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Thomas Barnett At TED about Pentagons New Map For War And Peace

Posted on Jan 4th, 2009 by Albert  : ~ Albert
A short video Intro to work and approach of my favorite strategic thinker Thomas PM Barnett. he brings civil society and strategic thinking and acting together for the post 9/11 time. Innovative, imaginative and radically clear.

 http://www.ted.com
In this bracingly honest and funny talk, international security strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering US military: Break it in two. He suggests the military re-form into two groups: a Leviathan force, a small group of young and fierce soldiers capable of swift and immediate victories; and an internationally supported network of System Administrators, an older, wiser, more diverse organization that actually has the diplomacy and power it takes to build and maintain peace.


Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for war and peace



http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/

And a compilation of some blog entries with reference to Toms work:

 From the Clash to the Confluence of Civilizations

Posted on Dec 21st, 2006 by  Albert
This is a hint to the Washington Summit of SDi in January 2007. It deals with macro*Memetics and I consider this approach -though not enough advanced in the SDi learnig curve -as currently the benchmark... More »



Shaping a Free World and Foreign Relations

Posted on Nov 3rd, 2007 by  Albert
Preparing for Grand Berlin Launch of European Council on Foreign Relations I Located different voices and contributions which will be most interesting and relevant to interact with. Especially Mark Leonard and Timothy Garton Ash are brilliant... More »

Global Excellence in Corporate Blogging

Posted on Nov 22nd, 2007 by  Albert
After the many Prizes this year for this and that I want to add one very personal acknowledgment for a Global Coporate Blog I discovered recently in this article: At the Nexus of IT and ET... More »



Reconsidering Role of Warrior in Our Post-Enlightenment World

Posted on Jan 8th, 2008 by  Albert
Another insightful review of book from Lee Harris "The Suizide of reason -Radical Islam is a Threat to the World". this time by Edward Rothstein in NYT. The other one was posted by ~C4 here... More »


Report Calls for Radical Overhaul of Nato

Posted on Feb 1st, 2008 by  Albert
The global new emrging world order is in need of fresh security architectures too. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO -did a good job during the Cold War. In uncertain times after the end... More »


International Isnt Just IBM`s First Name

Posted on Feb 23rd, 2008 by  Albert
Busienss Week is reflecting changes in IBM strategy and global orientation. Global Integrated Enterprise as Sam Palmisano et al put it. This shift in philosophy and direction is remarkable. And the  Innovation Jam 2006 in... More »



Probing the Edges of Globalization

Posted on Feb 29th, 2008 by  Albert
Finishing two great workshops about Future and Dynamics in Dubai and Abu Dhabi (and greater GCC Area)I just checked this most insightful sequence of Blog Entries of Stephen F. De Angelis from Enterprise Resilience Managment Blog... More »



Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing and China Bashing

Posted on Jul 31st, 2008 by  Albert
Olympic Games 2008 will start soon, next week in Beijing. Michael Buerk  from BBC chairs a live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories: combative, provocative and engaging. The Panel... More »


Why not jumping on the demonizing Russia Bandwagon?

Posted on Aug 22nd, 2008 by  Albert
This is one of the very few statements of the last weeks- regarding the Russia Georgia Conflict and its broader nexus and context - which is really impressing me and convincing me that no global... More »  


A Strategists Demand: Love it, Change it or Leave it

Posted on Sep 9th, 2008 by  Albert
In the last months- catalyzed through different personal, global and public tensions, dramatic ones and more playful ones - I sensed an increased collective nervosity , energetic insecurity, emotional frictions and mental vibrations in the... More »



WIE interview with Thomas PM Barnett

Posted on Oct 25th, 2008 by  Albert
There is an excellent WIE Audio Interview with Thomas PM Barnett . This interview is as much a good sign for the new directional shift of WIE into EnlightenNext.  As it is for bringing back... More »
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Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist
about 2 hours later
Joy Bringer said

Too much synchronicity and telepathy these days Albert!

You posted 3 blogs during the last few days which I thought of posting myself, literally during the same time as I intended to (Your multi-language greetings & your Christmas wishes to all ignored and dis-advantaged people globally) and now this TEDtalk which we saw 2 days ago and were really impressed by Thomas Bernett and his radical ideas & humor. 

