Ron Paul’s Moment?

Politico The Arena, 26 April 2011 The Ron Paul Revolution in 2008 and the tea party movement that followed shows that the American conservative mainstream is starting to awaken to its own pre-neocon past and potential future. It is seeing itself as the bulwark needed to protect our Republic, the rule of law, individual liberty …

Connecting the Dots: ALL of Them

Contribution to Google Group Next Net Medard Gabel, co-creator with Buckminster Fuller of the analog World Game, created the architecture concept and staffing-funding model for the digital EarthGame(TM).  Learn more here. About: EarthGame and World Brain Review: Designing A World That Works For All Who’s Who in Earth Intelligence: Medard Gabel Worth a Look: Medard …

Search: 2012 aftermath

2012 is a marvelous opportunity to apply intelligence with integrity.  Mature intelligence, with integrity totally ingrained, would integrate history, science, faith, and cultural diversity. Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence Graphic: Information Operations (IO) Cube There are three approaches to 2012 aftermath:

Search: osint vs humint

osint vs humint Machine search–ugly. The answer: 1.  Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a sub-discipline of all of the traditional disciplines, as well as a discipline in its own right, but it is closest to Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and should be managed concurrently with HUMINT, which has fifteen slices, only four of which are classified.  …

Participatory (Crowd-Sourced) Futures Planning

whether talking about a intelligent knowledge infrastructure, robert’s global brain, or suresh’s project matching for climate change initiatives, this article seemed useful. Noah Raford Large-scale participatory futures systems Futurescaper is an online tool for making sense of the drivers, trends and forces that will shape the future.  As a user interface system, it is horrible. …

Seth Goden: The [Public] Realization is Now

I of II:  The [public] realization is now New polling out this week shows that Americans are frustrated with the world and pessimistic about the future. They’re losing patience with the economy, with their prospects, with their leaders (of both parties). What’s actually happening is this: we’re realizing that the industrial revolution is fading. The …