Marcus Aurelius: Your Garbage Man is Watching You – Do Not Yawn
Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Law Enforcement
Sounds like good idea as long as everybody knows the rules of game.
Garbage Collectors Around the U.S. Trained to Report Suspicious Activity
Public Intelligence
Several newspapers in southern Florida are reporting that trash collectors are receiving training from their employer Waste Management to work with local law enforcement to report crimes and other suspicious activities. The training is part of a program called Waste Watch that is designed to leverage the fact that “drivers are familiar with their routes and are in the same neighborhoods every day” which “puts them in the unique position to spot unusual activity and anything out of the ordinary.” Press releases from Waste Management describe the program as a way of opening “channels of communication with the authorities to help keep them informed and alert of what’s happening in their city’s streets and alleys.”
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DefDog: Verizon 2012 Report on Hactivism & Data Breaches
Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Military
A useful report that ignores the obvious: the internal errors and omissions as well as the “legal” penetrations and outside-of-legal warrant exploitation.
Talking to some IC insiders who simply do not get it, am forced to conclude that there is regressive de-evolution, and the US IC is the poster child for going backwards.
2012-03-31 Verizon Data Breach Report
Phi Beta Iota: The National Security Agency (NSA) was directed by the President many many years ago to be responsible for commercial security. NSA chose to leave commercial security exposed for its own convenience–NSA, in other words, has been criminally irresponsible with respect to the public interest, for decades.
Josh Kilbourn: Irish Economist David McWiliiams on liquidity & false recovery [Video of illustrated rolling live graphic]
03 Economy, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Irish economist David McWiliiams talks about liquidity and false recovery while a graphic artist illustrates his presentation along the way.
Event: 26-28 April Philadelphia Public Banking in America
Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence
Public Banking in America
Democratizing Money – Restoring Prosperity
Josh Kilbourn: JP Morgan Whistleblower Being Ignored?
Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, CorruptionThe Crazy Things That One Whistleblower Says Are Happening At JP Morgan Will Blow Your Mind
The Economic Collapse Blog,18 March 2012
Rampant silver manipulation? Rampant gold manipulation? Rampant LIBOR manipulation? Hiding MF Global client assets? These are all happening at JP Morgan according to an open letter reportedly written by an anonymous employee of the firm. The whistleblower also warns of a “cascading credit event being triggered” by derivatives related to Greek government debt. Unlike Greg Smith at Goldman Sachs, this whistleblower has chosen to remain anonymous for now. According to the letter, the whistleblower is still an employee of JP Morgan and has not resigned. But that does make it much more difficult to confirm what he is saying. With Greg Smith, we know exactly who he is and what he was doing at Goldman. As far as this anonymous whistleblower is concerned, all we have is this letter. So we must take it with a grain of salt. However, the information in this letter does agree with what whistleblowers such as Andrew Maguirehave said in the past about silver manipulation by JP Morgan. And this letter does mention Greg Smith's resignation from Goldman, so we know that it must have been written in the past few days. Hopefully this letter will cause authorities to take a much closer look at the crazy things that are going on over at JP Morgan and the other big Wall Street banks.
This anonymous letter was addressed to the CFTC, but unfortunately it looks like the CFTC has already chosen to ignore it.
The original letter from this anonymous whistleblower has already been taken down from the CFTC website. When you go there now, all you get is this message….
“The Comment Cannot Be Found. Please Return to the Previous Page and Try Again.”
Fortunately, there are many in the alternative media that copied this entire letter from the CFTC website.
The following is a copy of the original letter that the anonymous whistleblower from JP Morgan submitted to the CFTC….
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Berto Jongman: Economic Consequences of War
04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Impotency, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests
New report released by the Institute for Economics & Peace analyses the macroeconomic effects of US government spending on wars and the military since World War II.
The IEP’s latest report, Economic Consequences of War on the US Economy, analyses the macroeconomic effects of US government spending on wars and the military.
The report studies five periods – World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Afghanistan/Iraq wars – exposing the effect of war financing on debt, consumption, investment, jobs, taxes, government deficits, and inflation.
The findings of the report show devastating trends for US tax, debt and deficit debates.
Download the report here
Key findings
The U.S. has paid for its wars either through debt [World War II, Cold War, Afghanistan/Iraq], taxation [Korean War] or inflation [Vietnam]. In each case, taxpayers have been burdened, and private sector consumption and investment have been constrained as a result.
Report highlights
The report shows the following economic indicators experiencing negative effects either during or after the conflicts:
- Public debt and levels of taxation increased during most conflicts
- Consumption as a percent of GDP decreased during most conflicts
- Investment as a percent of GDP decreased during most conflicts
- Inflation increased during or as a direct consequence of these conflicts
The higher levels of government spending associated with war tends to generate some positive economic benefits in the short-term, specifically through increases in economic growth occurring during conflict spending booms. However, negative unintended consequences occur either concurrently with the war or develop as residual effects afterwards thereby harming the economy over the longer term.
Phi Beta Iota: There appears to be a continued reluctance to address the real causes of our terrible situation: corruption across the board. No amount of intellectual posturing, whether in a book or in a conference, is a substitute for full transparency and the truth — the whole truth. The lack of integrity across all eight tribes — academia, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit — is the ROOT CAUSE of our collapse.
See Also:
Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both
2012 THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
