Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1592 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Nice backchannel tool designed specifically for education.

Backchannel Chat is a class discussion tool that was designed from the ground up to support teachers. Backchannels are great for increasing participation in classroom discussions and for informally assessing your students’ knowledge. Teacher can control all aspects of the discussion, you can remove messages and prevent students from posting, if the pace of the discussion is overwhelming and key messages are lost you can take control and lock the room so that only you can add content. Learn more about Backchannel Chat

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2015/06/102015/06/09

SchwartzCourt: French Court Rules Water a Right, Unconstitutional to Cut Off Water to Anybody

12 Water

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In the United States uber-rich individuals and the corporations they control are trying to privatize municipal water systems, and we are already — as in Detroit — cutting off the water service to poor people. In France they are going in a very different direction.

French Court Rules It Is Unconstitutional To Cut Off Water To Anybody

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Berto Jongman: Will US Collapse Soon? Robert Steele: Should EU Be Thinking About Post-US NATO?

#OSE Open Source Everything, Crowd-Sourcing, Design, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience

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Unthinkable: Brazilian Journalist Mulls Soviet-Style Collapse of US

Citing a series of geopolitical, economic and social setbacks faced by the United States since the turn of the century, geopolitical analyst and Sao Paulo Business School Professor Antonio Gelis-Filho argues that global policy planners must prepare to deal with the “improbable, but by all means possible, Soviet-style collapse of the United States.”

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2015/06/092015/06/09

Jack Davis: Modern Analytic Tradecraft

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, IO Impotency

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Commenting on Berto Jongman: Modernizing Analytical Training + Robert Steele & RECAP

Remember the Gorge Carver-Gorge Allen contrasting mindsets in predicting the outcome in Vietnam. The optimistic Carver argued , “if, if, if, we’re going to win. The pessimistic Allen countered: “unless, unless, unless we’re going to lose.”

In more formal argumentation, the “ifs” and “unlesses” are the ‘key assumptions” or “key variables” that are intended to support the estimated prediction. What have we here? Rarely a path to the truth.

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2015/06/092015/06/08

Worth a Look: One Voice Now

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Sources (Info/Intel)

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One Voice Now

“One voice made up of three hundred million people containing billions of brain cells all working together to solve the problems of today, making the world a better place for the children of tomorrow.” ~ David Frank ~

A “LOCAL ISSUES TELEVISION AND RADIO STATION” (Your Local Public Broadcasting Station) to send the information out to the community.

A “COMMUNITY COMPUTER” (Community Voter Database) to receive the calls (votes) from any touch-tone phone. The computer will verify the voter, ask what issue number they want to vote on, count the vote and prevent multiple voting. Issues of, by and for the people…

2015/06/092015/06/08

Jean Lievens: Can Evolution Explain Kindness? Are Political, Social, & Economic Altruism Important?

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

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The hard problem: Tom Stoppard on the limits of what science can explain

Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee

selfishness beats altruism within groups, but altruistic groups beat selfish ones

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Berto Jongman: Electricity from Living Plants

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Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones

Plant-e, a company based out of the Netherlands, has found a way to harness electricity from living plants, using them to power Wi-Fi hotspots, cell phone chargers, and even streetlights. The company debuted their project, called “Starry Sky,” in November of 2014 near Amsterdam, where they lit up more than 300 LED streetlights at two different sites. Their plant power technology is also being used to power the company’s headquarters in Wageningen.

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