The quote, “We're just gerbils running on a wheel,” from Madeline Albright, is found on page 409 of David Halberstam's War in a Time of Peace.
Review: War in a Time of Peace–Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
Koko: The Science of Spying 1965
10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, IO Impotency, Movies
YouTube: The Science of Spying 1965
The Science of Spying. NBC show narrated by John Chancellor donated to the US government. Purchased from the US National Archives via Amazon. Also can be downloaded free.
Koko: See the comments for insights on how the attentive public is reacting to this film.
Phi Beta Iota: The reason we emphasize integrity on this website is because it has been so visibly lacking in the US Government, and especially so in relations between the secret intelligence world and the White House. It is now clear that a series of Presidents have abused their power when directors of central or national intelligence have been willing to prostitute themselves; while at the same time, and mostly during the Allen Dulles era, but also under others, the secret world has lied–has committed treason–to the President and his senior advisors. We continue to be skeptical of the alleged assassination and disposal of Bin Laden. More generally, the secret world today is largely worthless to the public or the public interest, and exists primarily to channel taxpayer resources to beltway bandits who fund corrupt members of Congress (in fairness to the beltway bandits, it is the corrupt Representatives doing the shaking down). “Intelligence” today is grotesquely immature and ill-suited to the complexities and nuances of the age.
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Event: 15-16 Oct NYC Singularity Summit
Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Technologies
SINGULARITY SUMMIT 2011 IN NEW YORK CITY 15-16 OCTOBER 2011
The Singularity Summit 2011 will be a TED-style two-day event at the historic 92nd Street Y in New York City. The confirmed speakers include futurist Ray Kurzweil, neuroscientist Christof Koch, PayPal founder Peter Thiel, MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, MIT polymath Alexander Wissner-Gross, DARPA challenge winner Riley Crane, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, economist Tyler Cowen, television personalities Jason Silva and Casey Pieretti, and robotics professors James McLurnkin and Robin Murphy.
To stay informed about the coming Summit, you can subscribe to the Singularity newsletter on their website.
RELATED LINKS:
• Pulse on The Singularity• NHNE Singularity Resource Page• Singularity University• NHNE Ray Kurzweil Resource Page• Transcendent Man (movie)• The Singularity Is Near (movie)
SINGULARITY AT PHI BETA IOTA:
Review: The Singularity Is Near–When Humans Transcend Biology (Hardcover)
Worth a Look: Singularity Summit & Building a Brain
Worth a Look: Singularity University
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on the War on Science
Graphic: Dialog, Deliberation, & Choice-Creating
Citizen-Centered, Innovation, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Jim Rough, author of Society's Breakthrough: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People, has emphasized that Choice-Creating is completely different from Dialog or Deliberation, and uses this chart to illuminate that vital point. Many choices DO NOT EXIST in the minds of one party or the other–they are CO-CREATED as part of a broad-ranging conversation rooted in clarity, diversity, and integrity.
Graphic: Public Common Sense: Cut Military Budget and Raise Taxes on Those Earning Over $250,000 As Individuals
Balance, Budgets & Funding, Citizen-Centered, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Reform, Strategy-Holistic Coherence
Event: Sept 26-27, Munich Germany, insideAR 2011 (Augmented Reality)
Augmented Reality, MobileA descriptive overview of the event is not posted
http://www.metaio.com/events/insidear-2011/
Also see this article which mentions the event.
Worth a Look: Program for Public Consultation
Worth A LookAbout
The Program for Public Consultation (PPC) is a newly-established joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. PPC has been established to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and to conduct public consultations. In particular it will work with government agencies to help them consult their citizens on key public policy issues that the government faces.
What Is Public Consultation?
Public consultation is a means to improve democratic governance by helping governments consult their citizenry on the key public policy issues the government faces. Public consultations are conducted with representative samples of the citizenry. Using standard scientific methods of random sampling, a sample is chosen and subsequently weighted to reflect the population census on all major demographic variables, thus producing an accurate microcosm of the citizenry.
Responding to the Crisis of Democracy
PPC was developed in response to extensive evidence that democracy is in a crisis. The core principles of democracy are widely endorsed around the world, especially the principle that the will of the people should be the legitimating basis for government decisions.However, there is a widespread perception in the publics of democratic countries that their governments do not serve the common good of the people, but rather serve organized special interests that have the means to exert disproportionate leverage over government decisions.
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