Jean Lievens: Community Land Trusts and the Commons

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

New Report Explores Community Land Trusts and the Commons

In a new report, Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty, authors of the book The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, explore the connection between community land trusts and the Commons.

Community Land Trusts, Urban Land Reform and the Commons is broken into three articles that cover different aspects of the connection and provide a “crash course” in community land trusts, cooperative land banks, and how “practical land reform can be systematically implemented to return land to the Commons.”

Berto Jongman: Obama Stonewalls SEAL 6 Crash Probe

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Obama stonewalls SEAL Team 6 helicopter crash probe, watchdog says

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They believe SEAL Team 6 had a target on its back and that persons inside the Afghan National Security Forces may have tipped off the Taliban that night in Tangi Valley. That is why, they say, a fighter just happened to be stationed in a turret within 150 yards of a landing zone that had never been used before.

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CounterPunch: Mike Whitney on Trump’s Triumph + Matt Taibbi & More

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

2009 Intelligence for the President--AND Everybody ElseTrump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System

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Moneybags capitalist loudmouth explains to 80 million dumbfounded Americans watching prime time TV, that the system is a total fraud, that the big money runs everything, and that even he thinks the system is broken.

How do you beat that? Seriously, my wife and I were laughing and high-fiving and like we just won the lottery.

Thanks for that, Don. We owe you one.

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Yoda: Turkey & Iran Convergence, Off-Set to Sunni Extremism — Can Secular Pragmatism Create One Prosperous Muslim Faith?

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Got Crowd? BE the Force!

De-Americanization?

Iran, Turkey must work together to fight IS: Rouhani

TEHRAN: Iran and Turkey must work with one another to root out the threat of extremism in the region, President Hassan Rouhani told his Turkish counterpart, the official IRNA news agency reported.“A consolidation and expansion of ties between Tehran and Ankara is of paramount importance to us,” he said.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google Begins to Understand Very High Cost of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google: Technical Debt Has Implications for Some AI Cheerleaders

If you are interested in smart software, you may want to read “Machine Learning: the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.” I like the credit card analogy. It combines big costs with what some folks see as a something-for-nothing feature of the modern world. … The paper identifies specific cost points which most MBAs happily ignore or downplay in post mortems of failed search and content processing companies. The whiz kids, both boys and girls, rationalize their failure to deal with shifting boundaries, “dark dependencies,” expensive spaghetti, and the tendency of smart software to sort of drift off center.

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