Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1686 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Last August-September I wrote “Polarization, Conversation, and Collective Intelligence” – my most thorough exploration of polarization – at the request of the Integral Leadership Review. It was not published on the date I expected and I finally moved on to other things. Only today did I discover that it has indeed been published.* So now I can share it with you online here.

It is very long and in some early parts more abstract than my usual writing, so I'm not going to print it here. Instead, I'll give you a summary review so you can taste its scope and decide how much of it you wish to dig into more deeply. Read more.

2015/01/19

Berto Jongman: Fear Artificial Stupidity Not Artificial Intelligence

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency

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Fear artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence

Stephen Hawking thinks computers may surpass human intelligence and take over the world. We won't ever be silicon slaves, insists an AI expert

Mark Bishop in NewScientist

It is not often that you are obliged to proclaim a much-loved genius wrong, but in his alarming prediction on artificial intelligence and the future of humankind, I believe Stephen Hawking has erred. To be precise, and in keeping with physics – in an echo of Schrödinger's cat – he is simultaneously wrong and right.

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2015/01/192015/01/20

Owl: The Perfect Saudi Storm Update 2

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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Saudi Arabia may be plunging into an abyss, but the various commentators, while sounding the alarm as they are wont to do, tend to ignore the origins of ISIS (funded by SA and armed by US), the false flag aspects of Paris, and the larger global imbalances that are destined to put dictators and the 1% out of absolute power at some point in the future. We are dealing with a contagion of our own making, while ignoring our own severe deficiencies across multiple fronts (political, social, economic, financial, cultural). Here is one headline. Additional commentary and many others are below the line.

Saudi Arabia Plunges into an Abyss

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2015/01/192015/01/19

Yoda: Oscars Snub “Selma”

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Why the Oscars’ Omission of ‘Selma’ Matters

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and given the context, it is an interesting moment to ask whether it really matters that the Motion Picture academy failed to nominate the black director and the black lead actor of “Selma,” the King biopic, for Oscars.

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2015/01/192015/01/18

Mongoose: Israel War Crimes Under Investigation by International Criminal Court — About Time!

07 Other Atrocities

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Treason — and war crimes — are easy to detect — if you have integrity.

Court to Look Into Possible Israeli War Crimes in Palestinian Territories

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court opened a preliminary examination on Friday of possible war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, the first formal step that could lead to charges against Israelis.

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2015/01/182015/01/18

Robert Steele: #ElectoralReform – Surging Globally, Coming to USA At Some Point

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Electoral Reform (Twitter hashtag #ElectoralReform) is how one restores integrity to the electoral process (not just elections, but how citizens exercise voice and voice at all times) and hence to governance, the economy, and society. Although the US has six small parties (the Libertarian is the largest, Green the most vocal, and Reform the most open to larger concepts), they have been isolated from one another. Their leaders refuse to focus on Electoral Reform. Until that changes, they will remain marginalized and irrelevant to the future of the USA.

Multi-party system will put electoral reform back on the table

Proportional representation will soon make a comeback, and one major reason for this is the rise of the smaller parties.

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2015/01/182015/01/17

Berto Jongman: Four Out of Nine Bioloigical & Environmental “Boundaries” Critical

03 Environmental Degradation, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy

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Humans Cross Another Danger Line for the Planet

Five years ago an impressive, international group of scientists unveiled nine biological and environmental “boundaries” that humankind should not cross in order to keep the earth a livable place. To its peril, the world had already crossed three of those safe limits: too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, too rapid a rate of species loss and too much pouring of nitrogen into rivers and oceans—primarily in the form of fertilizer runoff.

Now we have succeeded in transgressing a fourth limit: the amount of forestland being bulldozed or burned out of existence (see map below). Less and less forest reduces the planet’s ability to absorb some of that carbon dioxide and to produce water vapor, crucial to plant life.

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