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Future Water Wars: A Summary by Walter Sorochan (25 July 2010)

Summary: This article, with documentation, briefly summarizes the status of water in the world. Water is essential for all living things and the world appears to be running out of safe drinking water. Although water may be a human right, people in all parts of the world, today as in the past, fight over water. Today, corporations are usurping water from rivers, lakes and underground reservoirs to make money selling bottle water, to make soft drinks, and to irrigate crops as food for cash; all at the expense of depriving affordable drinking water to poor people. Another dilemma: During this current economic crisis, state and local governments are debating whether to privatize public water distribution systems as a way to save money. Water has become a biological, political and economic issue!

Full post with links….

Reference: WATER–Soul of the Earth, Mirror of Our Collective Souls

Worth a Look: Open Water and Sanitation Wiki

2011/04/28

Overcoming the political divide, but not through facts!

03 Economy, 04 Education, 06 Family, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda

This is a great analysis of how the liberal/conservative political divide persists, and a suggested path to solving it. By Ethan Zuckerman at the Berkman Center.

Great quote up front:

“You don’t lead with the facts in order to convince. You lead with the values — so as to give the facts a fighting chance.”

04/25/2011 (11:41 am)

Overcoming political polarization… but not through facts

A recent New York Times poll suggests that Americans are in a dark mood. 70% of people think the country is moving in the wrong direction, a number not seen since the peak of the Great Recession two years ago. Their frustration may stem from higher gas prices or continued unemployment, but at least some commentators believe that a key factor is popular frustration with a dysfunctional government that doesn’t seem able to address the issues the US is facing.

Read entire piece with many links….

Phi Beta Iota: This has been upgraded to a reference. Brother Steiner has brought forward one of the most elegant reviews of the conflicts between beliefs, values, facts, and needs that we have seen. This is a deep and broad article whose substance–and the links therein–merit appreciation by all who wish to advance the public's common interest.

2011/04/252011/04/25

Reference (2003): Augmented Social Network

Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), IO Mapping, Methods & Process, Policies, Reform, Serious Games, Standards, Threats, White Papers

NEW: Archived & Expanded at P2P Foundation/ASN

this paper covers a lot of the ground we've been discussing here [at Google Group Next Net] about what kind of intentions a ‘next net' would facilitate. worth a read.

Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-General Internet by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, Steven Foster

as presented at the Planetwork conference on “Networking a Sustainable Future” in San Francisco on June 6, 2003

as published First Monday, Volume 8, Number 8 – 4 August 2003

Phi Beta Iota: The current approaches to “identity” are vestiges of the industrial-era commoditization of humans and the fragmentation of the commons. In the 1990's the Hackers Conference (Silicon Valley) discussed trust and identity authentication in combination with anonymnity (or better, invisibility).

2011/04/252011/04/25

Integrity Emergent: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

Advanced Cyber/IO, DoD, Ethics, Officers Call

NEW: Strategic Narrative Featured at Woodrow Wilson Center led by Hon. Director Jane Harman, watch the video.

Captain Wayne Porter discusses “A National Strategic Narrative”

Posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Institute of World Politics

Captain Porter explained that US policy could benefit from adhering to a coherent strategic context. He was concerned that our leaders increasingly are becoming captive to temporal urgency without being able to consider a wider strategic perspective. We need to appreciate the interconnectedness and complexity of our strategic environment – better described as a strategic ecology. He said that this argues for a whole-of-nation, functional approach to development, diplomacy and defense, versus simply treating these as organizational stovepipes. He pointed out that such a functional approach has now been recognized in the National Security Strategy, the Quadrennial Defense Review, and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.

Reference: National Strategic Narrative

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2011/04/242011/04/24

Reference: APJ Abdul Kalam–Pure Wisdom

01 Poverty, 03 Environmental Degradation, 03 India, 04 Education, 05 Energy, 08 Proliferation, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

‘To create better world, it is necessary to alleviate poverty’

Chicago, Apr 24:

Former President, Mr A P J Abdul Kalam today said that to create a better world, it is necessary to alleviate poverty, safeguard drinking water, use clean energy and ensure quality education and values for all.

Mr Kalam, who was honoured at a public reception by the Indo-American Centre (IAC) here, said: “The world is integrally connected through the environment, economy, people and ideas.”

He said that we need an educational value system, and ideas and innovations should not be politically inclined.

On political unrest in the Middle East, Mr Kalam explained how the Egyptian revolution for a change to democracy has spread to the Arab world.

“We need to stop corruption,” he said.

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2011/04/222011/04/22

Obama Pakistanizes [Undeclared] War on Libya

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Military, Officers Call

REFERENCE

Obama Takes the Cape

Pakistanizing the Libyan War

By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch

Weekend Edition, April 22 – 24, 2011

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In other words, someone has sold Obama on Pakistaning the Libyan War, i.e., pursuing a military strategy of relying on drone attacks to a destroy an adversary hiding in the environmental background. What is astonishing is that Obama took the cape, despite the fact that only 12 days earlier, a report in the Los Angeles Times by David Cloud illustrated once again the absurdity of Cartwright's and Gates' claims.

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2011/04/18

Reference: A Religious Cry from Arkansas

Blog Wisdom

Letter: warnings against propaganda today

By Submitted by Sanford Pass

The Arkansas State University Herald, Monday, April 18, 2011

EXTRACT: Is this just a rant from an old stressed guy who is facing having to write a bunch of papers to pass his courses….OR is this the voice of one crying out in the intellectual wilderness of early 21st century academic America, sounding an alarm to the next generation that we need to have our eyes up and focused on what is really going on in this world now?

Read complete letter.

Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full reading as a signal from the heartland.

Category: References

Reference: Future Water Wars A Summary