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2017/01/172017/01/16

Norie Huddle: Surveillance State Repeal Act — a Non-Starter as Long as Most Members Work for the Military-Industrial Complex

Police State USA Finally Gains the Attention of Congress, Bipartisan Bill Will Kill PATRIOT Act

Aptly named the Surveillance State Repeal Act, the bill, if enacted, would be the single biggest legislative check against the unwarranted government overreach and draconian surveillance of Americans that has transpired subsequent the events of 9/11, while at the same time restoring our civil liberties.

The bill is looked at by congressional watchers as a non-starter, as there are far too many congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle in Congress that have strong interests in the Military/Intelligence Industrial Complex.

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2017/01/162017/01/13

Don Vandergriff: The US Army’s Poor Leadership — How Did It Get So Bad?

Ethics, Military

How did the US Army’s leadership problem grow so bad?

Summary: The US spends $600 billion on the US military (narrowly defined; almost a trillion broadly), yet repeatedly fails to defeat our poorly trained and equipped foes. In this chapter of our series asking “why”, Don Vandergriff points to ways the Army selects and promotes officers (its problems are usually about people; seldom about hardware). Tomorrow he discusses solutions.

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2017/01/162017/01/13

Don Vandergriff: Next Steps for Military Personnel Reform

Ethics, Military

Next Steps for Military Personnel Reform

Mandy Smithberger, 19 September 2016

Ten years ago the Center for Defense Information published Raising the Bar: Creating and Nurturing Adaptability to Deal with the Changing Face of War. Written by Straus Military Reform Project Advisory Board Member Major Donald E. Vandergriff, USA (ret.), the book has been used in numerous courses, including in the Department of Military Instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and remains a pivotal reform text. This spring Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s attempts to modernize the military, an initiative called “Force of the Future,” have been largely rejected. We interviewed Vandergriff for his thoughts on the next steps for military reform.

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2017/01/162017/01/13

Don Vandergriff: Personnel Reform and Military Effectiveness

Ethics, Military

The following piece was first published in August 2015 by POGO’s Center for Defense Information.

Warfare is first and foremost a human endeavor. Wars are fought by people using their minds; weapons are only tools to implement people’s ideas. It is people, and the ideas they wield, that make the difference between a sharp, decisive victory like Desert Storm and a slow, deadly slog like World War I. Fostering the right ideas requires a culture of Mission Command. But in today’s military, harmful personnel practices preclude such a culture.

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2017/01/142017/01/18

Robert Steele: Donald Trump’s Future — Over Reince Priebus’s Dead Body…

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

As things now stand, Donald Trump will not finish his first term. This will be Donald Trump's fault — and Reince Priebus' fault.

I explicitly accuse Reince Priebus of betraying Donald Trump by sacrificing the protection of Donald Trump and the longer-term healing of the country to Priebus's own vested interests in protecting the short-term triumph of the Republican Party, and the pedophile Establishment of which Priebus is at a minimum an enabler and protector if not an actual participant, not only in relation to the nation-wide pedophilia cabal, but the Wisconsin and Wyoming axis of impunity that will show the Franklin Scandal in Nebraska to be the teaser that it was.

I explicitly accuse Priebus of favoring the two-party tyranny that hates Donald Trump and controls 30% of the eligible voters, over an Electoral Reform Act that would legitimize Donald Trump with the 26% who voted against him and the 47% who did not vote at all, and in so doing, empower Trump beyond the two-party tyranny, allowing Trump to survive the inevitable demise of the Republican Party.

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2017/01/142017/01/13

Glistening Deepwater: Piloting the Planet

Earth Intelligence

Who Will Pilot the Planet to Safety?

Our planet is being poorly managed to the detriment of all living beings, a situation which must be faced head on if humanity hopes to continue to exist into the long term. Whilst this may at face value seem an extreme position, there is in fact a body of considered research in a number of fields to back up the statement. The working title of this project suggests that, using the analogy of the earth as a life sustaining “space ship”, there appears to be no-one actively, consciously, or responsibly on the flight deck. What it seems we need is a process by which the guidance systems for continuance of higher intelligent life can be activated, and populated. This is a call to action for fellows and funding so this project can produce complete documentation as soon as possible. Website: http://i-imagineer.info/planet-pilot/

2017/01/142017/01/13

Michel Bauwens: A New Post-Capitalist Ecosystem of Value Creation

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

A new post-capitalist ecosystem of value creation

How to build the world we want within the world we want to transcend.

The peer-to-peer capacity to relate to each other over the Internet entails the emergence of what Yochai Benkler in the The Wealth of Networks called ‘commons-based peer production' (CBPP). CBPP is a new pathway of value creation and distribution, where peer-to-peer infrastructures allow individuals to communicate, self-organize and, ultimately, co-create non-rivalrous use value, in the form of digital commons of knowledge, software and design.