The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Jason Liszkiewicz was based in New York City (2013) but has recently moved to China. He has served as the Executive Director of Earth Intelligence Network, the non-profit parent of Phi Beta Iota.
Click on the photograph to learn more about him.
Steele is the angel funder of both Earth Intelligence Network and Phi Beta Iota.
At this time the Reviews of Books are comprised largely of Steele's work as the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction. Guest reviews are occasionally added and non-fiction reviews of great depth are sought, particularly in relation to the ten high level threats to humanity and the twelve core policy areas, as well as the domain of corruption.
Steele's reviews at Amazon automatically appear in Phi Beta Iota at the same time they are posted to Amazon.
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NOTE: All inquires & correspondence pertaining to Earth Intelligence Network and Phi Beta Iota should go to the Executive Director. Robert Steele, the founder, has turned over all responsibilities less global travel to the Executive Director.
Robert Steele can be reached on personal matters at:
robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com
Note the period between each of the names.
The Journal of Public Intelligence is seeking volunteer editors, one or more for each of the eight tribes of intelligence (communities of practice), and also one or more for each of the collaboration zones. Wild Card editors welcome
Job comes with full editorial privileges on this website, and a role that may well be historic in nature. No tangible beneifts of any sort–just a hum-drum bit part in creating a prosperous world at peace through the application of public intelligence in the public interest.
The Associated Press Board of Directors today directed The Associated Press to create a news registry that will tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use. The system will register key identifying information about each piece of content that AP distributes as well as the terms of use of that content, and employ a built-in beacon to notify AP about how the content is used.
See the more detailed commentary by clicking on the logo above.
This graphic, devised by Robert Steele, illustrates the logic of achieving a prosperous world at peace thorugh the combination of open information and total integrity. Clicking on the steps leads to the UN briefing. Clicking on the frog below left leads to the latest technical briefing while frog right goes to the UNICEF “Open Everything” briefing. The book-length version of this graphic is INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (EIN, 2010).
Here is a very fast overview of how Wall Street and Organized Crime profit “legally” and without regard to the public interest. Click on logo itself.
Wall Street: bribe Congress to pass deregulation and ensure that Goldman Sachs remains in control of the US Treasruy regardless of who is President. Use information asymmetries and data pathologies to play the individual investor for the fool that they are, believing in what Michael Lewis called “Liar's Poker” in his 1980'sbook. Ride Initial Public Officerings (IPO) by manipulating the starting price, riding the hike, and then passing all the inflated stocks and the attendant risk to the individual investor. It's called “exploding the client”
The NYT article today addresses one means by which Goldman Sachs in particular has profited at taxpayer expense. On the organized crime side, as one of the Mafia chiefs said on his way back to Italy after serving a long prison sentence, “Nothing happens without both the Vatican and the politicians (local to national) general approval.” (as recollected). Moises Naim in his book ILLICIT (see our review) estimates that organized crime is $2 trillion a year “business” on top of the $7 trillion a year “legal” business. Someone else has calculated that bribes to government officials world-wide total roughly $1 trillion a year, which suggests a very equitable split between those who steal and those who allow the stealing in return for bribes to look the other way and NOT protect the public interest.
The Journal of Public Intelligence is committed to helping the public create public intelligence in the public interest. While the New York Times has been helpful in providing the above story, it is two decades too late. they knew this long ago, but as with most stories (such as informed opinions against going to war against Iraq) the management of the New York Times repressed stories. They only “break” stories now after they come out on the Internet–hence, public intelligence must press for more “citizen journalism” and more collective intelligence applied to all activities affecting the commonwealth of publics. See True Cost Meme under the Honour Society.
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Dear friends,
Paul Hawken is author of a number of remarkable books whose titles alone contribute to our thinking — titles like SEVEN TOMORROWS, THE ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE, NATURAL CAPITALISM and BLESSED UNREST. Several
years ago he founded a vast, remarkable, interactive database of, by, and for change agents — WISER Earth http://wiserearth.org. He has a uniquely potent clarity about what is happening in the world, what is
needed, and who can do the job (surprise: It's us!). His passionate clarity was called forth recently in a commencement address he gave in Portland, Oregon (see below).
I sometimes suggest that things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster. Paul mirrors these thoughts: “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.”
He identifies a biological fact that provides perhaps the most important guidance for our individual lives and the conscious evolution of civilization: “Life creates the conditions that are conducive to life.”
Wait a minute… “Life creates the conditions that are conducive to life.” That's a Really Big Idea. It goes by really fast, but it covers a LOT of ground.
Someday take this idea for a walk and see how many ways you can think of that we do (or don't) “create conditions that are conducive to life”. Then ponder all the ways we COULD create such conditions more wisely, for more of life. Then perhaps reflect on what this biological reality tells us about who and how we are in the world:
To the extent we “create conditions that are conducive to life”, we are alive, we are serving life, we are part of Life and the way Life is unfolding on this planet — a newly conscious part of the way Life has been evolving here for four billion years…
That takes me to the importance of system-level change — initiatives that seek to transform our cultural stories, institutions and practices… that create wiser measures of success, health and value… that develop forms of power, organization, and decision- making that tap into the best of who we are when we are most alive and connected, individually and collectively. Think about how profoundly such changes impact the conditions that are conducive to life — in our own lives and in the natural world. System conditions are the cultural equivalent of climate: They influence everything at once.
Hawken goes on to say that “Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.” He wonders, “What we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years.” And imagines that “No one would sleep that night.” Then he suggests we are living in the midst of such a miraculous moment: “This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years.”
And he suggests that we — embodied in the hundreds of new college graduates sitting before him — wake up to “the most amazing, challenging, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation.” He invites all of us to grab this most amazing opportunity and run with it.
He invites a new “generation” to generate what's needed to create the world anew.
Blessings on the Journey.
Coheartedly,
Tom
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Click on the photograph to go to the commencement address.
