Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1607 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Lisa Garr

5.0 out of 5 stars UPLIFTING – Blends Science, Spiritual, Practical, May 19, 2015

I first encountered Lisa Garr when she reached out to interview me about my Open Source Everything Manifesto, and I found her to be one of the most charming as well as versatile (beyond intelligent – open and creative) interviewers I have ever met. That secured my attention going into the future and now I follow her offerings with great interest.

This book could not be timelier as America the Beautiful – and tens of millions of families — enter a time of great stress and general dysfunction.

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David Bollier: City as Commons – Open City

P2P / Panarchy

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LabGov Pioneers the Paradigm of City as Commons

EXTRACT

The goal is to build peer-to-peer platforms – physical, digital and institutional – to advance three main purposes: “living together (collaborative services), growing together (co-ventures), making together (co-production).” The CO-Mantova project may soon start a CO-Mantova Commons School.

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Jean Lievens: 3 Ways Humans Create Poverty

01 Poverty

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3 Ways Humans Create Poverty

Poverty isn’t just a fact of nature. We made it happen, and we can fix it.

“It is impossible to solve an entrenched problem like mass poverty without understanding how it came into being. There’s every reason to believe we can overcome poverty, if we take the time to understand and learn the lessons from how it is created.”

Here are just three ways mass poverty has been created.

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SchwartzReport: On TPP Obama Betrays Public

Commerce, Corruption, Government

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This report arguments the Stiglitz, Sanders, and Warren papers warning us about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Obama for whatever reason is defending the indefensible. It is a grave error with horrible consequences.

I’m Not Making This Up: Corporations Use Trade Deals To Attack U.S. Law

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Anthony Judge: Transcendent Integrity

Cultural Intelligence

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Transcendent Integrity via Dynamic Configuration of Sub-understandings?

Interactive orbital animations of world views using data-driven documents (d3.js)

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Ray McGovern: WIlliam & Mary Honors War Criminal Condolezza Rice

Academia, Corruption

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William & Mary Honors War Criminal

Exclusive: Condoleezza Rice has crossed the threshold into esteemed celebrity – a welcomed speaker at this year’s College of William and Mary commencement – despite her record as the liar who sold the illegal war in Iraq and choreographed torture at CIA “black sites,” writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

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Nader Ale Ebrahim: Open Knowledge

Access, Advanced Cyber/IO, Peace Intelligence

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The Future of Knowledge Sharing for Development in a Digital Age: Delivering an open and fair digital society.

Rachel Playforth introduces a new report on how digital technologies might contribute to or damage development agendas in the coming years. Through scenario development planning, the project investigated the landscape of developing countries in the digital age and how practitioners and policymakers might best respond. None of the scenarios below represents the most desirable outcome, but by working backwards from an ideal future, participants were able to develop key strategies for positive change.