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Journal: Wall Street Scam Collateral Damage II

03 Economy, Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Methods & Process, Policy, Reform, Strategy

Collateral Damager Part II
Collateral Damage Part II

Collateral Damage (Part 2):

The Subprime Crisis and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11 2001_2612

The time has come for the public to do its own intelligence on treason and fraud.  This second part of the report names many names, including Henry Kissinger.  The two reports together, in our judgment, amply justify a public demand for a Grand Jury to indict all named individuals.

Collateral Damage Part I

Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up!

Better link, thanks to Chaos Computer Club.

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Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up!

Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Policies, Policy, Reform, Strategy

EDIT:  See alsoJournal: Wall Street Scam Collateral Damage II

From a Source in Moscow (First Two Paragraphs Only)

Russian trade ministry officials are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that China is preparing to plunge the United States and European Union into the “dustbin of history” as major World economic powers over their, the West’s, deliberate collapsing of the present Global economic system in order to install their long sought after New World Order.

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China’s intent to carry out on their threat, these reports say, began this past week when, as perhaps best stated by one American financial analyst, China told the West to go “straight to hell” when the Chinese stated they would deliberately default on Trillions-of dollars in US backed debt security instruments called  OTC  because they were fraudulently created by Western bankers and as such are now considered an “act of war”.

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Journal: Illicit Money, Illegitimate Governments, and More…

03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Law Enforcement

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Volume 56, Number 19 · December 3, 2009

Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped?

By Eva Joly, Raymond Baker

On May 4, the Obama administration announced a plan to crack down on offshore tax havens, which it said are costing the United States tens of billions of dollars each year. The President's proposals were primarily aimed at finding ways to increase revenue from wealthy companies and investors who use loopholes in the law and offshore subsidiaries to reduce their US taxes. But the administration is largely missing a far more devastating problem related to offshore finance: money gained from criminal and other illicit sources. With the use of tax havens and other elements of an increasingly complex ‘shadow' financial network, vast sums of illegal money are being shifted throughout the global economy virtually undetected.

Phi Beta Iota: The illicit global economy is at least two trillion dollars a year against a seven trillion dollar a year legitimate economy, and the latter is both full of legal crime and legal tax avoidance, as well as focused on the one billion rich rathyer than the five billion poor.  One of the many dirty not-so-little secrets about Wall Street is that it relies heavily on laundered drug money for its liquidity; another is that the banking community has been all too happy to manage the funds of dictators and war lords and others.  Below are just three of the many books we recommend in this area.

Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy (Hardcover)

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (Paperback)

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Journal: Out of Touch with Reality I

03 Economy, 04 Education, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Methods & Process, Mobile

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Lifestyle Hackers

Jim Routh and Gary McGraw examine why twenty-somethings skateboard  right past security controls, and what it means for employers (i.e.  you!)

November 02, 2009

The insider threat, the bane of computer security and a topic of  worried conversation among CSOs, is undergoing significant change.  Over the years, the majority of insider threats have carried out  attacks in order to line their pockets, punish their colleagues, spy  for the enemy or wreak havoc from within. Today's insider threats may
have something much less insidious in mind—multitasking and social  networking to get their jobs done.

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Journal: Impact Investing

03 Economy, 04 Indonesia, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics
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The idea that for-profit investment can have positive social and environmental impact has been talked about for some time, and is increasingly being put to practice. This phenomenon of Impact Investing has the potential to complement philanthropy and government in addressing to some of the planet's most deeply entrenched challenges, including climate change, agricultural productivity, shelter, and health, among others. By tapping the global capital markets, impact investing can unlock financial resources to address these challenges at a scale that government and philanthropy cannot match.

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Journal: Airplane Wings from Soy…Soon

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 12 Water, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Technologies
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Not New, But Improved

Allison Arieff

Meet Stella.

At first glance, this little yellow giraffe looks like a lot of other kids’ bath toys. But Stella is made from Renuva, a little-known material that could change for the better the way hundreds of things, from upholstery to airplane wings, are made.

The story of how Stella came to be made from this material, a soy-based alternative to polyurethane (which is typically petroleum-based), provides a model for how stuff can be better designed in the future.

Phi Beta Iota: While folks focus on the Al Gore show and the important but isolated challenge of reducing our carbon footprint, the avant guarde is way down the road with sustainable design, green chemistry, zero waste, and so on.  It's all connected, we need to get truth on the table, and we need to do the right things righter.  Stella is a poster child for a new paradigm of ecological economics, natural capitalism, and conscious evolution.  Learn more about Renuva from Dow below.

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