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I will not replicate all that is at www.oss.net and to a much lesser extent, www.earth-intelligence.net, but do want to recognize a handful of extraordinary individuals by isolating their especially meritorious contributiions to the long-running debate about national intelligence reform and re-invention.

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Reference: Entangled Minds, Extra-Sensory Perception

Articles & Chapters, Blog Wisdom

Entangled Minds Dean Radin's blog

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Extrasensory Perception and Quantum Models of Cognition

By Patrizio E. Tressoldi, Lance Storm, & Dean Radin.

The possibility that information can be acquired at a distance without the use of the ordinary senses, that is by “extrasensory perception” (ESP), is not easily accommodated by conventional neuroscientific assumptions or by traditional theories underlying our understanding of perception and cognition. The lack of theoretical support has marginalized the study of ESP, but experiments investigating these phenomena have been conducted since the mid‐19th century, and the empirical database has been slowly accumulating. Today, using modern experimental methods and meta‐analytical techniques, a persuasive case can be made that, neuroscience assumptions notwithstanding, ESP does exist.

Read rest of overview blog….

The full paper is available at the online journal NeuroQuantology.

Tip of the Hat to Sumner Carter via Sandra D. Sabatini at Facebook.

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Reference: Electoral Reform 9 Steps

11 Society, Fact Sheets
One Page Online

Electoral Reform is the “fast track” toward restoring the Constitution and the Republic (We the People must be sovereign or it is not a Republic).  As long as the Executive and Congress are led by unethical politicians working for unethical corporations, public intelligence can and should be used to expose each individual, each transaction, each transgression.  That is the “slow road.”  However, if the Independents, Greens, Reforms, and the honest Libertarians (not faux Libertarians like the Koch Brothers) can get together on this ONE THING, the “fast track” is possible in time for 2012.

Corrected 30 Oct 2010 to number 01-09, not thirteen steps.

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Reference: Citizen Groups Proposed Spending Cuts

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Michael Ostrolenk Recommends

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) and National Taxpayers Union (NTU) have joined together to propose a list of 30 specific recommendations to reform our future spending commitments. If enacted in their entirety, these changes would save taxpayers over $600 billion in total by 2015, the target date for the Fiscal Commission to reduce our publicly-held debt-to- GDP ratio to a more sustainable level of 60 percent.

Report Online (15 Pages)

While our organizations have often differed about the proper regulatory scope of government and a host of tax policies, we are united in the belief that we spend far too much money on ineffective programs that do not serve the best interests of the American people.

The cuts deal with specific reforms to entitlement programs, defense spending, wasteful subsidies and a broad range of discretionary items of a smaller scale. While these proposals won’t get us all the way there, it is a start that could establish some common ground and make government more accountable in the process.

Phi Beta Iota: The cuts are glaringly obvious and glaringly representative of the deliberate unwillingness of the Congress to properly represent the tax payer and the public interest.  However, the cuts do not go nearly far enough, leaving most of the military budget intact, avoiding the intelligence budget completely, and generally not thinking in new terms such as the elimination of all income taxes, substituting the Automatic Payment Transaction (APT) tax.

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Reference: Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology

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Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology

The Jamestown Foundation

October 27, 2010 10:00 AM

Report, Home Page By: Stephen Ulph

Source Home Page
Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology aims to provide an introduction to the intellectual infrastructure of the jihadist phenomenon and the process of radicalization, and to furnish materials for a textbook primer to what is still largely an ideological terra incognita for the western reader. It is designed for the use of academics, security professionals, policy-makers and the general reader alike.

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[T]he work’s conclusions emphasize the need to avoid making assumptions based on old analytical habits, to study the wealth of open source information available on the ideology – which should be taken seriously and at face value – and to understand that the ‘Jihad’ is primarily a re-education endeavour and therefore very much a war of ideas. It calls for the improvement of both the quality and spectrum of research and analysis, preferably through a multi-disciplinary approach that can accommodate the return of the religious dimension to international affairs.

Four PDF Files Free at Source

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Reference: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity

Analysis, Blog Wisdom, Threats
Robert David STEELE Vivas

ROBERT STEELE: As I watch DNI Dan Coats embarrass himself, I cannot help but be reminded of the only decent high-level threat study ever done, by a panel including LtGen Dr. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret), the last serious National Security Advisor in modern US history.  The DNI is either being lied to or is actively misleading Congress. See in passing Soft Coup and False Flag Attacks. I am dismayed by the failure of the DNI to provide a national threat report that is holistic and inclusive of true cost economics.

10 High-Level Threats to Humanity

Or, everything no one ever told DNI Dan Coats that he was incapable of thinking of by himself.

Full text with graphics below the fold.

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Journal: How and Why Ideas Spread…

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I spread your idea because…

Ideas spread when people to choose to spread them. Here are some reasons why:

  1. I spread your idea because it makes me feel generous.
  2. …because I feel smart alerting others to what I discovered.
  3. …because I care about the outcome and want you (the creator of the idea) to succeed.
  4. …because I have no choice. Every time I use your product, I spread the idea (Hotmail, iPad, a tattoo).
  5. …because there's a financial benefit directly to me (Amazon affiliates, mlm).
  6. …because it's funny and laughing alone is no fun.
  7. …because I'm lonely and sharing an idea solves that problem, at least for a while.
  8. …because I'm angry and I want to enlist others in my outrage (or in shutting you down).
  9. …because both my friend and I will benefit if I share the idea (Groupon).
  10. …because you asked me to, and it's hard to say no to you.
  11. …because I can use the idea to introduce people to one another, and making a match is both fun in the short run and community-building.
  12. …because your service works better if all my friends use it (email, Facebook).
  13. …because if everyone knew this idea, I'd be happier.
  14. …because your idea says something that I have trouble saying directly (AA, a blog post, a book).
  15. …because I care about someone and this idea will make them happier or healthier.
  16. …because it's fun to make another teen snicker about prurient stuff we're not supposed to see.
  17. …because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to avoid an external threat.
  18. …because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to maintain internal order.
  19. …because it's my job.
  20. I spread your idea because I'm in awe of your art and the only way I can repay you is to share that art with others.