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Why your nation’s IQ matters more than your own

We know that intelligence matters at the level of the individual, impacting performance in school, work, and life. Decades of research supports that point. But what if your personal intelligence level doesn’t matter as much as the average level of intelligence of the country in which you live? This is what economist Garett Jones of George Mason University calls the “paradox of IQ” in his new book Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own.

Phi Beta Iota: A great deal goes into creating a “Smart Nation.” We have not done anything in this direction since the first article appeared in 1996.

See Also:

Steele, Robert. “SPECIAL FEATURE: Creating a Smart Nation–Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information,” Government Information Quarterly, pp. 159-173

2016/02/012016/01/31

Koko: Dark Side of Clean Energy

Earth Intelligence

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The Dark Side of Clean Energy in Mexico

A detailed account of corruption, fraud, human rights abuses, and a partial victory for indigenous peoples opposing wind farms.

2016/02/012016/01/31

Antechinus: Deadly Deception (False Flag?) at Port Arthur, Australia

Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

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Deadly deception at Port Arthur

Investigator Joe Viallis uses hard military science to prove that Martin Bryant with an IQ of 66 could not have been responsible for the murders at Port Arthur or on the Arthur Highway, though he may have fired 250 wild shots from Seascape during the siege, every one of which failed to hit a target; a dramatic and obvious reversal of the real shooter's performance at Port Arthur during the afternoon of 28 April 1996. Martin Bryant killed no-one at Port Arthur but was deliberately set up as a patsy. All of the hard evidence at Port Arthur bears the distinctive trademark of a planned psyop intended to justify and make successful a massive buy-back of guns across Australia.

Online with photos: http://www.whale.to/b/viallspam.html

Offline: https://archive.org/details/DeadlyDeceptionAtPortArthur

Book draft: Full text of “What's Going On? A Critical Analysis of the Port Arthur Massacre”

2016/01/312016/01/31

Can John Kasich Win by Championing Electoral Reform?

Politics

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ROBERT STEELE: Please consider reading the essay with 27 endnotes at LinkedIn, where I would be most appreciative of internal likes and external shares. I am agnostic about who might win — my focus is on electoral reform — but I do earnestly believe that John Kasich is the only totally ethical and broadly intelligent adult running. The essay offers a specific idea for his winning the Republican nomination by working with Governor Abbott of Texas to sponsor a virtual (non-binding) Constitutional Convention that would energize all of us, and other ideas that he can use to destroy the three Senators now running, and reach agreement with Joe Biden on the need — prior to the summer recess — for an Electoral Reform Act of 2016 that enables the election of Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Members as well as Independents.

http://tinyurl.com/Kasich-2016

2016/01/312016/01/28

Daniel Villegas: How language can affect the way we think

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

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This is a fascinating article about differences in language, and shows how things can truly be “lost in translation.” My husband, a native Spanish speaker and I will have heated debates about English because he's translating in his head, and some expressions he'll claim he's never heard (despite living in this country for almost 35 years), or he'll say they don't make sense.

How language can affect the way we think

There’s a wide field of research on the link between language and both psychology and behavior. Here, a few fascinating examples:

Ty Simpson: Decentalize Everything!

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

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2016/01/312016/01/29

Marcus Aurelius: National Commission on Future of the Army — an Immaculate Conception

Military, Sources

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Hot off the press, just released today, invite your attention to report of the statutorily-mandated National Commission on the Future of the Army at following link:

Have not fully read but expect a couple of things:

* It will likely be contentious, both for what it says and does not say and for various factions' assessments of its quality.

* It will generate some degree of workload for the Army Staff as the Chief of Staff and the Secretary decide what they want to do with/about it and how.

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