Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 2921 – Public Intelligence Blog

In a small study, parents ordered about 20 percent fewer calories for their kids when they chose from a menu with nutrition information on it, Dr. Pooja Tandon of the University of Washington and colleagues reported online in the journal Pediatrics.

“One hundred calories over time and at a population level is actually a significant amount in terms of being able to avert weight gain,” Tandon told MedPage Today.

Phi Beta Iota: This is noteworthy as an example of the importance of providing the public with “true cost” information at the point of every sale–not just of food, but of all products and services. What most businesses have not realizes that that the only sustainable business is one that is both green and attractive to an informed public. Advertising should NOT be a tax-deductible expense, providing truthful information about any product or service should be tax deductible.

2010/01/252010/01/25

Journal: Pope Takes to the Web

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence

Pope asks priests to become more Web savvy

The pope is asking priests to become more media savvy by preaching to the faithful from the Internet as well as the pulpit.

Pope Benedict XVI

(Credit: The Vatican)

In his message for the Catholic Church's 2010 World Day for Social Communications, Pope Benedict XVI called on the ministry to use the latest technologies, such as Web sites and blogs, to preach the gospel and encourage a dialogue with their practitioners.

2010/01/252010/01/25

Worth a Look: Citizen-Centered Talking Points Memo

Media, Worth A Look

Talking Points Memo is the flagship blog of TPM Media LLC, which also publishes TPMmuckraker, TPMDC, TPMtv and TPMCafe. Founder and editor Josh Marshall began publishing Talking Points Memo during the 2000 Florida vote recount. The site specializes in original reporting on government and politics and offers breaking news coverage, investigative reporting, high profile guest bloggers and a book club.

Talking Points Memo is one of the most innovative political news organizations in the country. Media watchers consider TPM the site to watch as the news business transforms from the old world of print to the online digital future. In March 2009 TPM topped TIME Magazine's list of 25 Best Blogs of 2009. “Talking Points,” wrote Time's editors, “has become the prototype of what a successful Web-based news organization is likely to be in the future.” And in September of 2009 The Atlantic listed founder Josh Marshall among the nation's 50 most influential commentators.

Phi Beta Iota: If we had to pick one source of citizen-centered political news that represents clarity, diversity, and integrity, it would be this one. Since we shy away from politically-oriented material and focus mostly on process, these folks get our vote as a righteous source of information.

2010/01/252011/02/09

Reference: Collapse in early Mesopotamian states–what happened and what didn’t

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

ABSTRACT: This paper presents examples of macro-societal change, the nature of social interaction in highly stratified societies, and principles of stability and instability in hierarchies, and it discusses the choices that humans, of high status and low, made and which affected their lives in the most profound ways.

CORE QUOTE: Stuart Kauffman (1993, 1995), working at the SFI, points out that systems that are too highly connected (or hypercoherent) can suffer a “complexity catastrophe” because the parts are too interdependent such that the impacts to one or some will cascade into others, an “avalanche of coevolutionary changes” (in a phrase echoing Bak's avalachnes of piles of sand). “Robust” systesm for Kauffman are those which are flexible enough to maintain “structural stability.”

2010/01/252010/01/25

Journal: USA Unemployment 17%

03 Economy

U.S Unemployment and Underemployment rate at 17 percent

A variety of sources are beginning to tell the truth about US unemployment. Here's the bottom line:

22.9 million people are unemployed, underemployed, or have given up looking.

2010/01/252010/01/26

Journal: Haiti–Italian Agrees with Brzezinki–A Mess

08 Wild Cards, Peace Intelligence

aa haiti praying — Please God, Send Us a Leader Who Understands Intelligence-Led Emergency Response and Believes Deeply in Stabilization & Reconstruction as a Righteous Multinational Engagement Mission

US criticised over Haiti aid as reconstruction talks begin

After two days of observations Mr Bertolaso told a RAI television interviewer that the relief effort showed that the international community was unable to mount an adequate disaster response and called for the appointment of a civilian international humanitarian co-ordinator.

He said the aid organisations, including United Nations bodies, wrongly thought Haiti was “another humanitarian catastrophe like Cambodia or Rwanda. They thought they could bring something to eat and drink and the problem would be resolved.”.

He added that the US military effort was “inefficient” and that troops were not trained to run an aid or disaster relief operation. “No-one is giving orders,” he said.

Asked by Lucia Annunziata, the RAI interviewer, if the rescue effort had been “a flop”, Mr Bertolaso — who holds Cabinet rank — said that the American decision to send large quantities of troops, cargo planes and aid was commendable. “However, when confronted by a situation of chaos, they tend to confuse military intervention with what should be an emergency operation, which cannot be entrusted to the armed forces. We are missing a leader, a co-ordination capacity that goes beyond military discipline.”

Journal: Haiti Rolling Directory from 12 January 2010

2010/01/25

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2002 New Rules for the New Craft of Intelligence (Book 2 Chapter 15)

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