J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans – Week to 9 Jul 2019

Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

American Gray Swans – Week 27 – Shake, Rattle, and Roll!

I guess by now everybody has heard about the 2 large earthquakes (6.4 and 7.1) that happened this week in southern California. What is it about our species that ignores very real and tangible threats thinking they won’t happen?

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Update

Commercial Intelligence
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon Update

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  • A Glimpse of the Future of Government IT Procurement
  • Amazon’s Delete Does Not Delete
  • What Happens When an Amazon Third Party Seller Fools You?
  • Amazon’s Approach to Smarter Work
  • Cat Flap with DeepLens
  • Amazon Facial Analysis: Some Blind Spots?
  • Amazon and Automation: Job Losses? Yep.
  • Amazon to Add Jobs in the UK
  • Amazon Prime Twitches
  • AWS Security
  • Amazon Goes North to Alaska
  • Amazon: South to Buenos Aires

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Kevjn Lim: China, Iran, Central Asia and The Inevitable Peace & Prosperity

Commercial Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Insight 208: How China Continues to Look at Iran

Iran is the linchpin of the Belt and Road Initiative’s overland component. This, coupled with the United States’ withdrawal from the JCPOA and the ongoing US-China trade war, gives Beijing more reason to cooperate with Iran.

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J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans Week to 3 Jul 2019 – Sun Tzu

Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

American Gray Swans – Week 26 – Sun Tzu

The Art of War, the book that was required reading for all those yuppies fighting the corporate battle 20 years ago, but did they remember what it said? Here are just a few of the teachings, followed by this weeks detailed listing of specific gray swan linked reports with commentary.

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Judy Shelton to Fed, Asset-Backed Currency on 4th of July, and More….

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Gold Surges After Trump Nominates Gold Standard Advocate Judy Shelton To Fed Board

So why does Trump want Shelton on the board? Simple: she previously said that if appointed, she would lower interest rates to 0% in one to two years. That's all markets had to known and following the news that Shelton is being nominated to the Fed board, gold spiked $10 from $1,425 to $1,435 in minutes, as Trump's push for ZIRP (and soon after, NIRP) just took on an added urgency.

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Ellen Brown: Is Facebook a Greater Danger than Wall Street?

Commercial Intelligence
Ellen Brown

Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street

Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the U.S., where numerous firms feast on fees from handling and processing payments, in China most money flows through mobile phones nearly for free. In 2018 these cashless payments totaled a whopping $41.5 trillion; and 90% were through Alipay and WeChat Pay, a pair of digital ecosystems that blend social media, commerce and banking. According to a 2018 article in Bloomberg titled “Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares”:

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