The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness.
Phi Beta Iota: We are seeing convergence. See also #TrueCost and #ConflictFree
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Robert Steele: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?
A possible model for true cost economics movement.
What's in your technology may shock you…
Your daily life requires vital minerals that may originate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other countries.
Tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are referred to as conflict minerals.
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How the Equity Markets Will Crash – Chart-Technical Analysis
As you know, all equity markets are currently rigged. The physical investors have, by and large, left the stock exchanges since 2008 and the share prices are since then manipulated by coordinated, rigged electronic trading done by a few US and other Western big banks and funds. Until they crash them in a controlled manner as the Twin towers. And we are exactly at this point in time now.
We have now a triple peak in DJ, Nasdaq and in all other major indices, such as FTSE, Nikkei and DAX in the last 4-5 months, since the beginning of this summer, with an extreme sharp 3rd peak in the last two weeks of October. This alone is the most clear proof for massive speculation of the big banks, before they cash and leave, and crash the markets, as the world economy, and in the particular the US, Canadian and EU economies, are in a terrible shape and this peak is not justified by any sound economic data from the real producing industry. It is a very short and highly explosive equity bubble, created by rigged electronic trading on a large scale by a few big banks and funds.
What is the Federal Reserve system? How did it come into existence? Is it part of the federal government? How does it create money? Why is the public kept in the dark about these important matters? In this feature-length documentary film, The Corbett Report explores these important question and pulls back the curtain on America's central bank.
The Amazon Cloud: From Objects to an “Incredible Figure”
I suppose rural Kentucky is no bellwether for the economic micro climates in which Amazon, Google, eBay, Facebook, and a handful of other companies operate. The big news in Kentucky is General Electric’s rumored sale of the sprawling Appliance Park. The “park” is a misnomer or one of those business euphemisms for acres of concrete and low cost industrial structures popular in the Rust Belt for many years.
I read “Amazon’s Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History.” I though about euphemisms because when my team and I wrote an analysis of the issues Amazon faced by using certain parts of infrastructure as a way to reduce the costs of online infrastructure, Amazon did not provide verifiable financial data. I had to look at fuzzies like “objects.”
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Is Amazon the New Enron?”
PDF (121 Pages): CeMiSS Global Outlook 2014
The areas of interest monitored during year 2013 and synthesized here include • Latin America; • China; • India and Indian Ocean; • Middle East and North Africa (MENA); • Asia-Pacific; • South Eastern Europe and Turkey; • Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; • Sub-Saharan Africa; • Afghan Theatre; • European Defense initiatives; • NATO and transatlantic relations;
The following list are must-read essays for anyone trying to understand the various aspects of the emerging peer to peer paradigm.
