Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1570 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

0Shares

On the basis of data everything in this report is true, and there is much more that could have been said along these lines. And I just can't express how much I hate saying that. Increasingly I have come to see this as a question of citizen involvement, and the choices made: whether to vote, and for whom to vote. We are a dysfunctional society, and we are going to keep getting worse until more people vote, and vote for wellness. The decline of an empire is not pretty. History is very clear on that point.

Here are 11 things other countries do way better than America

1. Food waste reduction 2. College loans 3. Maternity leave 4. Rights of the Earth 5. Wi-Fi service 6. Vacation time 7. Bike friendliness 8. Tipping practices 9. Metric System 10. Belief in science 11. Abortion rights

2015/07/142015/07/14

Review: On the Nature of Leadership

6 Star Top 10%, Leadership

0Shares

Richard A. Barker

5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star Paradigm Shifting Book — Destroys Existing Leadership “Industry”, July 13, 2015

I received this book as a “must read” gift from a colleague finishing his doctorate with a focus on transformative leadership, and after reading it, I quite agree, to the point of rating this book at 6 stars (my top 10% across 2000 plus non-fiction books). In brief, this book is a massive detailed literature review that covers academic and practitioner definitions of leadership and finds them all wanting for the simple reason that they are mired in leadership as a supervisory hierarchical relationship in a reductionist system in which the followers are the means and the ends are defined by someone other than the followers.

Continue reading “Review: On the Nature of Leadership”

2015/07/142015/07/13

Sepp Hasslberger: Russia – Japan Unite on Payment Cards – Sanctions Backfiring

03 Economy

0Shares

Financial pressure (the sanctions imposed by Western nations) seems to be backfiring…

Russian national payment system and Japan’s JCB to issue co-badged cards

EXTRACT

“The partnership with the Japanese payment system will provide Mir-JCB bank cards access to the infrastructure of JCB worldwide, including Asia, where JCB has traditionally been strong and had wide network of card acceptance. Co-badging the Mir-JCB card will work in the infrastructure of the Mir payment system as a Mir bank card; in the JCB infrastructure, outside of Russia, as a JCB card”, said the statement published Tuesday.

JCB in turn will significantly strengthen its position in the Russian market and its worldwide business, added NPCS.

2015/07/142015/07/13

Stephen E. Arnold: Elsevier Going Down….

IO Impotency

0Shares

Elsevier and Its Business Model May Be Ageing Fast

If you need to conduct research and are not attached to a university or academic library, then you are going to get hit with huge subscription fees to have access to quality material. This is especially true for the scientific community, but on the Internet if there is a will there most certainly is a way. Material often locked behind a subscription service can be found if you dig around the Internet long enough, mostly from foreign countries, but the material is often pirated. Gizmodo shares in the article, “Academic Publishing Giant Fights To Keep Science Paywalled” that Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers, is angry about its content being stolen and shared on third party sites. Elsevier recently filed a complaint with the New York District Court against Library Genesis and SciHub.org.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Elsevier Going Down….”

2015/07/142015/07/13

SchwartzReport: Solor Cones 20X More Output

05 Energy

0Shares

If you do a Google on “The Spin Cell™” you will find the site of the company described in this report. I have just gone through their several sites, and I think this is the real deal.

Cone Shaped Spinning Solar Cells Generate 20 Times More Electricity Than Flat Photovoltaics

2015/07/132015/07/12

Tom Atlee: Co-Intelligence FAQ

Collective Intelligence

0Shares

What is intelligence? What is co-intelligence? How is co-intelligence a bigger form of intelligence? What is a bigger picture perspective and what are bigger picture outcomes? What helps people make co-intelligence happen? Isn't co-intelligence just collaboration? What's the difference between co-intelligence and collective intelligence? What is co-stupidity? What causes people and groups to be co-stupid? Is co-intelligence an experience? Can individuals be co-intelligent, or just groups? Is co-intelligence a method? Isn't co-intelligence already happening in lots of places? What is the co-intelligence worldview? What does co-intelligence have to do with democracy? What value do the co-intelligence worldview and co-intelligence capacities add to human life? Is co-intelligence the intelligence of God or Spirit? What is holistic intelligence? How does all this fit together? What is the Co-Intelligence Institute?

The Co-Intelligence FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

2015/07/132015/07/12

Berto Jongman: Legalized Financial Crime — LIBOR & Foreign Exchange Manipulation by City of London and Wall Street Excused By US & UK “Authorities”

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

0Shares

History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget

To review the bidding, the LIBOR bid rigging cartel was the largest cartel in history, manipulating the prices of an estimated $300+ trillion in assets. That is a figure considerably larger than the world's combined GDP. … Until recently, I called the LIBOR cartels the largest in history by at least three orders of magnitude. The rigging of foreign exchange (FX) “markets,” however, is so large that that I now have to say that they represent the two largest cartels in history by roughly three orders of magnitude. Both cartels consisted of most of the world's largest and most elite banks.