The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“American soft power is vanishing” by jonl on January 6, 2011 Bruce Sterling and I are well into our annual State of the World conversation over on the WELL. Bruce, who’s traveled the world all his life and has been in unique situations (like his travels through Russia and Eastern Europe after the fall of …
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Working for change: Samasource redefines international aid December 10, 2010 On Need to Know, we do a lot of reporting about the world’s problems. But we’re premiering a new series about people coming up with creative solutions — it’s called “Agents of Change.” Click on title to read short intro and option to view video…. …
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SEE ALSO: Journal: Gorgon Stare (All Eyes, No Brain) The American Way of War: If You Can See Everything, Can You Know Anything? With Air Force’s new drone, ‘we can see everything,’ in today’s Washington Post (attached below) is a good example of how the high-cost addiction to techno war is running amok. One thing …
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1 January 2011 Haiti: One Year Later (TheNonProfitTimes) Haitians live in a make-shift camp close to the airport. Port au Prince Haiti was rocked by a massive earthquake, Tuesday January 12, devastating the city and leaving thousands dead. Photo Marco Dormino 31 December 2010 FILE – In this Nov. 13, 2010 file photo, an ambulance …
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Seven years ago Tom Atlee, our mentor on collective intelligence and community self-organization for resilience and sustainability, began focusing on “ways of communicating.” Responding to a recent query from us about alternatives to partisan politics or dictatorships, he offered up the below links, each of which has many other links, as food for reflection. 1. …
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2006: BASIC: Open Source Intelligence Familiarization Documents (Original) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) leads to Information Operations (IO), which leads to Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2), which leads to Cyber-Command (CYCO6), a mis-nomer, but representing all information in all languages all the time, with every person and every artifact having their own IP …
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Last week, in the aftermath of the No Labels debacle, I focused on the Diversity of Voices & Values, while standing to salute Tom Atlee’s proposition that integral CITIZENSHIP trumps any form of alleged Transpartisanship. In the new year my focus is going to be on creating infinite wealth for all–on a moral rebirth of …