There is another new TED talk that explains somewhat this accelerating syncing that is happening both in the animal and human world that is worth sharing - Steven Strogatz on Sync

Synced & inspired,
D a r i n a
Oh I should add the presencing community sync as well, yes? :)

Albert  : ~
about 12 hours later
Albert said

No doubt!

I can confess, Darina, the last 15 months there were even more. At least 60! I could not beleive first…it all started in 2007. Since then cascades of synchroncities flickred between us. Perhaps one day we discover the pattern behind it.

Such a ride is pur joy and bursting with enrgy and really radical humor:):)

THANKS!!

Albert  : ~
about 14 hours later
Albert said

Darina..this just came to my mind, from the DLD09 homepage:

Particle Physics, The Aria

The Boston Globe recently published an interesting Q&A with Harvard theoretical physicist and DLD speaker Lisa Randall who is collaborating with composer Hèctor Parra and artist Matthew Ritchie on a chamber opera project entitled “Hypermusic Prologue: A projective opera in seven planes”.

Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist
1 day later
Joy Bringer said

Absolutely Albert,
It has been quite a stimulating, spicy and synchronistic ride through Gaia, soical networks, media sites, virtual spaces and more. Imagine the joy & surprise of connecting in the real offline world one day :)

Lisa Randall is quite a pioneer and innovator and I would be more than curious to experience that New Hypermusic opera creation. I found another equally original lady who will be presenting at the forthcoming TED Pattie Maes. Check out some of her latest projects in fluid interfaces that attempt to radically rethink and alter the human computer interactive experience on many levels.
Off to the Edge of Humoroso Land,
D a r i n a :)

Albert  : ~
1 day later
Albert said

Pattie Maes…..an on the ride goes…..Kevin kellys Technium lives…and a kind of techno shamanism emerges more and more…

Thanks, Darina!

Albert

Samme : Prince of Rainbows<3
1 day later
Samme said

I bought his book that you mentioned Albert in one of my blogs as well as Parrag Khan’s book.  I joined the page group of Barnett over at FB.  Have you seen Thomas Barnett’s weblog?  Also the NPR interview?

Albert  : ~
1 day later
Albert said

Sure…I am reading it for years. And even some comments earlier. Was introduced to his work at SDi Yahoo discussions yeas ago. Excellent synergies with the Graves approach modfied and devloped by Dr. Don Beck. I have posted her repeatedly about Toms work.

its simply unique.

Michael : catalyst-producer
1 day later
Michael said

ALL of what Thomas Barnett has said in his TED address IS as a direct consequence of what Eisenhower WARNED ABOUT in his speech about
the rise and rise of the military industrial complex and the inevitability
of the FALL of the Republic, IF left unchecked. And boy did Eisenhower
KNOW a THING or TWO about the POWER of the military industrial complex.

THE WHOLE PLANET, however, IS staring into the abyss as a result of DOING the WRONG THINGS for the WRONG REASONS and BEING afraid of positive criticism and as I have said elsewhere …

Without the Wisdom of Knowledge of this particular facet of understanding, is
their any wonder that, those whom the people assumed to know otherwise,
have NO KNOWLEDGE of what to do in the ever changing circumstances of
our lives on this planet or, consequently the WISDOM to have planned to
implement the only solution to the problem … TEAR-UP the existing blueprint and START all OVER.

Albert  : ~
1 day later
Albert said

So Eisenhower is dead. What will be the Blueprint for President Elect Barack Obama?

There is a bit of strange silence around him right now. Regarding Mideast. I am very much interested what he will come out with next weeks!

Michael : catalyst-producer
1 day later
Michael said

I TOO share your ”concern” about the strange silence and whether or NOT it portends what HAS to HAPPEN.

Eisenhower IS dead, but we are still staring into the abyss as a result of his IDEA
coming to fruition, and UNLESS the spirit of the IDEA of Eisenhower IS PRESENT at the gathering of the Presidents this week, ALL thoughts of positive progress towards peace in the MidEast and peace on earth WILL BE PUT on HOLD !

Albert  : ~
1 day later
Albert said

Well.it seems similar as with dead spiritual teachers from 2oth century:

Dead teachers don`t kick ass.

Presence has to embodied by each generation in new ways. Devloped, evolved and with the sense of self reliance Ralf Waldo Emerson described so beautyfully in his essay.

