This is the Earth Rescue Network from the Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 Public Charity, as provided to the U.S. Army Civil Affairs Brigade and others during the information discussions about the need for a global multinational rescue force (changed to network to avoid the military connotation. Worn centered on a gray beret with both sides stapled down (i.e. not military style to one side), it symbolizes the commitment to peace (including the stilletto for the inevitable individuals that need to be killed, but with one man – one hit precision).
See also the following collections relevant to getting DoD OSINT up to flank speed for policy support, acquisition support, and of course operational support beginning with Afghanistan, where no one seems to have been told what multinational translators and tribal experts can do for us via reach-back.
Great search that we appreciate very much.this is now an established term with its own Wikipedia page that includes a guide to conferences and other resources, so here we will focus only on the culture of catastrophe and how stupid societies choose to turn otherwise manageable disasters into life-altering catastrophes.
There are three sub-sets we would recommend for consideration.
1) Process of decision-making. The first link talks about what happens when you fail to plan, react, or respond.
2) Earth Science and the political war on science
3) Empire and the global class war pitting dictators and their arms merchants and banks against the public
Way cool! First off, the White House is theater. We have no strategy, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not know how to manage, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not know how to produce intelligence (decision-support) for all who have a “need to know.” Until President Barack Obama, whom we pray for daily, understands that he does not need to remain a virtual prisoner of Rahm Emanuel and Wall Street, the USA will continue to be Empire as Usual with an incoherent, ineffective government that fails all of us, responsive only to special interests. Below is a single extraordinary article we found in thinking about your search, followed by a single graphic illustrating how we believe that Cognitive Science (the science side of the World Brain) and Collective Intelligence (the humanities side of the World Brain) can resurrect the deep goodness of America the Beautiful, and create a Prosperous World at Peace. Obama is exactly one telephone call away from greatness. Probably not going to happen.
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Cracking the Obama Code: Don Quixote vs. the Windmill Owners
Four hundred years ago, Miguel Cervantes described an archetypal delirious fruitcake who wanted to change the world by turning the clock back to the idealized Utopian times that never really existed. Imagine what Cervantes would write today about the futility of his satirical effort, if he were to learn that four centuries later, a whole movement would arise that emulated his loony character and elected one of their kind as the leader of the free world.
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Some conservative commentators are demonstratively wishing President Obama well. My heart admires their good intentions, but as I watched Obama's inauguration on TV, my mind couldn't help but ponder the possible consequences thereof.
As someone coming from another country (ex-USSR) I don't participate in racial debates nor do I want to. Being post-racial is fine by me. So let's accept Obama's post-racial premise, leave the issue of melanin content aside, and judge the man solely by the content of his agenda. And the more I look at Obama's agenda the more I realize that wishing him well is like wishing luck to Don Quixote in wrecking the windmill that feeds me and my family.
It's not a matter of taste. The spectacle of a bombastic crackpot in medieval armor poking his lance at random objects is disquieting if you own and operate an industrial facility. It sends thrills up your legs if you share the noble hidalgo's conviction that the perfectly functional, cereal-grinding, income-generating windmills are the embodiment of evil, spreading death and destruction. As far as popular entertainment goes, I've seen worse. But when Don Quixote organizes a community to fight windmills and receives massive support, anyone with a job should be worried. When he becomes president with a popular mandate to wreck windmills at taxpayers' expense, using the government apparatus, hope becomes all but absent.
Being light on details, Obama's inaugural speech briefly remunerated his views – which we already knew from his previous comments, associations, voting record, and cabinet appointments. Here is a partial list of the windmills he pledges to fight:
Windmill #1: Greed is bad for the economy.
Greed is a known “progressive” code word for the freedom to keep what you earn – the sort of freedom that made the United States the economic wonder of the world. To be fair, during the presidential debates McCain also attacked greed in rather quixotic terms, although next to Obama he sounded more like the simple-minded Sancho Panza.
Phi Beta Iota: Reluctantly, we have copied the entire post because it is utterly brilliant and merits preservation. Click on the graphic to read the original or below to read the safety copy this sheer work of genius.
INTELLIGENCE is DECISION-SUPPORT. The process of intelligence is separate from whether the sources and methods are secret or not. There is nothing secret, unethical, or illegal about the process of intelligence as decision-support.
Original “Class Before One” (2010 Class 001 in Planning)
“Since its inception, NATO has essentially opted out of the intelligence business. The command structure is almost totally innocent of any inherent capability for detecting or analyzing what is really going on. An almost pathetic aspect of the situation is the occasional effort by well meaning national officers to find ways to feed the very life blood of a viable defense system (intelligence) into a virtual corpse.”
Very important search. Although we have often stated our view that women are better intelligence (decision-support) managers because they have higher intuition, smaller egos, and are not stunted with respect to the role of feelings and care as relevant factors, we've never really looked this up. Below are a few links, thank you for a great search idea.
It is possible that sexual dimorphism may exist in regard to intellectual abilities in humans.[citation needed] Men may have evolved greater spatial abilities, possibly as a result of certain behaviors, such as navigating during a hunt, that they were more likely to be involved in during humans' evolutionary history.[44] Similarly, women may have evolved to devote more mental resources to gathering food, as well as understanding and tracking relationships and reading others' emotional states in order for them to be able to better understand their social situation.[44]
From conception to death, but particularly before adulthood, females are less vulnerable than males to developmental difficulties and chronic illnesses.[2][3] This could be due to females having two x chromosomes instead of just one,[4] or in the reduced exposure to testosterone.[5]
In the big five personality traits, women score higher in Agreeableness (tendency to be compassionate and cooperative) and Neuroticism (tendency to feel anxiety, anger, and depression).[7]
Demographics of MBTI surveys indicate that 60-75% of women prefer feeling and 55-80% of men prefer thinking.[8][9]
Females score higher on self-report scales of empathy, on samples ranging from school-age children to adults. Empathy scales include measures of perspective taking, orientation towards another person, empathic concern, and personal distress. However, such measures are subjective and empathy may be more related to gender role rather than sex.[10]
Simon Baron-Cohen‘s EQ SQ Theory claims that, in general, men are better at systematizing (the desire to analyze and explore systems and rules) and that women are better at empathizing (the ability to identify with other people’s feelings).
