Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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NATO Crowd-Sourcing Future

Crowd-Sourcing, NATO Civ-Mil Ctr
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Seriously. NATO Transformation Command, based in Norfolk, Virginia and previously known as Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic, wants to crowd-source the future. They have a strategic foresight initiative that is hot right now, and anyone can sign up to have an account and express their views on Economics, Environment, Technology, and more. These are serious people with good intentions. Got brain? Take it for a drive at the Innovation Hub. Right now. This stage CLOSES on 23 June. Contributors get to join in the video discussion 24-26 June 2015. The possibility of personal thank you letters is being discussed. Do this.  Now.  Please. http://innovationhub-act.org/

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Graham Fuller: USA Dangerous in Decline

Peace Intelligence
Graham Fuller
Graham Fuller

Dangers of a Declining Global Power

EXTRACT

The decline of US power abroad cannot be separated from many domestic failings: deadlocked governance, bloated military budgets and their huge opportunity costs, the rise of the military-industrial-security state and its massive cash infusions into Congress; an impoverished political spectrum that begins on the moderate right of center (Obama) and caroms on over into various degrees of crazy right. There is virtually no left of center—indeed the very word “left” borders on the obscene in the American political lexicon. And we have the intellectual isolation and distortion inherent in America’s vision of the rest of the world. A “mainstream” corporate-dominated media that shields the population from distasteful global realities. The belief that America itself represents “reality.” The security-state mentality that promotes paranoia and fear. The belief that the American imperium is ageless, on an eternal mission without bounds, fundamentally benign, and a universal good.

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SchwartzReport: Teenagers Losing Confidence in America

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Whatever lies we tell ourselves about how we love our children by almost any objective social outcome measure it is screamingly obvious that while, at least in some cases, we may love our particular child children as a generality are not loved much at all. Compared to other advanced technological societies the state of children in the U.S. is an untold scandal. Is it surprising then, that the young are losing confidence in their country? Here is some real data. What becomes of a country whose young have abandoned their nation's motivating dream?

Teenagers Are Losing Confidence in the American Dream

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CounterPunch: Fukushima – The Real Story

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Secrets

counterpunch goodThe Real Story: What’s Really Going on at Fukushima?

by ROBERT HUNZIKER

Fukushima’s still radiating, self-perpetuating, immeasurable, and limitless, like a horrible incorrigible Doctor Who monster encounter in deep space. Fukushima will likely go down in history as the biggest cover-up of the 21st Century. Governments and corporations are not leveling with citizens about the risks and dangers; similarly, truth itself, as an ethical standard, is at risk of going to shambles as the glue that holds together the trust and belief in society’s institutions. Ultimately, this is an example of how societies fail.

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SchwartzReport: USG Held in Low Esteem

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

No government, particularly no democracy, can long endure when it is held in contempt by the people whose interests it is supposed to represent. Yet month after month, and now year after year that is exactly what is happening, as this Gallup study makes clear.  And yet the subject is hardly mentioned by media or campaigners.

Confidence in U.S. Branches of Government Remains Low

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in each of the three branches of the U.S. government remains low, with confidence in Congress and the Supreme Court near their all-time lows reached last year. Currently, 33% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the presidency, 32% are this confident in the Supreme Court, and Congress is still well behind, at 8%.

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Holy Father: Climate Change Encyclical

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Most Holy Father Francis
Most Holy Father Francis

Pope Francis' Climate Change Encyclical Just Leaked. Here's What It Says.

Humans are causing climate change, and there will be “grave consequences” if we don't act fast, warns the pope.

Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of this century, according to a leaked draft of a papal encyclical. In a document released by an Italian magazine on Monday, the pontiff will warn that failure to act would have “grave consequences for all of us.”

Francis also called for a new global political authority tasked with “tackling…the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions.” His appeal echoed that of his predecessor, pope Benedict XVI, who in a 2009 encyclical proposed a kind of super-UN to deal with the world's economic problems and injustices.

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