Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Journal: End Poverty to End Population Growth

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 09 Justice, 10 Security, Earth Intelligence
Berto Jongman Recommends...

Visualizing Global Population Growth

Hans Rosling

Posted: Sep 4, 2010

The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth.

This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you’ll see).

Watch the 10 Minute Video from TED:  Hans Rosling on global population growth

Phi Beta Iota: This is consistent with the report of the UN High-Level Threat Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, which identified POVERTY as the top threat to humanity, in part because it spawns everything else including Infectious Disease (#2), Environmental Degradation (#3, the poor doing more damage than all the corporations on the planet), and so on. See also:

Review: A More Secure World–Our Shared Responsibility–Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
Review: Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Design for the Other 90% Exhibit + “Micro-Giving” Global Needs Index to Connect Rich to Poor/Fullfill Global-to-Local Requests
Review: Building Social Business–The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
Review: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid–Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Hardcover)
Review: Revolutionary Wealth (Hardcover)
Review: State of the World 2010–Transforming Cultures–From Consumerism to Sustainability
Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach
Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game
Search: Strategic Analytic Model

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Worth a Look: Transformation Through Education & Training–NATO’s Emergent Approach

Worth A Look

Transformation Training

Education and training

NATO conducts education and training to ensure its forces are effective and interoperable, as part of its cooperation with non-member countries, and as part of NATO-led operations.

Historically, NATO education and training has been focused on ensuring that military forces from member countries can work together effectively in operations and missions. Today, NATO education and training functions have expanded significantly. NATO has a network of training schools and institutions, conducts regular exercises and runs training programmes as far away as Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa.

The three main purposes are to enhance the interoperability and effectiveness of NATO-led multinational forces, assist Partner countries in their reform efforts, and help bring peace and stability to crisis-hit areas.

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Journal: CIA Loves Blackwater; Arizona Ungovernable in South; Coast Guard Learns and Morphs from Katrina; Israeli Black Propaganda?

Cultural Intelligence

Marcus Aurelius Recommends

Blackwater Won Contracts Through A Web Of Companies. CIA mafia, illegal arms, 31 companies to deceive US Government, owner moves family to Abu Dhabi.

Signs in Arizona warn of smuggler dangers. Feds post 15, south Arizona now “ungovernable zone.”

For Coast Guard, Katrina's lessons are carried on. Overview in human interest context of how Katrina changed Coast Guard, relevant to BP Gulf disaster.

Israeli Black Propaganda?

Child Stealing Bread in Iran Gets Arm Crushed.

Phi Beta Iota: photo part of a collage, not properly sourced and possibly Israeli black propaganda. Normally the hand is cut off, no padding is needed, and we're not sure a child would receive this kind of punishment under these circumstances. Provided as indicator of what is being circulated across US military emails.  There is probably a half-pipe cradling the arm and hidden by the towel.  Cars do not mangle or even completely crush.  The absence of the after photo showing real damage is significant to us.

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Search: quantum information phd 2010

Searches

We really appreciate searches as pointers, especially so now that we have had to turn off comments to avoid hijacking by Russian spammers.  This is an inspiring search, here are a few links it led us to.

Wikipedia on Quantum Information (see excellent table of links)
QIP 2010 – 13th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (slides, other outputs)
Calendar of Quantum Meetings (including one in Iran on Quantum Information)
Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information & Quantum Theory 2010 (PDF Book Catalog, 16 pages)

Quantum Information is not the same as Computational Mathematics, where Google is in the forefront.  Both suffer from a lack of attention to sense-making and a general avoidance of attention to the Internet Economy Meta Language (IEML) being developed by Pierre Levy, a Collective Intelligence thought-leader.  While mathematics may be inherently non-lingual, concepts and sense-making demand an appreciation for language that is lacking in mathematics–this is why no one of weight is helping advance the World Brain & Global Game.

