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Del Spurlock: The Clinton Co-Presidency Legacy — Lost Jobs, Broken Communities from NAFTA, Perpetual War with TPP

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
Delbert J. Spurlock Jr.
Delbert J. Spurlock Jr.

Deputy Secretary of Labor who conceptualized the ‘Side Agreements” to NAFTA. First in a series on Mr. Obama's trade based quest for an American Protectorate over the Far East.

The Transpacific trade deal creates a military protectorate confronting China and has secret side deals permitting domestic and foreign corporations to over-ride sovereign and community interests of the American people. Jeff Faux gets it right from the beginning:

TPP: The “National Security” Sales Pitch

Like other trade deals since NAFTA, is the TPP also just a device for capitalists to drive down the wages of American workers?

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Stephen E. Arnold: Marketing Assertions — Legal Lies?

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Lousy Backlog? Sell with Interesting Assertions.

If you are struggling to fill the sales pipeline, you will feel some pressure. If you really need to make sales, marketing collateral may be an easy weapon to seize. I read “Examples of False Claims about Self-Service Analytics.” The write up singles out interesting sales assertions and offers them up in a listicle. I loved the write up. I lack the energy to sift through the slices of baloney in my enterprise search files. Therefore, let’s highlight the work the brave person who singled out eight vendors’ marketing statements as containing what the author called “false claims.” Personally I think each of these claims is probably rock solid when viewed from the point of view of the vendors’ legal advisers.

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Can Donald Trump Wage Peace with An Army of 3 Million, All Overseas Bases Closed, and More…?

Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Strategy, Threats

trump-grand-strategy-listMEMORANDUM

Seven National Security Talking Points for the Presidential Debate Cycle

  1. Grand Strategy. America does not have a Grand Strategy – a review of all threats and all policies and all costs – together. The last grand strategy review was Project Solarium under President and former General Dwight D. Eisenhower. What we have done since then is spend money without accountability. There are ten high-level threats to humanity starting with Poverty, Infectious Disease, and Environmental Degradation. Among the neglected critical policies are those dealing with Agriculture, Energy, and Water.

If I am elected President I will personally lead a Grand Strategy Summit.

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Yoda: One Shipping Company Collapses – Butterfly Effect on the World….

03 Economy, Commercial Intelligence

yoda with light saber“Tremendous Ripple Effects” – Retailers Demand Bailout After Hanjin Collapse Paralyzes Trade

When we first reported about the imminent paralysis of an unknown number of global supply chains and a potential shock in worldwide trade as a result of the historic bankruptcy of Hanjing Shipping, one of the world's largest container shipping companies which handles 8% of Trans-Pacific trade volume for the US market, we concluded that “the global implications from the bankruptcy are unknown: if, as expected, the company's ships remain “frozen” and inaccessible for weeks if not months, the impact on global supply chains will be devastating, potentially resulting in a cascading waterfall effect, whose impact on global economies could be severe as a result of the worldwide logistics chaos.

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Mongoose: Doug Casey on Why the U.S. Global RoboCop Is Going to Self-Destruct

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Mongoose
Mongoose

Doug Casey on Why the U.S. Global RoboCop Is Going to Self-Destruct

What set Western Civilization—and America, in particular—apart was the elevation of persuasion over force… That’s why we became the wealthiest society in history. But our bloated military, and all of our foreign adventures, are going to bankrupt us while making millions of enemies who want revenge.

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