SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Yet another chapter opens on our distant past. Fascinating story.

Ancient DNA Coded From Early Human, Creating New Mystery
MONTE MORIN – Los Angeles Times

Here is something else you don't see in the corporate media business news. It is the latest in the GMO trend.

China Rejects Fifth US Corn Cargo in a Month, Citing GMO Strain
RT (Russia)

Here is a growing trend you don't really hear much about in the corporate business media, but that should concern all of us considerably. I was leery of this site, but it turned out this is a well-documented report.

Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers [eg Smithfield Foods] Will Enable China To Dominate 1000s Of U.S. Communities
MICHAEL SNYDER – BlackListed News

Whether one calls it Randian, trickle-down, supply side, neoliberal, or austerity it is becoming clearer every day that the Rightist economic theories are utterly discredited and, over the past 30 years, have done incalculable damage to the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Yet these policies are still being pursued by the Republicans in the U.S. House, and touted by Wall Street, which has s! een the greatest transfer of wealth to its coffers in human history. Here is an excellent essay on the subject.

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Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

12 Cyber-Scams Popular Now

2013 Top Economic Stories in 42 Graphics

9 Google Chrome Extensions

California Solitary Cells – Torture? (BBC)

Contractors Who Worked in Conflict Zones Suffer High Rates of PTSD, Depression and Get Little Help (RAND)

Death of global web: Internet will end in 2014 – Kaspersky Lab

Dementia – Five Priorities (BBC)

EU Bank Rescue Plan – Why? (BBC)

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Hacking The Zero-Day Vulnerability Market (DarkReading)

New H7N9 bird flu resists drugs without losing ability to spread (Reuters)

Non-VIolent Climate Insurgency (Foreign Policy in Focus)

NSA Damned by Nobel Prize-Winning Authors (Huffington Post)

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Nuclear Madness – Russia Warns Over US Global Strike Program

Over-Policing America (Le Monde Diplomatique)

Russian Financial Crime – The Magnitsky List Grows (BBC)

Ukraine Crime Family Boss as President? (BBC)

Whither al Qaeda: A ‘Tri-alogue' with Brian Michael Jenkins, Seth Jones, and Andrew Liepman (RAND)

Rick Falkvinge: 2013 List Of Stone Dead Industries

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Media
Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard Falkvinge

Rick Falkvinge’s 2013 List Of Stone Dead Industries

Infopolicy:  There is a number of industries today that are already obsolete, kept alive by sheer inertia or by political subsidies. Many politicians, in an attempt to “save jobs”, are foolishly taking resources from new, viable industries and giving to these obsolete ones. “Saving jobs” in this context means that politicians are rejecting ways of producing the same level of output with a much more competitive and cost-efficient method, and is not to be applauded at all.

Roses-on-coffin-by-blmurch-at-flickr-CCBYThe first and most obvious victim industry of the internet was the postal industry, the kind that delivered physical letters. When people want to communicate today, they don’t put ink to paper. Out of sheer inertia, bills and governmental correspondence are still being delivered using this method, but everybody else has moved on. Parcel couriers that ship physical objects live on for the time being, but are threatened by 3D printing.

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SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Yet another story of the failure of austerity policies. The dominant economic philosophy of the Theocratic Right since Ronald Reagan has repeatedly been shown to be a failure. Yet, so far as I can tell, none of these failures have had the slightest effect on wretched Rightist corrupt political prostitutes in the U.S. House of Representatives. We have become a fact-free culture.

By George, Britain’s Austerity Experiment Didn’t Work!
JOHN CASSIDY – The New Yorker

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We keep being warned, and we keep ignoring the warnings, so we are going to live with the consequences.

The Devolution of the Seas: The Consequences of Oceanic Destruction
ALAN B. SIELEN – Foreign Affairs

This and the next story are so immoral they almost take one's breath away. One out of five children in the United States go to bed hungry. We do not have universal healthcare. Our schools are in shambles. But there are untold billions for war and “nation building” in nations other than our own. You'd think we would be ! ashamed, but shame about thoughtless callous programs that punish people already sorely reduced no longer seems to play any role in our society.

U.S. Needs Millions More to Complete Afghanistan’s ‘Pentagon’
TIM CRAIG – The Washington Post

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David Isenberg: Using and Regulating Private Military Contractors (PMC)

Commercial Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
David Isenberg
David Isenberg

PMSC Using States: Who’s Been Naughty and Who’s Been Nice?

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One problem though. Since Montreux came into being nobody has had a way to compare in any kind of systematic way how various states were ensuring that PMSC headquartered on their territory were complying with the document’s best practices. In effect, nobody has known which states using PMSC have been naughty and which have been nice. That is, until now.

On Dec 3 the Initiative for Human Rights in Business, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law released a report Montreux Five Years On: An analysis of state efforts to implement Montreux Document legal obligations and good practice.

The report focuses on a subset of participating States: two Contracting and Home States (the United  States  and  the  United  Kingdom),  two  Territorial  States  (Iraq  and  Afghanistan),  and  a special feature on one region (Latin America and the Caribbean). The report goes on to detail and  assess  the  U.S.,  U.K.,  Iraq,  and  Afghanistan’s  efforts  to  meet  their  Montreux  Document commitments as captured in five categories: Determination of services; Due diligence in selecting, contracting, and authorizing PMSCs; Due diligence in monitoring PMSC activities; Ensuring accountability; and Providing access to effective remedy.

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John Steiner: Global Brain at Huffington Post [Don’t Laugh, Please…]

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
John Steiner
John Steiner

Global Brain

What Is the ‘Internet of Things'?

Cadell Last | Posted 11.26.2013 | Technology
Cadell Last Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT). Currently the idea of the IoT has many definitions. Most include a world in the not-too-distant future where most objects are computerized and seamlessly integrated into our information network, creating “smart” grids, homes, and environments.

Penguin: The Fukushima Coverup: “Biggest Industrial Catastrophe in the History of Mankind”

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government
Who, Me?
Who, Me?

Atoms for Peace….

The Fukushima Coverup: “Biggest Industrial Catastrophe in the History of Mankind”

Global Research News Hour Episode 46. Conversations with Yoichi Shimatsu and Hatrick Penry

We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,

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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”

-Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project which created the first atomic devices. [1]

 

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