Wikipedia on Computational Mathematics
Stephen E. Arnold, The Google Trilogy
Pierre Levy, Internet Economy Meta Language (IEML)
Robert Steele, HUMAN INTELLIGENCE: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (2010)
Robert Steele, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (2010)

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Journal: Australian Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politician

Cultural Intelligence

Full Story Online

Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politician

(Reuters) – A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday.

Wilders told Reuters it was “really terrible news” and that he was taking it seriously.

“I will ask for clarification from the Dutch minister of interior/justice why the secret service and anti-terrorism unit NCTb have not informed me before and what the consequences will be for me,” he said in an email.

. . . . . . .

Wilders is currently on trial in the Netherlands for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.

Tip of the Hat to G. B. at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: The Netherlands is close to the Nordics in its reasoned governance, but even this great country can make mistakes.  As Howard Bloom discusses so well in Global Brain–The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, what children learn by the age of five to seven is life-defining.  If the government fails to educate the multi-cultural respect it aspires to, then it has to respect the concerns of its citizens who fear unassimilated resident as well as transient Muslims. This is one reason why Phi Beta Iota believes that education, intelligence, and research should be under a single Secretary-General who is co-equal to two others, one for Commonwealth and one for External Relations and Security.

See Also:

Review: While Europe Slept–How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (Hardcover)

Journal: Muslim Tide Arousing US Heartland Anger But Loss of Moral Legitimacy Via Israel and Loss of National Intelligence Shackles America

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Religion

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Journal: General Petraeus–Human Terrain Team NOT

08 Wild Cards, Cultural Intelligence, Methods & Process, Military, Peace Intelligence
"Is that HTT crawling across the rug over there?"

Did Gen. David Petraeus just call the Human Terrain System worthless? With a few choice sentences to the Wall Street Journal, the top commander in Afghanistan highlighted the disconnect between what the Army’s social science program is supposed to be doing — and what’s actually happening in the field.

“We have never had the granular understanding of local circumstances in Afghanistan that we achieved over time in Iraq,” Petraeus told the Journal. “One of the key elements in our ability to be agile in our activities in Iraq during the surge was a pretty good understanding who the power brokers were in local areas, how the systems were supposed to work, how they really worked.”

Phi Beta Iota: The General fails to recollect that under the Cheney-Bremer regime, all were told to ignore the imams and tribal leaders.  It was only much later, after five years of failure, more or less, than some bright general decided to get back to basics.  As Winston Churchill liked to say, “The Americans always do the right thing, they just try everything else first.”  HTT has been a known failure since its inception.  For one view of how it should fit in with the other fourteen slices of Human Intelligence (HUMINT), see the new monograph from the Strategic Studies Institute,  Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (June 2010).    See also John Stanton on HTT Failures.

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Journal: Libertarian Perspective on Intelligence

Academia, Civil Society, Government

Michael Ostrolenk Recommends

September 2, 2010

Remind Me Again Why We Pay the Intelligence Bureaucracy?

Posted by Karen Kwiatkowski on September 2, 2010 06:48 PM

This detailed geo-statistical analysis entitled “The Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs 2004-2009″ has been published, not much more than a month after Wikileaks made available to the world six years of Afghanistan records and reports. The study was honestly, scientifically, and nimbly completed and published at no direct cost to the intelligence community. It was made possible by the decentralization, fluidity, and constant sharing and shifting of roles and responsibilities that comprise the Internet. As I read through this lucid analysis, I recalled the recently published Washington Post project, Top Secret America. Both the Post and the researchers in “Fog of War” tried to be careful not to step on government toes, but the very process and existence of these kinds of analyses are cause for great optimism, and provide a strong justification to radically slash government spending on intelligence that the state has proven to be unable to use effectively.

Phi Beta Iota: Michael Ostrolenk, our newest contributing editor, is a Libertarian with a very broad range of policy interests and an innate desire to use the taxpayer dollar wisely.  The cited item leads to two different pdf files, each with multiple color-coded maps.

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