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Worth a Look: Journal of SOCMINT (Bi-Lingual)

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Journal of SOCMINT

Social Media Intelligence (SMI)  —  A (very) short introduction

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SchwartzReport: USA Divisions

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schwartz reportAs More Move to the City, Does Rural America Still Matter?
CHRISTOPHER DOERING – USA TODAY

This is what is happening to American society almost without comment or public discussion. What this report misses is that as our government is currently structured each state has two senators. We now have Federal Senators who represent a few hundred thousand people, and others that represent tens of millions. As the emptying of rural America continues this trend will be exacerbated, and it will lend force to the Gre! at Schism Trend.

U.S. States Flirt With Major Tax Changes
NANETTE BYRNES – Reuters

We are entering into a very interesting period of transition moving power back to the states. This is part of the Great Schism Trend. The Theocratic Right, unable to control national policy in the way they would like, have realized that they can get control at the state level — in certain states. And they have. As a result they are implementing their social vision. In some Red value states it is now almost impossible for a poor woman to get re! productive healthcare or a pregnancy termination. And, as this report makes clear, in those same Theocratic Right value states they are now going to impose their Randian economic vision. It is going to be interesting to see how this turns out. So far Red value states are generally recipients not donors; their programs are made possible through the underwriting of Blue value states.

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NIGHTWATCH: French with UK Lift & Africans Handle Mali — SOF in Africa at Greater Risk? Islamists and Food Security — Islamists versus Separatists

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence
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Mali-France: Last Friday, France began its direct intervention in the Malian civil war, at the request of the Bamako government after Islamists, terrorist and jihadis captured a key town on the road from the north to Bamako. The immediate French objective was to stop the jihadis at Konna and to deter them from moving farther south to capture Bamako. Konna had been the boundary between the Islamist and government held regions.

French Rafale fighter jets bombed Islamist rebel targets in central Mali for three days. With French Air Force support, Malian forces – almost certainly with French ground forces –recaptured Konna on Saturday, a day after it was seized by Islamist rebels.

A Malian rebel spokesman said the French also bombed targets in the towns of Gao, Lere and Douentz, over the weekend.

France's Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French intervention on Friday had prevented rebels from seizing Bamako itself. He said air raids would continue in the coming days. He also said that France has deployed about 550 soldiers to Mali, split between Bamako and the town of Mopti, 500 km northeast, as part of “Operation Serval” – named after an African wildcat.

The French foreign minister made it clear that France was now targeting Islamist bases in the north of Mali and said Algeria, which shares a long border with Mali, had given permission for its air space to be used for bombing raids “without limit”.

Islamist rebels reportedly were abandoning Timbuktu and other northern towns to try to escape the French air attacks for which they have no defense.

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Free Training Handbooks

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This is what we have found to date. Please let us know if you find another handbook that helps further the concept of public intelligence in the public interest.  The historic contributions are the “best in class” offerings of over 750 speakers at the annual international conference on “National Security & National Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions,” (1992-2006).

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Tom Atlee: Citizen Wisdom Councils – OUR Treasure

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Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

An unsung treasure for facilitators and civilizations

Back in the mid-90's I discovered Jim Rough's Wisdom Council formathttp://www.co-intelligence.org/P-wisdomcouncil.html and began promoting it through my network as a way to increase the co-intelligence of a community. I loved the design of it – every 3-12 months randomly selecting one or two dozen ordinary people to reflect for a few days on what their community needed and to bring their conclusions back to their community. It is promoted today by Jim's Center for Wise Democracy

There are many different initiatives that are using the term “Wisdom Council” these days, and all of them have their own gifts to offer. What I particularly appreciate about Jim's approach, is that instead of tapping the wisdom of a group of elders, it is about tapping the wisdom of ordinary people, on behalf of the larger whole. The basic idea is to gather together a diverse microcosm of that larger whole. This microcosm is then invited into a conversational “greenhouse” environment, where they are supported to engage their best creative efforts toward understanding and addressing the needs of that larger whole.

By 1999, however, I was becoming concerned that I knew little about Dynamic Facilitation (DF), the process used in the Wisdom Council. I decided to take one of Jim Rough's workshops, which happened to be during the same week of the big 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. It was an exciting week, during which I realized that DF could have transformed people's efforts to deal with the WTO.

I came away extremely impressed with DF's potential. Over the following years I took a few other DF courses and was involved in some gatherings using DF, including a Wisdom Council in Ashland, Oregon. I came to the conclusion that DF was the most powerful process I'd ever seen for transforming conflict into breakthroughs – a skill sorely needed in our world today.

I've written my own description of the process here. I invite you to explore it and the descriptions on Jim's website. In this video interview, UK consultant Alex Nairn offers an excellent description of DF. If you want to delve further into it, check out the DF manual by Rosa Zubizarreta. She's agreed to offer my readers a free pdf of the 2008 version, for which you can contact her through her website. (I coaxed Rosa to a DF training early in 2000 – and it changed her life. She returned the favor by helping me create The Tao of Democracy.)

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Skype with Robert Steele — Individual or Group

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Robert David STEELE Vivas
Robert David STEELE Vivas

Individual Skype with Robert $100, Group Skype $250.

You are free to be an entreprenuer, I have no problem addressing a full auditorium you collect $500 or more, donate $250.

My objective is to reach as many as possible across the USA and elsewhere, with a simple message: “the truth at any cost lowers all other costs.”




I will email you a receipt and then we can coordinate directly on timing.

I can speak on any topic across the 98 categories in which I read, and am particularly conscious of the topics covered in the below two lists of lists of books I have reviewed, and of course the discipline of intelligence, which is retarded and corrupt as practiced in the USA.  I also recommend my 6 Star List.

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive Future-Oriented)

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Negative Status-Quo)

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)

6 Star Special (157)

I will say with clarity that I am certain that integrity is coming back into vogue.  Those of us that have been the gold standard for integrity during these dark days will be valued again in the future, and we will reverse the terrible directions imposed on us all by white collar criminals and their self-made political servants.

Available for short and longer-term assignments, globally mobile as a geographic bachelor.  Have brain, will travel.

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Robert David STEELE Vivas

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