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Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Sigfried Gold on 7 Reasons for Spiritual Progressives to Engage Humbly with Fundamentalists

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Rabbi Michael Lerner

7 Reasons for Spiritual Progressives to Engage Humbly with Fundamentalists

by: Sigfried Gold on November 12th, 2013 | 6 Comments »

Progressives deliver lofty words about embracing people who are different from us, but we often fail to put those words into practice when it comes to religious fundamentalists. In truth, there are many deep forms of spiritual wisdom that fundamentalists could share with us if we approached them with humility, care, and curiosity:

1. Fundamentalists go whole hog. They know what they believe. They know who’s right and who’s wrong. How do they do it? Do they do it about everything? Try asking a fundamentalist: What is it exactly that is fundamental for you? What are the commitments from which you will not budge? Are you able to stay open-minded on religious or political issues outside these commitments? Different fundamentalists will have different answers, of course. But it’s no betrayal of our own commitment to open-mindedness to consider emulating fundamentalists if we find something worth emulating. Which of our own beliefs are we willing to throw ourselves into without reservation? On what are we willing to take a stand from which we will not budge?

2. Fundamentalists have faith. Some of what they believe they believe without objective, empirical evidence, or even against scientific evidence. Are we able to see that they embrace faith not out of stupidity or ignorance but because their faith is confirmed by what they perceive as some deeper spiritual evidence? Can we see the ways that a demonstrably irrational faith can be motivated by entirely reasonable and real concerns and needs? Faith is not simply a choice to believe something without evidence. It begins as an experiment: “What happens if I try believing X?” And when something good happens, it grows. Are we interested in cultivating our own faith? Faith in what?

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Eagle: Black Friday’s Two-Way War on the Poor

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 11 Society
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

Black Friday’s two-way war on the poor | New York Post

This week, America will kick off the sixth holiday-shopping season since the economy melted down in 2008. As everyone sits down to be thankful Thursday, too many people are still struggling to recover. Here’s a free-market way that everyone can show their concern about inequality: Don’t shop on Thanksgiving.

More than half a decade on, we’re still missing 976,000 jobs — and we’re missing 12 million jobs if you figure that jobs should grow as the population grows.

But it’s one thing to be economically afraid. It’s another to be cut off from fully celebrating America’s all-race, all-religion family holiday because you and your fellow Americans are fearful economically.

That’s what’s happening to millions of retail workers who’ve had to work on Thanksgiving for the past half-decade.

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Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

BIG IDEA: 13 Year Old Radically Improves Solar Panel Efficiency with Design

BIG IDEA: We have to learn Chinese – many core Chinese concepts do not translate

CRIME: Corporate Orgy of Thieves

CRIME: Mainstreaming Sexual Perversion

CYBER: Coming tech lash

CYBER: NSA Goal to Master Cyber Intelligence

CYBER: NSA SIGINT Strategy 2012-2016

CYBER: Surveillance threatens web

DATA: Missing data — why most models are empty fluff

DRONES: Pakistan ISI Lists Drone Victims

IRAN: Al Jazeera with Seven Questions Beyond the Nuclear Deal

IRAN: Cordesman opines

IRAN: Cyber capabilities

SPYING: Singapore and South Korea Silent Partners with Five Eyes

SPYING: True Cost of Unintelligence Intelligence (Gareth Evans)

TERROR: Anjem Choudary & al-Muhajiroun in UK

WAR: Where have all the peace treaties gone?

 

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Jean Lievens: What We Need in NextGen Social Network – The Next Web (Facebook Is For Grandparents)

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen social network

By , Sunday, 24 Nov '13 , 10:25pm

It’s time to move on. The feeling is becoming more and more significant with each passing day and it just keeps spreading.

It’s just not it any more… we want something new, exciting, which can take us places we’ve never been. We want to be surprised again. We want a new, better social network.

Facebook may say its user base is growing, but original members from the last decade appear to be leaving in droves. As more niche networking services and platforms enter the space, people are finding that not any one company is serving all of their networking needs. Our tastes and channels are becoming fragmented, and users are pushing back on accepted norms in the social media space.

This is inevitable. It’s a natural life cycle for any product; unless it somehow becomes a living organism with its own reproductive system and evolution, one will eventually wither and die. Facebook cannot evade this process – it regenerates with nuances, but is not reinventing itself.

