Berto Jongman: Megadrought Now — Lake Powell — Senator John McCain Could Fix This!
Lake Powell’s receding waters show risk of U.S. ‘megadrought’ Forecasting that there is an 80 percent chance of an extended drought in the area between 2050 and 2099 unless aggressive steps are taken to mitigate the impacts of climate change, the researchers said their results point to a challenging – and remarkably drier – future.
Robert Parry: It’s Official — NATO and US Lump Public Relations in with PSYOPS and Information War
US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North.
Howard Rheingold: Networked Knowledge & Combinatorial Creativity
This beautiful meditation on the networked nature of knowledge and collaboration turns on the fulcrum of attention to information. Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information and each other shapes who we become, shapes our creative destiny and, in turn, shapes our experience of the world. And, …
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Patrick L. Smith: US & NATO Restart Cold War + NATO RECAP
We restarted the Cold War: The real story about the NATO buildup that the New York Times won’t tell you Our leaders and media push time-worn nonsense about American innocence, while taking aggressive moves. Look out EXTRACT As of this week, leaders who know nothing about leading, thinkers who do not think and opinion-shaping poseurs …
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NATO Strategic Foresight Wrap-Up
Create an account or log-in to harvest the three days of consideration of strategic foresight across multiple domains: http://innovationhub-act.org/ New joins are welcome at any time. The next planned event is …. ROBERT STEELE: My own wrap-up comments are below.
NATO Crowd-Sourcing Future
Seriously. NATO Transformation Command, based in Norfolk, Virginia and previously known as Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic, wants to crowd-source the future. They have a strategic foresight initiative that is hot right now, and anyone can sign up to have an account and express their views on Economics, Environment, Technology, and more. These are serious people …
