Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1737 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Establishing Social Media Hashtag Standards for Disaster Response

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has just published an important, must-read report on the use of social media for disaster response. As noted by OCHA, this document was inspired by conversations with my team and I at QCRI. We jointly recognize that innovation in humanitarian technology is not enough. What is needed—and often lacking—is innovation in policymaking. Only then can humanitarian technology have widespread impact. This new think piece by OCHA seeks to catalyze enlightened policymaking.

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2014/11/052014/11/05

SchwartzReport: IRS Screws Legal Marijuana Industry

Corruption, Government, Idiocy

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This is a development that could assure the continuance of a marijuana black market because even where state law makes marijuana legal the federal tax code will make it impossible to create a functioning business of legal marijuana. That will be a big win for all those rice bowls are filled by prohibition continuing. It also means the ongoing destruction of tens of thousands of America families will continue.

Marijuana profits up in smoke under IRS rules

Phi Beta Iota: We are long overdue for the complete abolishment of the US tax code and the IRS, substituting the Automated Payment Transaction (APT) Tax.

2014/11/052014/11/05

En Espanol Resena de Robert David STEELE Vivas

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Robert David STEELE Vivas

Robert David Steele Vivas es un ex-espía, hacker honorario y crítico nº1 de Amazon en textos de no-ficción, leyendo en 98 categorías. Como Director Ejecutivo (no remunerado) del Earth Intelligence Network (Red de Inteligencia de la Tierra), ha liderado un equipo en pos de la creación de conceptos para la restauración del poder al ámbito de lo público, con soporte de decisiones públicas (inteligencia), presupuesto público y un Juego Global (Global Game) público. Robert ofrece tres tipos de presentaciones en inglés o español.

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2014/11/042014/11/05

Review: Revolution

5 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Banks, Fed, Money, & Concentrated Wealth, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Change & Innovation, Civil Society, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Democracy, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Impeachment & Treason, Insurgency & Revolution, Justice (Failure, Reform), Military & Pentagon Power, Misinformation & Propaganda, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Philosophy, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Priorities, Public Administration, Religion & Politics of Religion, Survival & Sustainment, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)

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Russell Brand

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Intricate, Non-Violent, and Optimistic, November 4, 2014

In relation to the 2,000 plus non-fiction books I have reviewed here at Amazon, this book is brilliant. Normally I would consider giving it four stars for lacking an index and endnotes, obviously needed for the poorly educated morons that cannot grasp the many (many) direct references to top authors and thinkers. For crying out loud, Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century is received by the author in his home and cited in this book, as are so many others. So a solid five stars for impact and self-made erudition.

Let me state very clearly that the publisher has sodomized this author by not including an index, a bibliography, or endnotes. As the top Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, reviewing books across 98 distinct non-fiction categories, I am blown away by the clever, poetic, and pointed manner in which the author has integrated a vast (vast) range of reading and personal conversations into this book.

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2014/11/042014/11/05

Review: London – the Information Capital: 100 Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You View the City

5 Star, Atlases & State of the World, Best Practices in Management, Change & Innovation, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Games, Models, & Simulations, Geography & Mapping, Information Society, Intelligence (Commercial), Intelligence (Public), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Public Administration

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James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

5.0 out of 5 stars From coffee table to scientific salon, a worthy offering, November 4, 2014

This is a spectacular offering on multiple fronts. On the low-end, it has got to be the coolest coffee table book around, something that could be usefully offered in every waiting room across London — and hopefully inspire copycats for other cities including Paris and New York and Dubai.

At the high end, the book offers the most current available understanding of just what can be gleaned from “big data” that is available from open databases — one can only imagine the additional value to be had from closed data bases (money movement, for example). And of course we have to persist in our demands that all data and the software and hardware needed to process the data be open source so that it is affordable, interoperable, and scalable.

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2014/11/04

Graphic: Cahil-Keyes Multi-Scale Metamap Beta-2

Geospatial

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2014/11/04

Yoda: The Science Of Entanglement & The Illusion Of Separation – SAND 2014

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

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Infinitely integral, we are.

The Science Of Entanglement & The Illusion Of Separation – SAND 2014

With great gratitude I found myself with like-minded scientists and thought leaders at this year’s Science and Nonduality Conference (SAND) where a common ground was sought between neuroscientists, physicists and the consciousness community. This year’s theme was “Entanglement” and recognition that “when science drills down into the core of even the most solid-looking object, separateness dissolves, and all that remains are relationships extending throughout and possibly beyond, space and time.”