Berto Jongman: Scott Atran on ISIS Prospects — Very Good While West Remains Deeply Corrupt
Cultural Intelligence
Amid the bullets, bombs and bluster, we are not only failing to stop the spread of radical Islam, but our efforts often appear to contribute to it.
Tom Atlee: Leadership as Power With
Cultural Intelligence
Co-intelligent leadership is that which enables wise “power-with”
Consider leadership not only as a quality or activity of individual human beings – those people we call “leaders” – but rather as a function or property of a system that can show up in many forms, including (but definitely not limited to) certain “leaders” in the system.
George Por: How collective intelligence helps organizations move past hierarchical leadership structures
P2P / Panarchy
How collective intelligence helps organizations move past hierarchical leadership structures
Louis Rosenberg
This tendency toward “herding” is exacerbated by social media and other modern technologies. We euphemistically call it “trending” or “going viral” but often it’s just a random impulse gone astray, amplifying noise rather than harnessing intelligence. In fact, a brilliant study out of MIT, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and NYU shows that if you randomly assign the first vote in an up-voting system similar to Reddit, that single first opinion will influence the final result by 25 percent, even if thousands of votes follow. So, what would a decision-making process look like if there were no leaders and no followers, but a balanced structure that allowed the group to solve a problem together and find the optimal solution? . . . Referred to as Human Swarming, teams can be connected by specialized networking software that allow them to form closed-loop systems and tackle problems as a unified intelligence.
Fletcher Prouty: How CIA Really Works
Corruption, Government
How the CIA Controls President Ford
the following appeared in the 7/75 issue of Genesis:
reprinted with permission of the author
In this monstrous U.S. government today, it's not so much what comes down from the top that matters as what you can get away with from the bottom or from the middle — the least scrutinized level. (Contrary to the current CIA propaganda as preached by William Colby, Ray Cline, Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, who say, incorrectly, “What the Agency does is ordered by the President.”)
As with the Mafia, crime is a cinch if you know the cops and the courts have been paid off. With the Central Intelligence Agency, anything goes when you have a respected boss to sanctify and bless your activities and to shield them from outside eyes.
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Bill Gertz: CIA’s Massive Counterintelligence Failure (Unprofessional for Decades)
Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence
CIA fooled in massive counterintelligence failure, former officer writes
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon
The CIA was fooled by scores of double agents pretending to be working for the agency but secretly loyal to communist spy agencies during the Cold War and beyond, according to a former CIA analyst, operations officer, and historian. The large-scale deception included nearly 100 fake CIA recruits in East Germany, Cuba, as well as the Soviet Union (and later Russia) who supplied false intelligence that was passed on to senior U.S. policymakers for decades.
Yoda: Indigenous Rights Victories in 2015
Culture, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience
Bats last, nature does.
Fifteen Indigenous Rights Victories In 2015
Good news. Sometimes, it comes in the form of a cancelled hydro dam that spares 20,000 people from the burden of displacement. Other times, it takes the shape of a simple court admission that Indigenous Peoples do actually make the best conservationists.
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