http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/libertarian-atheists-have-highest-iq/question-2841489/NOT SURE WHY THIS IS SURPRISING. ITS SO OBVIOUS ITS PAINFUL
But then, nobody listens to smart people, they listen to USEFUL people. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 14:11:00 UTC
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/05/05/putins-human-rights-council-accidentally-posts-real-crimean-election-results-only-15-voted-for-annexation/KNEW IT. SAME IS FOR THE EAST. WE ARE SEEING 80% PREFERRING TO MAINTAIN UKRAINE.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 13:32:00 UTC
THE HIGH VALUE OF ATTACKING SYSTEMS
–“an attack on systems can magnify the effect of a small attack into a major global economic event. … The extreme productivity enabled by systems disruption creates the potential for non-state forces to adopt the strategies of maneuver and attrition in addition to those of almost endless supply of attackers could generate hundreds of millions, potentially billions, in damage. The cumulative effect of these attacks could grind down even the strongest nation-state. “–
–“We are staring at a future where defeat isn’t experienced all at once, but through an inevitable withering away of military, economic, and political power and through wasting conflicts with minor foes.”–
Robb, John (2008-04-01). Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (p. 32). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 11:00:00 UTC
PEOPLE NEED SOMETHING TO FIGHT IN FAVOR OF, NOT JUST AGAINST
It’s all well and good to understand that a small guerilla movement can topple the greatest nation. It’s all well and good that we agree that a government is corrupt and predatory. It is another thing to know what to replace it with. And how to replace it. Once you know how to replace it, and you show people the opportunities that come from that replacement, telling them how to achieve it is trivial. It’s terribly easy to bring a government and an economy to its knees even without big symbolic events. And it is much easier if the people bringing it to its knees feel that they have a moral objective, a plan for achieving it, and a plan for sustaining it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 10:40:00 UTC
A STATE THAT FIGHTS A GUERILLA MOVEMENT, WILL LOSE
–“Creveld realized that whenever a state takes on a guerrilla movement, it will lose. The reason is that when the strong are seen beating the weak (knocking down doors, roughing up people of interest, and shooting ragtag guerrillas), they are considered to be barbarians. This view, amplified by the media, will eventually eat away at the state’s ability to maintain moral cohesion and drastically damage its global image.”–
Robb, John (2008-04-01). Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (p. 28). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 10:35:00 UTC
WE HAVE THE MOST ARMED, MOST SKILLED POPULACE. WHY NOT USE IT?
—“The global adoption of proxy guerrilla and terrorist conflict led Lind et al. to develop a model for the next generation of interstate warfare. This fourth-generation warfare (4GW) codified the use of guerrilla and terrorist proxies as the primary means of warfare between states, large and small. In Lind et al.’ s view, 4GW was a method of warfare that allowed the weak forces to defeat the strong. Within the structure of a sponsored proxy conflict, 4GW was seen as a way to waste the strength of the strong— to bleed the target state dry morally and economically. The result is an eternal war that typically ends with the target state’s inevitable defeat.”—
Robb, John (2008-04-01). Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (p. 27). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 07:11:00 UTC
WE ARE BOTH FIGHTING FOR TRIBALISM
The islamists are fighting for tribalism. If their tribalism wasn’t wrapped in islamic anti-science and anti rationalism, I’d support it. But should we look at it another way? Did their states just fail faster because they were poorer? They want to preserve their low trust tribalism. we want to preserve our high trust tribalism. But both from the islamist and the aristocratic sides, we are trying to restore tribalism against the anti-tribal corporate state.
—“[CREVELD] His first conclusion was that the nation-state, as we know it, is in decline. The second was that warfare is undergoing a transformation to a new form that will be impossible for nation-states to defeat.”—
Robb, John (2008-04-01). Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (p. 28). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 07:08:00 UTC
ALL WARS ARE CIVIL WARS. ALL GUERRILLA WARS ARE MORAL CONFLICTS.
—“Unlike conventional wars of the first three generations, guerrilla wars are primarily moral conflicts.”—
Robb, John (2008-04-01). Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (p. 26). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 07:06:00 UTC
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/psychology_of_management/2014/05/open_plan_offices_the_new_trend_in_workplace_design.single.html#ixzz30vYjgxzHTHE BUSINESS VALUE OF “ENGINEERED MINGLING”
–“The purpose of all this engineered mingling? It encourages something that a Bloomberg spokesperson terms “institutional eavesdropping.” Employees get a sense of what’s going on in every part of the company—almost through osmosis. As Michael Bloomberg puts it in his book, workers “absorb information peripherally while focusing elsewhere.” And this fuller understanding of corporate doings seems to quell office paranoia. “Openness also constantly puts [employees] in front of their peers,” Bloomberg writes, “preventing childish fantasies that coworkers are out to get them.”–
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 05:50:00 UTC
–“A corrupt Nigeria won’t do much damage outside of its borders, but a corrupt States or Great Britain is a terrifying reality.”–
Don Finnegan
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 05:17:00 UTC