1 day later
Godess of Love said

For me I sense the fear of the unknown here , and this is why President Obama is keeping silent possibly. This persay blueprint is essesntial, for one of the pieces , to fit , against war, and yes world peace.

So I admire him , as just maybe he is gathering all his ducks in the row, and then the issues , may resolve.

Again,This is not for the faint , at heart. this teacher , teachers need to kick ass, if they want to get this in action:)

doolang : Unity
2 days later
doolang said

For a few more days we have a potential lunatic in office who purportedly implements visions from god. Around such a person perhaps silence is best. Just nice and calm till we get his finger off the trigger…..

2 days later
Godess of Love said

Yes Silence is Golden, I just want to add , that I believe , know one person , needs to be called a lunatic, I could say that word about many , yet does that solve my problems? Or would that solve world peace , if we go around calling people names for that manner?

Just my thoughts , and hey some may say that about me or anyone, yet I know, I am a good perosn, and that, is what peace is about, respecting all, even though they may be different.

Key words: Silent, Calm, Respect

doolang : Unity
2 days later
doolang said

i wasn’t saying he’s a lunatic, just a potential lunatic…and for a couple more weeks we might not want to make any sudden movements. I don’t want him to get all hot and bothered, put on his best cowboy hat and mosey on over to the party at Gaza. Nice and Easy does it! That’s all i’m saying. 

At any rate, some of my best friends are lunatics—i totally embrace diversity. 

I’m sure they would say the same about me. :-)

2 days later
Godess of Love said

Love you too doolang:)

Michael : catalyst-producer
3 days later
Michael said

I THINK THAT I saw Eisenhower’s SPIRIT of PRESENCE in the eyes of Jimmy Carter at the gathering of the Presidents TODAY … let US HOPE & PRAY THAT WAS SO !

Albert  : ~
3 days later
Albert said

Personally My favorite US president of all times was and is Abe Lincoln. I am happy to read that inauguration speechwill quote him.

Michael : catalyst-producer
3 days later
Michael said

IT IS indeed right that Abe Lincoln’s values and principles of responsibility to the United States as ONE ENTITY, rather than an assembly of many, prior to the Civil War [as exemplified by the juxtaposition of the United States IS, in the singular, rather than the United States ARE, in the plural] should justify the reference to Abe Lincoln’s NEW BIRTH of FREEDOM speech; BUT the problems that the USA  and the planet faces today ARE those which Thomas Barnett refers to and they are problems which, with respect, Abe Lincoln could never have contemplated at the BIRTH of his NEW NATION. Eisenhower truly understood the ABSOLUTE stupidity of building peace on earth based on the mindset of the economical template of war and HIS reference to the military industrial complex was completely balanced and harmonised by the values and principles of responsibility, which Jimmy Carter espoused.

Fortunately we are BLESSED with ONE NATION as a result of Abe Lincoln BUT a divided planet because our new global masters chose NOT to listen to either Eisenhower or Carter.

Michael : catalyst-producer
3 days later
Michael said

I think IT WAS Leonardo himself who wrote … “THE greatest bond in LIFE is LOVE, and that should receive a fuller understanding and BE the basis of RIGHTEOUSNESS in ALL dealings between man and woman. That IS the great mystery which can provide the logic for our BEING in this world, and IT IS more substantial than the creation of machines or weapons”.

4 days later
Godess of Love said

When the beautiful of nature flows so amazingly, together, and then a preditor comes , and there is a swarm. As nature does they fend for themselves so they can survive. They may split , yet then they will reform.

The beauty of the honey bees, or ants , or birds, is they all have this instinct, within. When someone trys to take away this beauty, they can never take , this away from nature , as nature , has away of working things out , and a small seed, is nourished , and then loved , then a young one is born , the love is unconditional, and know matter what it has a love .

Not like the human race , as people , have come to :

Judging , assuming, and greed.

Yet there are many that care not to go there.

You know I have much hate going on around me right now

As I am moving.

People continue to take everything away , slowly from me.

Yet I continue to love, and accept, them.

I will move , and I will not look back , as this will be the best move in my life.

I continue for peace, here, and every where.

Much Love to all

Michael : catalyst-producer
4 days later
Michael said

MAY THE PEACE of ONE LOVE shoulder your burden of moving.

4 days later
Godess of Love said

Thank you , as I listen , and know, and be quiet , and still.

As this move is about peace, of mind , body , and soul, spirit.

With love,

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