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Robert Steele: Vilification of the Confederate Flag is Abusive, Despicable, Ignorant Public Misbehavior
Cultural Intelligence
Every time I think I have seen President Obama hit bottom he exceeds my previous expectations. The recent vilification of the heritage of half the country, criminalizing the symbol of that heritage for tens of millions of Americans, is gratuitously divisive, to say the least. It also displays a stunning ignorance of history, and a cavalier disrespect for fact that I find disgusting.
As a practical matter, removing all Confederate-battle-flag items from National Park Service battlefield concessionaires is incendiary, not just ridiculous — beyond juvenile to the point of criminal insanity. This is misbehavior worthy of the impeachment of the President for attacking, with malice aforethought, an entire culture long abused by the North and its financial backers.
Mongoose: Charleston False Flag Indicators
07 Other Atrocities
Charleston has not been properly investigated.
CHARLESTON CHURCH – FALSE FLAG CONSPIRACY
Rita Katz who was reportedly the brains behind various fake Osama bin Laden videos. “She served in the Israeli Defense Forces.” Russ Winter writes: The original Dylann Roof photos were first tweeted by Rita Katz at 7:37 am on the 18th. ‘Arrest' of Dylann Storm Roof: The Hoax that Keeps On Giving
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Berto Jongman: Democracy Declines in Over Half UN States
Cultural Intelligence
Study: Democracy Declining in More Than Half of U.N. Member States
A new report released by a long-established civil rights advocacy group says democracy is waning and authoritarianism is on the rise in more than 96 of the 193 states that belong to the United Nations.
Stephen E. Arnold: Technology Can Be Toxic
#OSE Open Source Everything, 03 Economy, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence
Technology Takes It on the Nose
I put this passage in my quote file:
But technology is not neutral – and neither is code nor numbers. There are human, subjective judgments lurking behind the apparent objectivity offered by algorithms and the “user-friendly” operating systems. These technologies perform almost magically, while at the same time enabling all sorts of organizations to easily collect information about us, something that makes it that bit easier to usher in new forms of surveillance and control.
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Patrick L. Smith: US & NATO Restart Cold War + NATO RECAP
Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military
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 such as Tom Friedman are confident enough in their case to sally forth with it: The Cold War returns, the Russians have restarted it and we must do the right thing—the right thing being to bring NATO troops and materiel up to Russia’s borders, pandering to the paranoia of the former Soviet satellites as if they alone have access to some truth not available to the rest of us.
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Review: Change the Story, Change the Future – A Living Economy for a Living Earth
5 Star, Culture, Research, Economics, Environment (Solutions), Intelligence (Public), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Survival & Sustainment, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution
David Korten
5.0 out of 5 stars Brings Us Full Circle — Valuable as Remedial Education for All, June 27, 2015
David Korten has been one of my heroes and indirect mentors through his books for over a decade. His book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community resonated deeply with me, and I completely agree that the premise of that book, to wit, people are the new (restored) super-power actualized through local resilience and global community.
This book takes on great importance as we reflect on the United Nations and its Sustainability Development Goals (SDG), combined with The Most Holy Father agreeing to visit the UN in September to deliver and encyclical that has been leaked, on climate change. This book can be considered the middle book, the book that brings a largely unconscious public, generally poorly read, up to speed with “the new story.” It is not a new story, as one reviewer archly observes, it is in fact the original story harking back to a time when our indigenous ancestors respected the Mother Earth, observed plants and animals as co-equal intelligence, forgot nothing through oral history, and generally acted as stewards of the earth. One of the best books showing before (Mayan, Aztec) and after (guns, germs, steel) is 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.
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