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Tom Atlee: A Whole New Ball Game–Collective Intelligence in ON

Articles & Chapters, Blog Wisdom, Correspondence, Movies, TED Videos, YouTube
Tom Atlee

Dear friends,

I want to share three videos and one slide show that are having a profound impact on me and my work.  They describe different facets of a new realm of understanding and possibility that is making all the difference in the world even now — possibilities that we can help along by taking up the creative challenges these videos present to us.

Much of my work will be weaving these insights into the kind of democracy-shift we need right now.  They make it clear that we are, indeed, in a whole new ball game.

Enjoy!

Coheartedy,
Tom

Generation We:  The Movement Begins…

Us Now – We're entering an era where more of everything is run by users collectively… (7 parts)

Jane McGonigal: Gaming Can Make a Better World

Michelle Holliday's Humanity 4.0 slide show

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Phi Beta Iota: Above have been re-sorted to put Information Operations (IO) relevance from top to bottom.  The next big thing is a combination of EMPOWERING people, HARNESSING minds, and ERADICATING corruption.  GroupOn is the “good” counterpart to WikiLeaks, but WikiLeaks should not be scorned–it demonstrates the perfidy of the Industrial Era “rule by secrecy” top-down elite model that has now been shown to be completely incapable of micro-managing complexity and diversity with ethical integrity.  Tom Atlee embodies the future of America and through a restored America the Beautiful, the future of humanity.  We respectfully, urgently urge every person to give generously to Tom Atlee and the Co-Intelligence Institute.  He has been devoted for decades to the heart of the matter: actualizing the goodness that lies within each of us, and the wisdom that lies within us as the aggregate, Collective Intelligence, Community Intelligence, Integral Consciousness.  Giving to Tom is the spiritual equivalent of collective prayer.  We need every prayer we can get.  Please give to this righteous liberation endeavor.  St.

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Winter 2010-2011  Co-Intelligence Institute fundraiser  progress report:

Funds raised so far:  $450  //  Target:  $15,000
Percentage of needed funds raised so far:  3.0%
People on List:  2045  //   Days left in fundraiser:  44

Thank you to the 10 people who have responded so far!

TO SUPPORT THE CO-INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE & TOM ATLEE'S WORK…

Please send a donation of any amount — $10, $25, $50, $100, $500 or more — to

The Co-Intelligence Institute
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Do let me know when you've mailed a donation, so I can add it to our tally right away.  Including your email address on your check will help me keep track of your gift.

See Also:

Reference: The Kids Are All Right–Mad as Hell!

Graphic: Digital Learners versus Analog Teachers

Interview: Robert Steele on Echo Chamber 2006

2008: Creating a Smart Nation

2008 World Brain as EarthGame

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Journal: Congress Welcomes Open Gay Military…

11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Military, YouTube
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Writing very carefully as a private citizen, IMHO, this is bad news for both the military Services and the Nation.  Congress has not served us well.  Nor, it appears, second below, will POTUS.

Congress Overturns Military Ban of Gays Serving Openly, Sends Bill to Obama's Desk

Published December 18, 2010 | FoxNews.com

WASHINGTON — In a landmark vote, the Senate on Saturday ended the Clinton-era ban on gays serving openly in the military, marking a major triumph for President Obama, liberals and the gay community.

The final vote to end the Pentagon's 1993 “don't ask, don't tell” policy was 65-31, drawing support from eight Republicans.

The bill now goes to the White House for Obama's signature. He is expected to sign the bill into law next week, a senior White House aide told Fox News.

The White House Blog

The President on the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010: “An Historic Step”

Phi Beta Iota: An enlightened Administration would have done a much better job of Information Operations (IO) within the military and within society, and would not be ramming this change down everyone's throat for partisan gain as is so obvious.  This is, like WikiLeaks, a distractor from the fact that the Administration continues to endorse and protect the US fraud tri-fecta: mortgage clearinghouse fraud, Wall Street derivatives fraud, and Federal Reserve lending fraud.  Having said that, and being of a light green Marine persuasion holding dark green Marines in the deepest regard, the bottom line is that sexual inclination is genetic diversity in action–it is not a choice, it is a fact.  It has operational implications–but the reality is that there are thousands if not tens of thousands homosexual men and lesbian women now in service or retired–and on balance, as a generic collective, we across Phi Beta Iota see this as similar to the racial integration of the military in times past.  It's a fact of life, society needs to get a grip, the military can help. Gays and lesbians are if anything much more culturally astute than those that fear them, it is highly unlikely any one of them will over-step their bounds within the well-ordered military.

See Also:

Your Daily YouTube: US Soldiers Remake Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”

John McCain's ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Last Stand

Gates: Despite Senate Action, DADT Still The Law

Jason Linkins: “Don't Ask Don't Tell” Repeal: This Day Has Finally Come

Lady Gaga gets heads up from Reid on DADT repeal

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Reference: Lying is Not Patriotic–Ron Paul

02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, Hill Letters & Testimony, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Media, Military, Misinformation & Propaganda, Movies, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, YouTube
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Several truths, nine questions.

Ron Paul on YouTube

Phi Beta Iota: Here are the questions as asked:

01  Do the American people deserve to know the truth regarding the on-going war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen?

02  Could a larger questions be how can an Army private gain access to so much secret information?

03  Why is the hostility mostly directed at Assange the publisher and not  our government's failure to protect classified information?

04  Are we getting our money's worth from the $80 billion dollars per year we are spending on intelligence gathering?

05  Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths?  Lying us into war, or WikiLeaks revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?

06  If Assange can be convicted of a crime for information that he did not steal, what does this say about the future of the First Amendment and the independence of the Internet?

07  Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on Wikileaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire than it is about national security?

08  Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in a time of declared war, which is treason, and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death, and corruption?

09  Was it not once considered patriotic to stand up to our government when it is wrong?

See Also:

Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both

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Journal: Exoskeletons for Disabled People

07 Health, Academia, Gift Intelligence, YouTube

Short Video

Berkeley Bionics: Introducing eLEGS

About eLEGS

Phi Beta Iota: This is an inspiring story in the context of unlimited wealth and no attention to the needs of the five billion poor–another example of multi-million dollar innovation for the one billion rich when the five billion poor need a two dollar fridge or a single shirt that can shed rain.  This is also a hugely impressive example of how good Berkeley is getting at propaganda–this is one of the slickest academic shorts we have ever seen.  The beneficiaries are rightfully estactic but the question must be asked: what could this investment of talent and money have done for millions who would then create infinite wealth to allow for a hundred of these advanced projects to flourish?