Mark Levin shows how the state legislatures, with no permission required from the feds, can amend the US Constitution. It's right there in Article V, and the historical record shows that the Founding Fathers meant for that Article to be used in a time like ours, when the feds have gone way beyond their Constitutionally granted authority.
Robert Steele: Homeland Security – The Much Bigger Picture
01 Poverty, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Homeland Security: The Much Bigger Picture
Homeland Security Today, May 26, 2015
By: Robert David Steele
As I scan the horizon across our homeland, what many of us think of as America the Beautiful, I cannot help but see something different — a troubled, even shocked, dysfunctional government, corrupt industry, the shallowness of our chattering class (academics, media and think tanks) and an apathetic citizenry.
From the perspective of a long-time intelligence professional – a former spy who helped create the Marine Corps Intelligence Center and spent 20 years as a CEO pioneering commercial intelligence – not only do most of the preconditions for revolution exist in America right now, but the federal government seems determined to ignore realities across the board.
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Pierre Cloutier: Quebec Heads for Independence UPDATE 1
08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence
Worth listening to very carefully. Listen specially at 1.53.03 in English. This is the first time a chief of the Parti Québécois says these things in English.
Phi Beta Iota: By 2025, no later, we expect Quebec, Scotland, Hawaii, and Vermont to be sovereign republics. If the USA wishes to retain its geographic integrity, it had better re-establish political integrity. Electoral reform is non-negotiable.
UPDATE 1: YouTube (2:32) English portion of Quebec Independence Speech
YouTube (2:06:44) Below the Line. HISTORIC.
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SchwartzReport: Iceland to End Bank Money Creation?
03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Ethics, Government
I follow Iceland because like the Scandanavian countries it is one of the nations where the new wellness oriented policies are developing. This one is very dramatic and will change the world's economy as it is more widely adopted. I don't think it will happen in America because the banks have so many liegemen in the Congress, as Paul Krugman points out.
Iceland looks at ending boom and bust with radical money plan
Icelandic government suggests removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank
Mongoose: Watching the Watchers
Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics
On stage, McGrath reiterated: “I think that open source intelligence is one of our biggest assets in understanding secret surveillance program because it’s something that can’t be shut down and it’s something that can be collected in a very decent decentralized fashion,” he said. “We have the potential to actually build a surveillance state that is a decentralize check on the surveillance state based on this open data.”
http://rt.com/usa/256285-republica-mcgrath-icwatch-database/
Robin Good: 15 Takeaways on the Future of Journalism by Jeff Jarvis CUNY
Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Media
Robin Good's insight:
At the recent International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, Jeff Jarvis, Professor of Journalism at CUNY, gave a keynote speech that provides valuable insight and advice as to where the future of news and journalism are headed.
Jeff Jarvis' Key 15 Takeaways on the Future of Journalism:
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Michael Kearns: Recommended Book “Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation”
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Communities of Practice, Ethics
Professor Shane O'Mara, Director of the Trinity College – Dublin Neuroscience Lab, is having his new book published. A very powerful message to the Bush OLC Lawyers who looked into SERE technuques… they damage the brain when applied over time.
Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does. …
For ethical reasons, there are no scientific studies of torture. But neuroscientists know a lot about how the brain reacts to fear, extreme temperatures, starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, and immersion in freezing water, all tools of the torturer’s trade. …
…if we want information that we can depend on to save lives, O’Mara writes, our model should be Napoleon: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.”
