Answers: Robert Steele to Kevjn Lim on Big Data

Kevjn Lim is an independent writer and Middle East foreign policy analyst at Open Briefing: The Civil Society Intelligence Agency. In the latter half of 2013, he was Turkey representative for the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), covering the Syrian crisis in the northern governorates and Turkey. From 2007-2011, he served as delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in …

Berto Yongman: Red (Team) Analysis Society

Worth a look. The Red (Team) Analysis Society Strategic Foresight & Warning, Anticipatory Intelligence, Political Risk Assessment Creating anticipatory intelligence is nothing else than deciphering the dynamics of the world… What will happen to us in the future? How shall we fare, collectively and individually? How can we improve how we deal with the future? How …

Tom Atlee: Random Selection as Nature’s Way of Dealing with Special Interest Manipulation

What is it about Random Selection?? In recent months I’ve discovered that random selection offers unexpected gifts to our efforts to create more fair, functional, and intelligent politics and governance. I share a key dynamic that defines random selection and show how it has been applied historically and might be used more in specific institutions …

Berto Jongman: Philosophers and Ubber-Technos Get Funding to Announce End of Humanity — And They Get It WRONG.

But What Would the End of Humanity Mean for Me? Preeminent scientists are warning about serious threats to human life in the not-distant future, including climate change and superintelligent computers. Most people don’t care. Sometimes Stephen Hawking writes an article that both mentions Johnny Depp and strongly warns that computers are an imminent threat to …

Event: 21 May 2014 1500-2100 NYC Liberation Technology Internet Society Reclaim.CC

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” ― UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Open Data, Global Game, Electronic Magna Carta, .nyc, Privacy, Open Hardware, Inclusive Access, …

Eagle: Charles Hugh Smith on America’s Nine Classes

Summary: 1. Deep State 2. Oligarchs (1%) 3. New Nobility 4. Upper Caste 5. State Nomenklatura (9% with Upper Caste) 6. Middle Class (20%) 7. Working Poor (30%) 8. State Dependents (20%) 9. Mobile Creatives (8%)   America’s Nine Classes: The New Class Hierarchy Eight of the nine classes are hidebound by conventions, neofeudal and …