Reference: Diversity of Voices & Values

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Robert David SteeleRobert David Steele

Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design

Posted: December 21, 2010 08:27 A

Diversity of Voices & Values (Huffington Post)

Poor No Labels. A million dollars wasted, all because the donors and the recipients are so out of touch with America they simply don't “get” the fact that the two-party tyranny is a “walking dead man,” and a diversity of voices & values has emerged across America and around the world.

With today's posting, I point to twelve of the lists of books reviews from Book Review Lists (Positive). For each list, I highlight two books from within that list. My intent is to demonstrate that America does not lack for authentic, coherent, integral voices & values — right now it lacks for honest leadership. Labels or No Labels, America has no leaders worth a warm bucket of spit. From wing-nuts to buffoons to frauds, we have no bench. The time has come, in my view, to retire an entire generation of local, state, and national “leaders,” and to make way for the younger generation, the digitally literate generation, for whom secrecy is a connectivity outage to be routed around.

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Book Reviews on Conscious, Evolutionary, Integral Activism & Goodness

Review: Evolutionary Activism by Tom Atlee

Review: Society's Breakthrough!-Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People

Book Reviews on Dialog for Truth & Reconciliation

Review: All Rise-Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity

Review: The Power of the Powerless-Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe

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Reference: Private Military Corporations–A Non-State Actor-Nuclear Terror Nexus?

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Full Paper Online
Private Military Corporations: A Non-State Actor-Nuclear Terror Nexus?

Robert L. Brown
Temple University

August 16, 2010

Abstract:

The risk of nuclear terrorism is hyped by some as possible and high consequence (Allison 2006) while others dismiss the strategy as too difficult and too risky for terrorist organizations (Jenkins 2008). However, analysts have no data from which to directly analyze the probability of terrorist acquisition and use. One methodological solution is to extend the range analysis to include analogous cases: private military corporations (PMCs) are one class of non-state actors (NSAs) who may possess the capacity and autonomy to pose a risk of nuclear terrorism for their state masters. I find that the while the technical and military capabilities of PMCs may be greater than those of terrorist organizations with respect to nuclear weapon construction or delivery, they are still be insufficient (and PMCs must also somehow acquire fissile materials). Also, PMCs benefit from agency slack, as demonstrated by Blackwater’s performance in Iraq, but this autonomy does not appear sufficient to carry out an illicit nuclear plot. Therefore, PMCs may be more capable than most terrorist organizations if they sought to acquire nuclear weapons but they are still unlikely to succeed.

Keywords: Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Private Military Corporations, Blackwater, Xe

Working Paper Series
Brown, Robert L., Private Military Corporations: A Non-State Actor-Nuclear Terror Nexus? (August 16, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1659785

See Also:

David Isenberg, Jack Bauer Beats Blackwater, Huffington Post 20 december 2010

Journal: Near-Term Demise of Private Military Contractors

Wikileaks V Rolling Update CLOSED

02 Diplomacy, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Multinational, IO Secrets, Officers Call
Yvette Carnell

30 December 2010

Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears (BBC)

The WikiLeaks War on America (Commentary)

The Dark Side of Wikileaks (Atlanta Post)

Assange: I'll reveal info that will spark Arab world coups (YNETNews)

Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA (CBSNews)

WikiLeaks founder vows to release all files in case of death or incarceration (The Star)

Floyd Abrams Whizzes on WikiLeaks (Slate)

Wired journalists deny cover-up over WikiLeaks boss and accused US soldier (Guardian)

53 letters: Response to Wired's accusations (Salon)

FBI Raids Texas Server Farm for Clues to Anonymous Group, Operation Payback (eweek)

If Wikileaks Is About Cyberwar, Was The Pentagon Papers About A Wood Pulp War? (techdirt)

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NO LABELS Rolling Update CLOSED

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Source with Sass

Short-Cut:  http://www.tinyurl.com/NOLABELSNO

31 December 2010

‘No label' the new false flag (Examiner)

30 December 2010

Coffee Party 2.0: Similarities Between No Labels and Previous Incarnation Includes Extreme MSM Hype (newsbusters)

NO LABELS NO WINNER (Tucson Citizen)

29 December 2010

No Labels, but still sworn enemies (Boston Globe)

The Freak Show: It’s Time To Dump Democrats And Republicans (The Aquarian)

27 December 2010

The Power of Labeling (Human Events)

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Journal: A Glimpse Into Emergent Populist Intelligence

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Bruce Schuman

Tags Activist Altruist Centrist Coffee Party Communitarian Globalist Green Humanist Organizer Patriot Peacemaker Programmer Progressive Spiritual Theorist Transpartisan Universalist Volunteer Worker Writer

Issues Balanced judgment Church and state Citizen participation and engagement Cooperation Corporate power Fragmented or disjointed thinking Grassroots mobilization Inclusion Media Mistrust Money in politics National unity Partisanship in politics Spin and distortion The culture of blame and accusation The role of government The spirit of democracy Unscientific or irrational thinking Water Wisdom Women

Skills Community organizer Editor General computer skills Programmer – ColdFusion Programmer – MS SQL Database Special academic training and expertise Team leader Transpartisan politics Writer

Phi Beta Iota: Below the line is an email with several links that has been broadcast by and to what we think of as the “thinking man's kum-ba-ya crowd.”  They have not gotten a grip on public intelligence in the public interest yet, they are still crawling around the edges of structured organization.  Think of them as raw material for GroupOn.  A mix of naivete, scary, and inspiring.  Please also note, as Tom Atlee has emphasized, that CITIZENSHIP makes “transpartisanship” a moot if not a counter-productive term.  The Coffee Party is seriously over-hyped in the material that follows, but the spirit of the note is authentic and merits respect.

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