Category: Communities of Practice

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Berto Jongman: Charles Lewis on 935 Lies – Can A Democracy Lie to Death?

Corruption, Government
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Great interview.

Can a democracy die of too many lies?

BOOK: 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity

Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction has always been a formidable challenge, often with real life and death consequences. But now it is more difficult and confusing than ever. The Internet Age makes comment indistinguishable from fact, and erodes authority. It is liberating but annihilating at the same time.

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Yoda: Promise Language – Language of Commerce Rooted in Trust and Reputation

Commerce, Ethics
Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Promise Language – The Language of Commerce

Open source, free marketplace software.

How does one gain trust without an authority?

Commerce between anonymous people is possible with a P2P database and open source.

A public record of one's previous transactions is reputation.

This is exchange software, payment processing software, and procurement software.  It provides reputation, but does much more than that.  Anything of value can be traded freely.  Value-added services can be provided by new and existing companies.  It works with today's companies and allows new ones to thrive.

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Mini-Me: T-Mobile Criminal Business As Usual — 100s of Millions of Dollars in Bogus Texting Charges

03 Economy, 09 Justice, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
Who? Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

T-Mobile took ‘100s of millions of dollars' from bogus txt charges – Feds

Network CEO slams FTC, FCC allegations as baseless

>By Shaun Nichols

The Register, 1 Jul 2014

T-Mobile US was accused today of slapping bogus text-message charges worth hundreds of millions of dollars on customers' bills.

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Mini-Me: 50% of US Troops in Chronic Pain on Opioids

07 Health, Military
Who, Mini-Me?
Who, Mini-Me?

Huh?

Half of American Combat Soldiers in Chronic Pain Use Opioids

About half of the American soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan return home to the U.S. in chronic pain, according to a new study that also found about one in seven soldiers were using opioid pain relievers.

The study, the first to assess the prevalence of chronic pain and opioid use in the infantry after combat deployment, is being published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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2014 Robert Steele On Defense Intelligence – Seven Strikes

Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Ineptitude, Military, Office of Management and Budget, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Threats, True Cost
Robert Steele
Robert Steele

On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes

I consider defense intelligence today to be incoherent and ineffective. It has no grasp of the totality of the threat; it is largely worthless in providing SecDef with evidence-based decision support relevant to strategy, policy, acquisition, and operations; and it does not help DoD within the Cabinet when decision-support is needed to keep the Department of State honest (on the Afghan run-off election, for example), or to make the case for Whole of Government (USG) alternatives to military employment, particularly in the critical peaceful preventive measures and post-war stabilization & reconstructions domains.

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Mini-Me: Confidence in US Government Plummets

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Who? Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

Poll: Confidence in government plummets

Kendall Breitman

Politico.com, 30 June 2014

Americans are losing confidence in all three branches of government, as confidence in the Supreme Court and Congress has dropped to record lows and the White House has hit a six-year dip, according to a new poll.

In a Gallup poll released Monday, 30 percent of Americans expressed confidence in the Supreme Court, 7 percent in Congress and 29 percent in the presidency.

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