Nato investigates Libya civilian death claims
Libya accuses NATO of killing civilians in Tripoli airstrike. Are the charges true this time?
NATO is terrorizing Libyan civilians
Libya intervention interrogated
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Event: 26 Oct 2011 Assisi Italy Pope, Peace, & Prayer — 5th Inter-Faith Event Since 1986 — Terms of Reference…
01 Poverty, 02 Diplomacy, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
UPDATED 26 October 2011 (Vatican focus on global financial reform / authority, need for ethics – avoids addressing secular corruption as we suggested in below letter sent January 2011)
Penguin: Vatican Calls for World Government…Oopps
Vatican, Ethics, & Truth I (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Occupy Wall Street’s Most Unlikely Ally: The Pope
Vatican Breaks Bread (Sort Of) With Occupiers
Cardinal Turkson: Beyond Wall Street
UPDATED 18 June 2011 (Turkey Rising, Truth, Convergence of Science & Religion)
Turkey Rising–21st Century an Ottoman Century?
Catholic Church Getting Serious About “Truth”
Review: God and Science–Coming Full Circle
Review: The Beginning of All Things–Science and Religion
Review: Questions of Truth–Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief
UPDATED 10 February 2011 (All Other Assisi Links)
Seven Answers–Robert Steele in Rome
Egypt & Jordan: Muslim & Christian Side by Side
Revolution & Secession: The Game is ON!
Revolution Kickstarted by Facebook Generation
Assisi, Egypt, US Hypocrisy, Global Revolution
Reference: Correspondence on Assisi Intelligence
Reference: Intelligence for the Spirit of Assisi
Jon Lebkowsky: Collaboration, Cooperation, Democracy
11 Society, Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Everybody’s head is a strange universe filled with echos of voices they’ve heard over and over again. Against this, we try to manifest our intentions, to persuade with more voice, more conversation. Sometimes we get through, but even when we get through, we’re often filtered, just as we’re filtering. Is it any wonder that it’s so difficult to build and sustain an effective collaboration?
I’m looking at the ways that we strive to aggregate our attentions, find common ground, and work together. Over the years I’ve approached this through the lens of democracy, or what I’ve referred to as the “democratic intention” to create a participatory process that works. The older I get and the more I think about it, the more I realize that this intention, though we so often profess it, is actually rare. Most of us would really like to assert our self interest, our own preferences, but society is a collision of interests and preferences, we have to give in order to take. In a recent discussion of the book The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod, I was struck by the hardwired assumption that self-interest inherently rules, and cooperation is reached most effectively with an understanding of that point, thus the prisoner’s dilemma. In fact, I find that real people are fuzzy on that point, they’re not necessarily or inherently all about self-interest. We’re far more complex than that.
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Jock Gill: Carbon Negative Energy
05 Energy
Carbon Negative Energy
This new/old, yet simple technology, creates carbon negative energy by extracting carbon from the feedstocks for use in agriculture, water treatment, and other applications. Additionally, more than three billion people can benefit from the biochar process using nearly 100% recyclable materials. Applications of pyrolysis include creating home heating systems that produce carbon for sequestering, as well as clean burning stoves that reduced health risks while providing farmers with a beneficial soil amendment. Jock Gill is a leader in creating simple and low cost units for introducing students to pyrolysis and its two principal co-products: Thermal energy & biochar.
There is a 27 minute video interview for STEM educartors in which I answer questions about pyrolysis, iCans and biochar: www.retn.org/programs/pyrolysis-creating -carbon-negative-…
If you add sensors & actuators to an iCan, does it become an iCan robot? Could this be a STEM project? A 4H project?
Obama Over-Rules Top Lawyers on Libya Attacks
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
2 Top Lawyers Lost to Obama in Libya War Policy Debate
June 17, 2011
WASHINGTON — President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.
Phi Beta Iota: Obama is in violation of the Constitution and an active sponsor of crimes against humanity that should subject him to consideration for appearance before an International Tribunal. His “national security advisor” is a Goldman Sachs apparatchik with his eyes fixed on the substantial holdings of real gold that could be looted (as opposed to paper gold where Goldman holds a strong but fraudulent position). Congress remains a craven foot-soldier to the Executive, and is liable for impeachment in detail for failure to fulfill its Article 1 responsibilities. US soliders are starting to come back from Libya in body bags, making it starkly clear that the US already has “boots on the ground” and blood in the sand. NATO pilots and commanders attacking Libya (not part of the “no fly” mandate) are liable for prosecution as war criminals. US flag officers accepting illegal orders are liable for court-martial should the US have an honest president in the future. An invasion of Libya is said to be planned for October, with the oil and the water and the gold as the presumed objectives. The lunacy continues….
Turkey Rising–21st Century an Ottoman Century?
02 Diplomacy, 08 Immigration, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Impotency, Strategy
Turkey in Position to Lead Region Out of Tumultuous Century
By William Pfaff, Truthdig, Jun 14, 2011
Looking backward, there is a great deal to be said for leaving well enough alone, which is more difficult than one might think. Western Europe in the 19th century is now generally looked back upon as having constituted a pinnacle of Western civilization. Certainly in literature, music and the plastic arts this was so, the last-named in the century’s final decade, when painting ceased its period as domestic decoration and exploded into a myriad of ways to perceive not only the external world but the interior universe as well.
The modern Western intelligence was invented then, and the world has since played variations on 19th century political themes: nationalism, colonialism, imperialism, populism, class liberation, revolution, anarchism, class and racial warfare. The Napoleonic wars began the century and transformed its political institutions. The Franco-Prussian War ended the century, setting the scene for the hyper-destructive 20th century.
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There is a Muslim community of peace for Turkey to inspire.
Phi Beta Iota: Science and religion and philosophy, when at their best, seek to establish “best truths.” All three have been corrupted by politics, dogma, and laziness. Peace costs one third of what is now spent on war, and infinite wealth for the many can only be achieved in the context of a universal peace. If Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India come together on this point, Islam will be a global force in the 21st Century, not least because it will control secular corruption.
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Pfaff via Spinney at Phi Beta Iota
William Pfaff, The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy (Walker & Co, 2010)
Big Prick Corruption vs. Little Prick Faux Pas
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), IO Impotency.. or why a little weiner is as necessary to the functioning of Versailles on the Potomac as the circus was to a Roman Empire in its decline.
Jun 17, 2011
By Peter Z. Scheer
I pretty much lost it while watching David Gergen, a veteran of the Nixon White House, trying to make sense of sexting. The CNN analyst surely witnessed his share of villainy in that administration and the three others he served in, and he probably has no problem comprehending something like the illegal bombing of Cambodia or the near-elimination of welfare. But who sends pictures of his penis to strangers?
A lot of people, as it turns out. There is a culture gap in this country, between people who are happy to enjoy what’s left of their privacy and people who just don’t think about it. It’s not that No. 1 NBA draft pick Greg Oden wanted to expose his penis to fans—it just never occurred to him that anybody but his lady friend would get a peek. There are a number of professional athletes—and at least one politician—for whom the previous sentence would work.
Phi Beta Iota: The pornographic criminally insane behavior of the senior politicians is vastly more harmful and costly that a little weiner on Twitter. This is the core point. There is no “sense” in Washington, it is all theater of the absurd fronting for the on-going looting and depraved indifference of the few at the expense of the many.
