InfowarCon 2015 will be focusing on:
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▪ ISIS / Cyber Terrorism
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▪ Russian Cyber Theory
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▪ The Use of Social Media & Perception Management as a Weapon of War
Howard Rheingold: Mindfulness
Cultural Intelligence
Good infotention advice — it applies, I believe, to the parts of the day when the flow of info online is akin to the flow of thoughts. Info overload is actually attention overload.
Michael Kearns: On the Nature of Leadership
Cultural Intelligence
The Nature of Leadership–An Essay
PDF (8 Pages): Kearns Leadership Essay 94
Phi Beta Iota: New perspectives on leadership — long in gestation — are emergent. What jumps out to us are the convergence of leaders as facilitators and educators — not “bosses” — and the expectation that leaders are committed to real change, not simply going through the motions toward retirement and a second job, as all of our so-called leaders do today.
Full text below the fold.
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Antechinus: TPP Legal Attrocity — Parallel Legal System Joins Existing 1% versus 99% “Divide” to Further Screw the Public
01 Poverty, 02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
Unveiling of Parallel Legal System for Foreign Corporations Will Fuel TPP Controversy, Further Complicate Obama’s Push for Fast Track
The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) Investment Chapter, leaked today, reveals how the pact would make it easier for U.S. firms to offshore American jobs to low-wage countries while newly empowering thousands of foreign firms to seek cash compensation from U.S. taxpayers by challenging U.S. government actions, laws and court rulings before unaccountable foreign tribunals. After five years of secretive TPP negotiations, the text – leaked by WikiLeaks –proves that growing concerns about the controversial “investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) system that the TPP would extend are well justified.
Michael Kearns: TruthOut on Time to Talk About the Next System
AccessIt's Time to Talk About the Next System
Cecilia Gingerich, TruthOut, 31 March 2015
EXTRACT
It follows that for a systemic crisis, relief will come only through systemic solutions. This means structural changes to the political and economic systems, and a radical shift in social and cultural norms. Of course, accomplishing this will be no small task and will not look anything like the short-term, financialized growth of the 1990s. The necessary solutions will be distinct from those offered in the past and will require a significant amount of creativity and cooperation. These systemic solutions are the focus of a new project titled the Next System Project.
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SchwartzReport: Peter Thiel on the Death of American Democracy – Where He Is Right — And Wrong
Access, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government
This is about as clear a statement of the noncarbon generation high tech mogul perspective as I have read. The article also gives an accurate, I believe, critique as to where he is in error. Most fundamentally I think Thiel has confused process and specific circumstances. I think democratic government can work very well. It certainly does so in many other countries. There is a reason why Danes are happy, and Americans are not. It is not working well here because of corruption, unlimited money in politics, and the Republican gridlock that has produced, and the compromised nature of our regulatory agencies. There is nothing wrong with the Founders' vision, and everything wrong with its execution. American politics is to the Founders' democratic republic as Fundamentalist Pre-millennial Dispensationlist Christianity is to Jesus' teachings.
Why PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel thinks American democracy is dead
Sepp Hasslberger: Jailing Bankers
Commerce, Corruption, Ethics, Government
Bankers can (and should) be jailed for fraud… Iceland shows the way.
Iceland Jails Four Top Bankers for Fraud in Landmark Case
Iceland has jailed four bankers for market manipulation in a landmark case which sets a precedent for the rest of the world. The verdict relates to corruption at the Kaupthing bank, which collapsed after the financial crisis in 2008 due to fraud at the highest levels.
Proving to the world that even bankers aren't above the law
