The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Happy Birthday, Robert. Sixty is the new forty–you've got another quarter century to achieve public intelligence in the public interest. Keep going!
Phi Beta Iota: Our founder turned 59 today, but agrees completely with the above sentiments, with thanks. Visit Mario's Cyberspace Station, the Global Intelligence News Portal.
From: Dan Drasin
Some say the internet is the only field of effective protest-activism left — in the face of intractable establishment power, the growing militarization of local police and so forth. That may be a bit melodramatic, but the hacker group Anonymous has been giving it a shot with their actions that started in June of this year. What I didn't know until I saw this video (uploaded July 7th) is that Anonymous claims to be rolling out a one-year, three-phase plan, of which the first phase recently concluded. Here's their video manifesto — full of sound, fury and gung-ho chest-beating, but also entertaining and provocative.
YouTube “What Are We Capable Of?
[Anon Press, 13 Minutes, 1 of 27 Videos]
Phi Beta Iota: The video is a blast–very professional, deeply developed. We are ALL “anonymous” in the face of tyranny. Anonymous Attack is the alter ego of Public Intelligence. When no one goes to jail for crashing the US Economy, the US Government loses all legitimacy and credibility. Lies are neither patriotic or helpful. Epoch A is crashing. Epoch B is emergent. Our focus is on non-violent intelligence (decision-support) with integrity in the public interest. In the face of the vastly more destructive actions of the governments and corporations, and the benign corrupt neglect of non-governmental organizations, we can understand digital destructive attacks in the name of public justice. Learn more about our public intelligence plan below. May God Bless and Preserve the American Republic as it was originally conceived, not as it has been corrupted. “Ideas are bullet-proof.”
Reference: Intelligence for the Spirit of Assisi
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2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
Scientists Turn to Crowds on the Web to Finance Their Projects
By THOMAS LIN
New York Times, July 11, 2011
In January, a time when many scientists concentrate on grant proposals, Jennifer D. Calkins and Jennifer M. Gee, both biologists, were busy designing quail T-shirts and trading cards. The T-shirts went for $12 each and the trading cards for $15 in a fund-raising effort resembling an online bake sale.
The $4,873 they raised, mostly from small donations, will pay their travel, food, lab and equipment expenses to study the elegant quail this fall in Mexico.
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In the crowd funding genus, MyProjects is a different species from Kickstarter. All projects on the site have been vetted by scientists and already receive financing from Cancer Research UK. And the funds are guaranteed regardless of whether the MyProjects goal is reached. Mr. Bromley calls it “substitutional funding.”
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The quail project was one of thousands that Cassie Marketos, a community editor at Kickstarter, has approved. “It’s one thing to buy a book about quails,” she said. “But to know that you played a small part in making it happen is a much different experience.”
Phi Beta Iota: The world is in an intermediary stage toward governing without government. The era of outrageous fraud, waste, and abuse–massive investments by the government of tax-payer funds on the basis of ideology or special interests, not intelligence with integrity–is coming to an end. Participatory democracy, alternative localized or specialized currencies that cannot be taxed, and intelligence-driven self-governance that is open to all stakeholders (Panarchy), are all emergent.
How Angry Moms Toppled the ‘World'
Influential British parenting website Mumsnet was instrumental in bringing down scandal-ridden News of the World. Bill Coles reports from London on the remarkable grassroots campaign.
Bill Coles, The Daily Beast, 10 July 2011
Curb the Corporate Agenda of Activist CEOs
Tell Your Members of Congress to Cosponsor the Shareholder Protection Act
The Shareholder Protection Act proposed by Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) would empower shareholders to vote on whether to allow corporate executives to spend corporate money on political campaigns. Shareholders — not the CEO and not the board of directors — are the real owners of any publicly traded corporation, and the decision should be theirs.
Dear friends,
As I was preparing another bulletin for you, I stumbled on a very remarkable initiative — a global curriculum reform movement — that I want to share right away. It seems a revolution is brewing in some parts of mainstream higher education. Here is a significant piece:
A “Science Daily” article “Higher Education Curricula Not Keeping Pace With Societal, Tech Changes” describes this “global movement to abolish the archaic disciplinary isolation and static teaching practices of the 19th and 20th centuries, and replace them with pedagogy that addresses the complexity and diversity of perspective of a global community in the 21st century.”
The epicenter of this movement is Curriculum Reform. A group of academics — from college students to university presidents — have created a Manifesto (see below) that has so far been endorsed by two universities in Europe and one in the U.S (Arizona State University, Jacobs University Bremen, and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg). These universities are now testing specific curricula based on the Manifesto's principles.
I am extremely impressed with the principles these academic innovators have come up with. More information is available at their website, including some excellent comments following the Manifesto itself.
If you are concerned about education and the state of the world, take a look, and spread the word…
Coheartedly,
Tom
Phi Beta Iota: Tom Atlee is the minister-mentor to all of us who strive to achieve collective intelligence and evolutionary consciousness. We urge support for his very personal commitment to his calling.
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The Curriculum Reform Forum is dedicated to disseminating thought leadership in the field of curricular reform in order to inspire local reform initiatives. It is a platform for global dialogue fostering the exchange of ideas as well as a resource offering concrete support to academic practitioners.
Inspired by this question of the father of Modern Skepticism we would like to approach contemporary curricular reform with the wisdom and fervour of an owl going into nosedive. You are invited to read our manifesto and join the conversation!
Phi Beta Iota: We have focused on Paradigms of Failure and on the loss of intelligence and integrity for decades. Now George Soros has had his aha moment. The Reflexive Movement is advancing on all fronts. Russell Ackoff smiles.
Below is the essence of the Manifesto:
In Career World, crossroads don't happen very often. Should I go to college? Which one? Should I quit this job? Where should I apply…
In Project World, on the other hand, every day offers a choice that could change things. Should you start a new project? Organize a conference? Open a new channel of social media? Quit something you're doing right now to make time for something else?
It's easy to get stressed and excited about the infrequent crossroads. It's just as easy to ignore the daily opportunities you have to change everything.
Phi Beta Iota: The status quo has failed. As Dr. Russell Ackoff would say, we cannot keep doing the wrong things righter. It's time to do the right thing. Integrity is the core value, M4IS2 is the method.
