The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Workers are about to become much more powerful: How will capitalism adapt ?
In Britain, three basic things would lay the groundwork for a more controlled shift of pricing power towards the workforce and away from employers: the right to a written contract; the obligation to publish salary bands for specific job titles in private-sector firms; and limiting temporary contracts to genuinely temporary or seasonal tasks.
Volkswagen Scandal Confirms the Dangers of Proprietary Code
There is one notable aspect to the Volkswagen emission-cheating scandal that few commentators have mentioned: It would not have happened if the software for the pollution-control equipment had been open source. Volkswagen knew it could defraud consumers and deceive regulators precisely because its software was closed, proprietary and legally protected from outside scrutiny. Hardly anyone could readily check to see if the software was performing as claimed.
Fortunes will be made on the land near the obvious new deep water port.
Lianyungang is the Missing Link That Completes the New Silk Road
While the information presented at the Summit was too extensive to list in full, the most important takeaway was that China’s elite have determined that Lianyungang will be the ultimate bridge in linking together the mainland and maritime portions of OBOR…
What Washington really craves is some form of coercion that would lead Beijing to open its coveted financial market to the mega-speculative financial casino of the US Big Bank system. That is not happening – as the White House has absolutely no leverage on the matter.
California EPA Moves to Label Monsanto’s Roundup ‘Carcinogenic’
The California Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to label glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide and main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup — as a chemical “known to cause cancer.” The World Health Organization’s research arm also recently found that the chemical is probably carcinogenic to humans, and research has also linked glyphosate to the steep decline of monarch butterflies. And as we reported this week, scientists have increasingly raised new alarms about potential negative health impacts tied to Roundup, including a recent study suggesting that long-term exposure to tiny amounts of the chemical (thousands of times lower than what is allowed in drinking water in the US) could lead to liver and kidney problems.
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I can say with some degree of certainty now that a very large number of academics, law enforcement agencies, and financial compliance consultants are now joined, as one, in their total condemnation of significant elements of the global banking sector for their organised criminal activities.
Intelligence Programs: ROI Calculations
ROI #1) Increased Win-Rate
ROI #2) Upselling to Existing Customers
ROI #3) Saving In-Jeopardy Existing Customers
Phi Beta Iota: An excellent common sense article. It misses one major area: identifying completely new needs from existing and new customers that no one else is addressing, being first to market with those offerings.
