Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1567 – Public Intelligence Blog

Francine Mestrum on Promoting the Social Commons

“All major international development organisations, from the World Bank over the ILO and the European Commission, plan to promote social protection in all developing countries. This may seem bizarre, since, at the same time, social protection mechanisms are being dismantled in the region where they first came about: Western Europe and Scandinavia. It is important to know, then, that words do not have the same meaning for all, and the ‘social protection’ of the World Bank is not the same as ‘social protection’, let us say in Sweden. In other words, there are no ‘welfare states’ emerging in Africa. But these plans are now being implemented and social movements have largely been absent from the debates. Where are the alternatives? What can we do to avoid social protection being at the service of markets?

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2014/03/28

Sepp Hasslberger: LED LiFi Doubles Data Transmit Speed

Advanced Cyber/IO

I think it would be a definite step forward for such a technology to get into wide use. The signal, transmitted through LED lightbulbs, is imperceptible to human eyes. Better than microwave…

LED LiFi Doubles Transmit Speed

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Robin Good: Find, Research, Cite, Link and Curate with the Excellent Google Research Tool

IO Tools

Find, Research, Cite, Link and Curate with the Excellent Google Research Tool

Google Research is a little-known sidebar available inside Google Drive documents and presentations which allows you to do just-in-time Google searches and to easily curate relevant results, including images, videos, text excerpts, links with full automatic attribution references, into the document or presentation you are preparing.

The Google Research sidebar facility can be called at anytime up by simply going to the Tools menu and selecting “Research” or by selecting any word in your text and then typing Ctrl+Alt+Shft+I.

Once in view, the mini Google Research sidebar, is ready to search across not just the Google standard web results, including news, images, videos and Google Scholar databases, but is also able to instantly filter and sort for you relevant Quotes, Dictionary items, as well as stuff from your own Google Drive documents and tables.

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2014/03/28

Danielle Villegas: The Future of Mobile Learning

04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, IO Sense-Making

29 Slides Online: The Future of Mobile Learning – Empowering Human Memory and Literacy

Highlights: “Mobile First” when designing any curriculum; e-learning (electronic) differs from s-learning (speech) and p-learning (paper); knowledge needs to be meta-datad into mobile-usable chunks; m-learning (mobile) is a far advance and distinct from e-learning; applicability and ease of access rule; important reference The Mobile Proposition for Education Report 2012; m-learning is a design challenge, a mind-set challenge.

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Eagle: Charles Hugh Smith on the Failure of the Keynesian Cargo Cult

03 Economy, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Idiocy

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Dear Keynesians: Your Sad Devotion to Your Failed Religion Hasn't Conjured Up a Recovery–Here's Why

That any schoolkid could predict eliminating feedback and consequences will lead to a series of disastrously poor choices by speculators and imprudent borrowers doesn't register with the Keynesian Cargo Cult.

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Marcus Aurelius: Bob Gates on Putin’s Challenge to the West — Insightful — and Dishonest by Omission

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Putin's Challenge to the West

Russia has thrown down a gauntlet that is not limited to Crimea or even Ukraine.

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SchwartzReport: Myth of Nuclear “Safety” and True Cost of Nuclear Power to Earth and to 99% — HORRENDOUS

05 Energy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy

Nuclear energy is clearest example we have of profit for the few trumping the wellbeing of the many. There is no need for this technology. When its true costs are calculated it is absurdly expensive and, nothing about it is unique except its exceptional danger and toxicity. Logically this technology should have been abandoned with the end of the cold war. But ! zombie-like it endures.

The Myth of Nuclear Safety: Fukushima Reveals That Nuclear Power Is Here to Stay
DONALD G. SCHWEITZER – Truthout