The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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.
Original White Paper to DNI (Negroponte)
Corporate Development Submission: “The Virgin Truth” (Sir Richard Branson)
We are pretty sure neither document got to its intended recipient.
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Tip of the Hat to the Pioneers
Welcome LinkedIn connections, that is what we use to follow cool people and harvest their leads for Phi Beta Iota. Direct emails and invitations to comment or speak also encouraged.
Jay Rosen has a terrific post about the state of media.
Jay analyzes the scene:
… the filmmakers are showing us what the mass audience was: a particular way of arranging and connecting people in space. Viewers are connected “up” to the big spectacle, but they are disconnected from one another. Or to use the term I have favored, they are “atomized.” But Howard Beale does what no television person ever does: he uses television to tell its viewers to stop watching television.
He goes on to ask what would happen today in response to a “Howard Beale” event…
Immediately people who happened to be watching would alert their followers on Twitter. Someone would post a clip the same day on YouTube. The social networks would light up before the incident was over. Bloggers would be commenting on it well before professional critics had their chance. The media world today is a shifted space. People are connected horizontally to one another as effectively as they are connected up to Big Media; and they have the powers of production in their hands.
Jay follows with an expansion of his comments, and concludes with a set of recommendations for today’s journalists. (The post is a must-read for journalists and news bloggers.)
There’s been too much hand-wringing over the supposed collapse of journalism as we know it, but journalism’s never been more exciting, never had the kind of tools and channels of information available today. We’re seeing, not collapse, but evolution.
WEBLOGSKY: Jon Lebkowsky's Blog
Phi Beta Iota: Emphasis added above. The cited post by Jay Rosen is extremely rich in organization and content and therefore a REFERENCE as well as a Weblosky Extract. Epoch B “bottom=up” everything, open everything, and a restoration of human scale and human values, are all at tipping points.
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| MAIA Intelligence Blog | Yes | Dhiren Gala | |
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| Ralph Kimball | Yes | Steve Fiske | |
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Tip of the Hat to the listed respondents at LinkedIn Business Intelligence Group.
This provides single place where all four Hacking Humanity versions can be accessed easily, along with core Open, Amazon, and Multinational Briefings.
Chapter on Hacking Humanity (Denmark Book)
Briefing with Q&A on Hacking Humanity (NYC Hackers on Planet Earth)
Briefing on Hacking Humanity (Denmark for Researchers)
Briefing on Hacking Humanity (British Columbia for Engineers)
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Three links have been placed into Antecedents.
World Brain 101 is a brief review of the history of the concept across many eras.
World Brain 102 is the concept that was presented to the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), but lacks a single Member nation willing to present it to the General Assembly as a righteous idea.
World Brain 103 provides, for each of the ten high-level threats to humanity, each of the twelve core policies, and each of the eight demographic challenges, easy links to the following:
None of this stuff would have been possible (as humble as it is) without all of the people that collaborated across twenty years to advance the emerging new craft of public intelligence, now known in the aggregate as M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making).
SHADOWS OF THINGS PAST AND IMAGES OF THE FUTURE: LESSONS FOR THE INSURGENCIES IN OUR MIDST
Max G. Manwaring, November 2004, Strategic Studies Institute
Phi Beta Iota: Every passing day reminds us that Dr. Col Max Manwaring has made so many extraordinary contributions to our strategic understanding across so many fronts, and yet his work does not appear to have been appreciated to the degree that we consider warranted. Below is one small portion of his teachings from this reference.
This monograph concludes with the idea that the complex realities of contemporary political-insurgency wars must be understood as holistic processes that rely on various civilian and military agencies and contingents working together in an integrated fashion to achieve mutually agreed political-strategic ends. In this connection, at a minimum, three strategic-level imperatives are needed to begin to deal effectively with unconventional conflict situations. They are:
(1) civil-military and military-to-military dialogue regarding viable security and stability,
(2) fundamental education and understanding requirements, and
(3) the strategic application of U.S. military power.
The associated recommendations take us beyond doing “something” for something’s sake to the cooperative, holistic, and long-term planning and implementation of the strategic ends, ways, and means that directly support the achievement of a political endgame.
EXTRACT: By the late 1970s, after fifteen years in the business, Bob Hare knew what he was looking for when it came to psychopaths. They exhibit a cluster of distinctive personality traits, the most significant of which is an utter lack of conscience. They also have huge egos, short tempers, and an appetite for excitement — a dangerous mix. In a typical prison population, about 20 percent of the inmates satisfy the Hare definition of a psychopath, but they are responsible for over half of all violent crime.
EXTRACT: The Psychopathy Checklist consists of a set of forms and a manual that describes in detail how to score a subject in twenty categories that define psychopathy. Is he (or, more rarely, she) glib and superficially charming, callous and without empathy? Does he have a grandiose sense of self worth, shallow emotions, a lack of remorse or guilt? Is he impulsive, irresponsible, promiscuous? Did he have behavioural problems early in life? The information for each category must be carefully drawn from documents such as court transcripts, police reports, psychologists' reports, and victim-impact statements, and not solely from an interview, since psychopaths are superb liars (“pathological lying” and “conning/manipulative” are PCL-R categories). A prisoner may claim to love his family, for example, while his records show no visits or phone calls.
Hare Psychopathy Checklist (Wikipedia Overview)
Actual List for Consideration Below the Line
