Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Tom Atlee: Michael Dowd’s 55 Interviews on the Future

Cultural Intelligence
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

The Future is Calling Us to Greatness

Without even realizing it, I’ve become part of an online conference made up of amazing interviews with amazing people, put together by my evolutionary friend Michael Dowd. I didn’t know I’d be in such illustrious company, but now I do and I’m delighted to introduce you to the opportunity to hear Michael’s interviews in which 55 really interesting (and often famous) people speak about their work, their worldviews, and their visions. It will all be free for two weeks starting late January into early February and after that will only cost $25 for the full set (including transcripts). Read more.

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Doug Bandow: Foreign Aid Does Not Work Because Government is Ignorant

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence
Doug Bandow
Doug Bandow

Foreign aid does not work. In the end, government doesn't know what it's doing.

Foreign Aid Is a Failure

Throwing good money at bad governments makes poor countries worse off.

from the January 2015 issue of Reason.com

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Jean Lievens: Greek Lessons — How Syriza (A Political Party) Might End European Central Banking Tyranny Plus Comment on Debt Renunciation and Embargos

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 11 Society, Ethics, Government
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Syriza can transform the EU from within – if Europe will let it

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Syriza promises first to achieve a substantial write-off of Greek debt and, second, to lift austerity by aiming for balanced budgets, instead of the surpluses demanded by the troika. It will reconnect families to the electricity network, provide food relief and shelter the homeless. It will take immediate action to reduce unemployment through public programmes. It is committed to lowering the enormous tax burden and to boosting public investment in an effort to accelerate growth.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data Quality Not Happening

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Mastering Data Quality Requires Change

Big data means big changes for data management and ensuring its quality. Computer users, especially those ingrained in their ways, have never been keen on changing their habits. Insert trainings and meetings, then you have a general idea of what it takes to install data acceptance. Dylan Jones at SAS’s Data Roundtable wrote an editorial, “Data Quality Mastery Depends On Change Management Essentials.”

Jones writes that data management is still viewed as a strict IT domain and data quality suffers from it. It required change management to make other departments understand about the necessity for the changes.

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SchwartzReport: Surveillance State — Good, Bad, Ugly

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Military
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is what the American Surveillance State looks like (publicly) to Europe. This is a German assessment published in one of Europe's leading publications. I confess I don't like my country being thought of in this way.

Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security

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Marcus Aurelius: The Real Reason For The Poor State Of Military Morale

Corruption, Military
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

A military with poor morale is a military that fights poorly.

The key factor is senior leadership that has not kept faith with its troops. The rest of the force that doesn’t live within the Washington, D.C., beltway feels that it is being ridden hard and put back wet so that the generals and admirals can claim success before civilian leaders in Congress and the White House. They have come to believe that they are expendable.

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