Graphic: How Much Water for Which Food?
01 Agriculture, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence, Earth Orientation, True CostTom Atlee: Co-Intelligent Need Satisfaction
Cultural Intelligence
The co-intelligent satisfaction of needs
All the activities of life can be viewed as efforts to satisfy fundamental needs. The specific things we think we want or desire are actually best viewed as attempts to satisfy those more fundamental needs that are universal and can be satisfied in so many different ways. However, some “satisfiers” are actually toxic and/or addictive, undermining other areas of our life and driving acquisitive cultures that are destroying our world and prospects for future generations. The co-intelligence worldview suggests that we seek to understand the life-dynamcs of “needs” and find ways to satisfy the needs of all involved at every level. This activity can look like conflict resolving peacemaking, like self-organizing democracy, like nature respecting sustainability, and many other good things many of us are already involved with. There is a tight bond between co-intelligence and the healthy satisfaction of needs. Practices like Nonviolent Communication and Human-scale Development are co-intelligent because they help us serve life in that way. And we can push the envelope even further…
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Berto Jongman: US Intelligence Veterans Slam Obama for Lies Against Russia in Relation to MH17 and the Ukraine
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Officers Call
The MH17 Crash: US Veteran Intelligence Officers Slam the Flimsy “Intelligence” Against Russia
Senior U.S. Intelligence Officers: Obama Should Release Ukraine Evidence
Preface: With the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine turning a local civil war into a U.S. confrontation with Russia, former high-level U.S. intelligence veterans released a statement today urging President Obama to release what evidence he has about the tragedy and silence the exaggeration and rush to judgment. (The whole post is a must-read; but we at Washington’s Blog have added bolding for emphasis.)
Entire memorandum below the fold.
Yoda: The Open Source Identity Crisis
Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Tip of the Saber to Charles Yaker.
The Open Source Identity Crisis
As the diversity in tech movement gains traction, open source faces an identity crisis.
EXTRACT
The first story we must look at is: who exactly is an open source contributor? The answer to this seems obvious enough. Open source contributors are hackers. The movement as a whole traces its roots back to Richard Stallman and the hackers at MIT in the late 70s. The hacker identity is a specialisation of the geek identity, which can be seen as a continuation of the scientist and mathematician archetype that stretches back centuries.
But this picture is wrong.
Berto Jongman: THREAT is Too Many Humanitarian Crises — Along with Corrupt Governments and Totally Inept International Aid System
01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Non-Governmental, Peace IntelligenceToo many humanitarian crises, not enough global resources
Commentary: An overwhelming number of crises means the international community cannot respond well.
WASHINGTON — Humanitarian crises in the world today — Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan and now Gaza — all demand immediate and massive humanitarian response.
The crises are not only large-scale, affecting millions, but the conflicts also are complex, each with unique political realities and on-the-ground difficulties.
They are not alone among crises competing for our attention. They are simply the biggest, pushing off the front pages other crises where human needs remain urgent: Darfur, Central America, Pakistan, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia.
SchwartzReport: Top Agribusiness Companies Poisoning Clean Water with Unlimited Garbage and Pesticide Dumping
01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, True Cost
This is one of the central failures of American corporate vampire capitalism. Because it only considers profit as a priority, polluting the water of a nation and putting the full spectrum of life at risk is no big deal, and they want to be allowed to continue it.
Top Agribusiness Food Companies Dumping Waste in Our Waters
ELIZABETH RENTER – Natural Society/Nation of Change
Companies like Tyson Foods, Cargill, Inc., and Perdue Farms Inc. dump their garbage-more than 206 million pounds of it-into our water almost every year and leave others to worry about the clean-up. Now, as the Environmental Protection Agency considers a rule to restore the Clean Water Act, these companies are pulling out all the stops to maintain their freedom to dump and pollute, regardless of the toxic outcomes.
Robert Steele: Rethinking Economics & Business Schools
Commercial Intelligence
I have had a blast developing an Open Source Everything Hub proposal for a major university outside the USA. The article that presents the proposal to the academic and policy worlds is under development and will be ready by 15 September. It's working title is
Open Source Everything,
Big Data & True Cost Economics:
Designing & Implementing Collaborative Democratic Capitalism
I am benefiting enormously from a wealth of unsolicited contacts and references that stem from the profile done by Nafeez Ahmed of The Guardian, as well as the interview in IEEE Computer, and follow-on interviews across multiple channels.
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