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Catholic Church Getting Serious About “Truth”
11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, History, InfoOps (IO), Politics of Science & Science of Politics, StrategyVATICAN-PHILOSOPHY Mar-22-2011 (360 words) With photos. xxxi
Vatican says church philosophy studies must combat suspicion of truth
 Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski talks about new norms for the ecclesiastical studies of philosophy. (CNS/Alessandro Serrano, Catholic Press Photo)
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When training priests and educating students in philosophy, the Catholic Church must combat a widespread sensation that there really is no such thing as permanent, objective truths, a new Vatican document said.
Because so many students are influenced by the cultural suspicion of truth, the Vatican said it will require an extra year of study before a student can earn a church-recognized bachelor's degree in philosophy.
Phi Beta Iota: Something very important is happening within the Catholic Church. The Most Holy Father Benedict XVI is a “convergence Pope” and moving on multiple fronts. He is seeking to reconcile religion with science; philosophy with theology; logic with pastoral direction. In short, His Holiness is deepening and elaborating on initiatives begun by Pope John Paul II, to include pro-active inter-faith and pro-active science and religion summits. Faith matters. History matters. Science matters. There is something happening here that is potentially a revolution in global human evolutionary psychology.
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Event: 17-18 May, Bentley Univ in Waltham, MA — 3rd Annual Intnl Conf on Conscious Capitalism
UncategorizedOn May 17 & 18, the Conscious Capitalism Institute is hosting a conference at Bentley, with the theme being Conscious leadership & Marketing. Some participants will be bestselling author Marianne Williamson, Whole Foods Founder John Mackay, marketing guru Faith Popcorn, Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jeffrey Hollender, Co-Founder and Former CEO at Seventh Generation and a stellar array of other speakers.
C-SPAN Hour on The Pentagon Labyrinth
Budgets & Funding, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, MoviesThe Pentagon Labyrinth on C-SPAN
Mar 11, 2011
Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust | Mott House
Three former, high-level Pentagon insiders take a critical look at how the Defense Department operates and where the money it receives goes. The three- Thomas Christie, Franklin Spinney and Pierre Sprey – are contributors to the book, The Pentagon Labyrinth. Danielle Brian, executive director .. Read More
Three former, high-level Pentagon insiders take a critical look at how the Defense Department operates and where the money it receives goes. The three- Thomas Christie, Franklin Spinney and Pierre Sprey – are contributors to the book, The Pentagon Labyrinth. Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), acts as moderator for the discussion.
Watch Video: 1 hour, 2 minutes
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10 Projects Toward a Superfluid Economy
03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence
emergent by design
10 Projects Moving Us Towards a Superfluid Economy
March 22, 2011
What is the future of money? And not just money, but currencies in general – from virtual currencies to timebanks to social currencies based around trust, identity, reputation, expertise and relationships. And not just currencies, a.k.a. tools that are supposed to represent a unit of measurement in order to transact, but also value exchange in general and the social behaviors that precede them.
So we’re really talking about The Superfluid Economy, the set of tools and behaviors that are developing to make economic exchange, transactions, payments, commerce, distributed collaboration, resource allocation, and social enterprise formation as frictionless and fluid as possible.
To kick off the conversation, I pulled up 10 projects that are innovating in this space which are either developing new products and services, or raising awareness through art and media. We’re excited to know that some of the initiatives below will be represented at Contact!
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1. The Metacurrency Project .. 2. Community Forge .. 3. Bitcoin .. 4. Symbionomics .. 5. Payswarm .. 6. Ripple .. 7. OurGoods .. 8. WingCash .. 9. Open Bank Project .. 10. time/bank
Phi Beta Iota: Each generation marks their own path. The above list does not include the real pioneers of Open Money and community credits. Learn more at Open Money, Openmoney, and P2P Open Money Category.
Blocking the French, Too Little Too Late No Strategy
02 Diplomacy, 05 Energy, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Government, IO Sense-Making, Military, Peace Intelligence
Libya, appears to me to be a US-UK venture, having little to do with Gaddafy. Rather, in significant part it is driven by the goal of squelching potential and logical French influence in the in the Middle East and its leadership in accommodating (establishing the terms of integration) Islam in Europe and the West.
Mr Malloch-Brown is one of the few legitimate contenders to Anglo statesmanship in this era. But I find the following to be misleading in trying to make the case that this was a worthy mission, but too hard to bring off diplomatically. I believe these to be talking points.
Mark Malloch-Brown: Diplomatic ‘triumph' at the UN is unravelling already
The Council might have begun by contemplating two clear political alternatives and then developing a military strategy that flowed from that choice
Independent UK, Tuesday 22 March 2011 Read article…
Phi Beta Iota: The sweeping public movements across North Africa and the Middle East are if anything an indictment of what one author calls the “fifty-year wound” and a validation of what another author calls the “unconquerable world.” Vastly more benevolent strategic imperatives, such as Ambassador Mark Palmer's vision for providing all 44 dictators with an exit strategy (42 of them “best pals” of the USA at this time), have been ignored.