Facebook today doesn’t resemble a thriving, living metropolis – it’s more of a friendly neighborhood bar. For that reason, FB will face its cruel destiny of simply fading away. Living in the same city as your parents is forgiven and acceptable; there is enough diversity and distance between everyone. But finding yourself sitting in the same bar as your mom and dad – that’s horrifying. When your father posts pictures of sunsets and breakfast on his wall you know it’s over.

The conclusion is undeniable; a new social network is needed. These are the things that will make it awesome and sustainable:

Read full article for details.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Mats Bjore and SILOBREAKER

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Exclusive Silobreaker Interview: Mats Bjore, Silobreaker

With Google becoming more difficult to use, many professionals need a way to locate, filter, and obtain high value information that works. Silobreaker is an online service and system that delivers actionable information.

The co-founder of Silobreaker said in an exclusive interview for Search Wizards Speaks says:

I learned that in most of the organizations, information was locked in separate silos. The information in those silos was usually kept under close control by the silo manager. My insight was that if software could make available to employees the information in different silos, the organization would reap an enormous gain in productivity. So the idea was to “break” down the the information and knowledge silos that exists within companies, organizations and mindsets.

And knock down barriers the system has. Silobreaker’s popularity is surging. The most enthusiastic supporters of the system come from the intelligence community, law enforcement, analysts, and business intelligence professionals. A user’s query retrieves up-to-the-minute information from Web sources, commercial services, and open source content. The results are available as a series of summaries, full text documents, relationship maps among entities, and other report formats. The user does not have to figure out which item is an advertisement. The Silobreaker system delivers muscle, not fatty tissue.

Mr. Bjore, a former intelligence officer, adds:

Silobreaker is an Internet and a technology company that offers products and services which aggregate, analyze, contextualize and bring meaning to the ever-increasing amount of digital information.

Underscoring the difference between Silobreaker and other online systems, Mr. Bjore points out:

What sets us apart is not only the Silobreaker technology and our commitment to constant innovation. Silobreaker embodies the long term and active experience of having a team of users and developers who can understand the end user environment and challenges. Also, I want to emphasize that our technology is one integrated technology that combines access, content, and actionable outputs.

The ArnoldIT team uses Silobreaker in our intelligence-related work. We include a profile of the system in our lectures about next-generation information gathering and processing systems.

You can get more information about Silobreaker at www.silobreaker.com. A 2008 interview with Mr. Bjore is located at on the Search Wizards Speak site at http://goo.gl/f7niAH.

Stephen E Arnold, November 25, 2013

Phi Beta Iota: We also use SILOBREAKER and recommend it to the US Government, among others.  We do not use Palantir (nor will we ever) and we are in the process of disengaging from all aspects of Google. Integrity matters. SILOBREAKER has integrity where others fall short.

See Also:

Mats Bjore at Phi Beta Iota

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4th Media: We Do Not Make This Stuff Up… + False Flag Meta-RECAP

07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence

4th media croppedAmericans Are Finally Learning About False Flag Terror

Governments Admit They Carry Out False Flag Terror

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Governments from around the world admit they carry out false flag terror:

  • A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson
  • Soviet leader  Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939, and declared that the fire originated from Finland as a basis launching the Winter War four days later
  • Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)
  • The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister

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SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

03 Economy, 07 Health, 09 Justice, 11 Society

schwartzreport newBecause industrial agriculture controls the agencies that are supposed to regulate it, we do precious little of the research that should be taking place regarding the industry's use of chemicals. The result, as usual, is wealth for the few and degraded wellness for the many.

Epidemiological Evidence: Glyphosate at the Root of Many Diseases
ROSEMARY MASON MB CHB FRCA – Farm Wars

Full Report

Here is a major reason why we are facing the crisis of superbugs; the other being the grotesque over-use of pharmaceuticals in industrial animal husbandry. As with climate change it is greed of the few pitted against the wellness of the many. The misuse of our own technologies is destroying our world. This problem exists because of thousands upon thousands of little thoughtless decisions. Never, ever, flush drugs down the toilet.

Only Half of Drugs Removed by Sewage Treatment
BRIAN BIENKOWSKI – Scientific American

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