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2013/02/17

Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Meets Minority Report – HUMANS Plus Digital Tools Mapping the Pulse of the Planet and Harmonizing Delivery of Aid

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Video: When Crisis Mapping Meets Minority Report

Posted on February 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

This short video was inspired by the pioneering work of the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF). A global network of 1,000+ digital humanitarians in 80+ countries, the SBTF is responsible for some of the most important live crisis mapping operations that have supported both humanitarian and human rights organizations over the past 2+ years. Today, the SBTF is a founding and active member of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) and remains committed to rapid learning and innovation thanks to an outstanding team of volunteers (“Mapsters”) and their novel use of next-generation humanitarian technologies.

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VIMEO VIDEO: NGC Patrick Meier – Crisis Mapper :30

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National Geographic Channel showcase Emerging Explorer Patrick Meier in a new hyper-real commercial spot.

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2013/02/172013/02/17

SchwartzReport: Morning After Pill, Jailing the Poor, Gut & GMO Toxins

Cultural Intelligence

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This study shows how strongly women feel about controlling their own bodies.

5.8M Women Have Used ‘Morning After' Pill
SHARON JAYSON – USA TODAY

Here is the latest on the New American Slavery trend.

Miss a Traffic Ticket, Go to Jail?
ALEX KANE, Staff Reporter – Salon

A wonderful scientific story of understanding the physical processes by which our bodies work.

Gut Bacteria Liberate Hidden Toxins Found In Grains
LOUISA DALTON – Chemical and Engineering News

2013/02/162013/02/17

Graphic: New JCS Medal — We Who Sit, Serve

07 Other Atrocities, Capabilities-Force Structure, Cultural Intelligence

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Printable Slide: JCS Sitting Medal

Phi Beta Iota: In our collective view, every member of the JSC now sitting is richly deserving of indictment and forced retirement with at least a one grade reduction if not more. Similarly, every senior executive officer (SES) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense should be “let go.” Treason may be too strong a word for what they are doing in the face of sequester, but one can certainly conclude that they all lack — to a man — a sufficiency of intelligence with integrity necessary to do what they are supposed to do. Among the civilian SES, silence and complacency join idiocy and ineptitude as grounds for termination.

2013/02/162013/02/18

DefDog: Air Force Creates Valor Medal for Video Kills UPDATED 18 Feb 2013

Cultural Intelligence, Military

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UPDATED 18 Feb 2013 to add Reactions

This is absolutely insane….ranks higher than a Bronze Star for Valor and cannot be awarded for serving in a combat zone. The Air Force pushed it in an effort to control the Drone and Cyber environment….Air Force would not let any comments from Afghanistan….payoff for the homage of the Air Force Generals? Most likely………

Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars

WASHINGTON (AP) — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.

But the troops who launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foot in the combat zone. Now their battlefield contributions may be recognized with the first new combat-related medal to be created in decades.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that the Pentagon is creating a medal that can be awarded to troops who have a direct impact on combat operations, but do it well away from any combat zone.

Read full article.

One comment online:

Thought at first it was a hoax but it’s not and it’s precedence sits just below the DFC. It was bad enough when NATO suggested the Courageous Restraint Award but this worse. This is Panetta’s going away slap in the face to our Nations warriors. There are plenty of rewards available for support billets without insulting/degrading front line troops. What’s next? Purple Heart for monitor eye strain or the dreaded carpal tunnel syndrome?

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2013/02/162013/02/16

Berto Jongman: Catholic Church — Dead or Just Comatose? + Catholic / Pedophilia RECAP

Cultural Intelligence

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Reading between the lines is most interesting.

Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

New York Times, February 16, 2013

EXTRACT

“What’s going to be very key in this conclave is the person, the personality,” Monsignor Figueiredo said. “Is he a man who can really speak to the hearts of people in this secularized, de-Christianized world where people, let’s face it, are leaving the church and need to be attracted to the message?”

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2013/02/162013/02/16

Reference: Letter Establishing the Pontifical Council for Culture

Cultural Intelligence

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Original in Italian: Personal Letter to the Cardinal Secretary of State, 20 May 1982

Eminence.

From the beginning of my pontificate, I felt that the Church's dialogue with the cultures of our time was a vital field, in which the fate of the world in this part of the twentieth century. Indeed, there is a fundamental dimension, able to consolidate or shake it to the ground systems that structure the whole of humanity, and to liberate human existence, individual and collective, from threats on it. This fundamental dimension of man is, in its entirety. Now man lives a fully human life thanks to culture. “Yes, the future of man depends on the culture,” I stated in my speech on June 2, 1980 UNESCO, addressing interlocutors so diverse in their backgrounds and their beliefs, adding: “We find ourselves in the field of culture, fundamental reality that unites us … We gather around the man and thereby in a sense, in him, man. ”

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2013/02/162013/02/16

Robert Steele & DNI Anonymous: On Drones & Ethics

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military

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There are a few officers still serving that I hold in high regard. Below is a discussion I had with one such officer via email recently.

DNI Anon:

Current discussion about drones to kill “high-value targets” may miss the point, ethically and politically. Discussion has centered on the toll a drone exacts on nearby luckless individuals and the fact that some high value-targets can lay claim to being U.S. citizens.

The technology for remote killing has become increasingly precise—from carpet bombing to TLAMS to smart bombs, now hellfire missiles. Extrapolate forward to a remote controlled weapon that promptly and reliably impacts just a single, targeted individual, absolutely no collateral damage. Better, or worse? The catch is the targeting process itself. Our national mantra is “innocent until proven guilty”. How proven and, to what standard of proof? Do we abide the Blackstone ratio, “better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”?

The larger issue, however, is that as precision increases, the barriers to use drop. Previously, a more scatter-shot killing on another’s sovereign soil might occasion war. But, precision technology has lowered the profile for extra-territorial attack and war need not be the outcome. Good, so far as it goes, but less constrained technology can mean less restrained actors …and, technology proliferates.

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