The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Trending today– Lakoff: How to Rescue the American Dream from the GOP’s Nightmare The Republicans are redefining “democracy”–but it’s time to remember what the real dream of democracy meant. George Lakoff and Glenn Smith AlterNet, 28 July Read the article… And here is the advertisement slated to start running in various newspapers. The American Dream. …
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Here is a presentation by David Eaves (from three years ago), on the importance of collaboration, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills for successful free and open source software and content projects (as well as the need for better on-line tools to support all that): “Community Management Presentation” His key point is that “facilitation” (enabling the …
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2011: Self-Assembling Dynamic Networks And Boundary-less Tribalism DK Matai, mi2g Business Insider, 19 January 2011 “Self-assembling dynamic networks” is one phrase we should all memorise to prepare ourselves and to understand 2011. This phrase encapsulates the defining aspect of both the year ahead and the years to come, as we embark on the second decade …
Cofer Black Says Threat Posed by Hackers Same as Pre-9/11 Terrorism Public Intelligence Net, 4 August 2011 not to be confused with Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog Ex-CIA official sounds alarm about hackers’ next targets (CNN): The former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending “code war” in …
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Phi Beta Iota: The interactive edition is well worth going through. Below are highlights from our own review. Six Risks Stand Out: Fiscal crisis, Geopolitical Conflict, Climate Change, Extreme Energy Price Volatility, Economic Disparity, Global Governance Failure. Risk Interconnectivity Map: Central to the map are Economic Disparity and Global Governance Failures. Three clusters add depth …
There is a convergence among literatures, with complexity and resilience now bringing forth Ecological Economics, concepts of agile social response, and our favorite, Engineering Resilience, a multi-disciplinary mind-set most engineers are simply not up to (nor politicians, bureaucrats, etcetera). Adapting Institutions: Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience (Emily Boyd, Carl Folke (eds), 2011) Viability and Resilience …
Norman Cousins Brilliant Detailed Exposure of Power Killing Intelligence, July 30, 2011 This is a new edition of the book, and so very timely. If I had the money to give one book to every American, this would be it, followed by TYRANNICIDE The Story of the Second American Revolution and my all time God …
