Dr. Dr. Dave Warner Departing Afghanistan

Cultural Intelligence
Dr. Dr. Dave Warner Click on Image to Enlarge
Dr. Dr. Dave Warner
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Our hero. Dr. Dr. as we call him (PhD and MD) has for decades been the lone voice in the wilderness trying to bring DoD into the 21st Century with open source tools that could be shared with non-military elements that control 80% of the relevant foreign language and ground truth information not available via closed sources and closed communications.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Business Intelligence Tools — Not There

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Open Source Business Intelligence Tools: A Narrow View

Last week, a person with considerable experience in business intelligence told me that interest in open source software applicable to intelligence purposes was evident in South America. I poked around and came across “5 Open Source business intelligence Tools.” I was hoping to learn about open source real-time translation tools, geo-coding components, and old-school search software that hooked into some next-generation analytics and visualization components.

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SchwartzReport: Death of the American Dream & Other Pathologies

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Five readers sent me this article this morning and told me they felt it perfectly described their lives, and their sense of entrapment. I just hate this trend, but facts are facts.

Economist: I’ve crunched the numbers, and the American Dream is dead

“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden,” Clark said. “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility, is because it is shattering people’s dreams.”

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Chris Wagner: Future Directions Early Thoughts

Advanced Cyber/IO
Chris Wagner
Chris Wagner

Future Directions and Open Everything (draft)

Micro and Macro

Human culture is a reflection of the human body

  • A set of senses and muscles (culturally so many sensors and effectors )
  • Nourishment and waste in opposite directions in the bloodstream (freeways)
  • A brain of many cells connected via a nervous system (a culture of many brains connected via the internet)
  • A body has a micro-biome, survival by interaction with other life (a culture has a biosphere)
  • Ethics – support all parts of the body (culturally support all people)
  • Recursion at multiple levels

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Anthony Judge: Adhering to God’s Plan in a Global Society

Cultural Intelligence
Anthony Judge
Anthony Judge

Adhering to God's Plan in a Global Society

Serious problems framed by the Pope from a transfinite perspective

Introduction
Authoritative doublespeak?
Comprehension of planning in a global context
Visual representation of planning in a global context
Visually associating incommensurable worldviews and global plans
Distortion of global insight through planar projection
Interpreting exhortation to adhere to God's Plan
Conversion of a plan into a viable cognitive vehicle
Visual caricatures of the challenge of global governance
Relevance of astrophysics to perception of the gravity of global problems?
References

Mark Dixon: In Mexico, open government includes social justice, press freedom, and innovation

Access, IO Impotency
Mark Dixon
Mark Dixon

In Mexico, open government includes social justice, press freedom, and innovation

The Presidency of Mexico's national digital strategy coordinator, Alejandra Lagunes, speaks with Alex Howard about the country's plan for open government and digital innovation.

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