The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
According to a startling new piece of research by a pair of political science professors, ordinary Americans have virtually no impact at all on the making of national policy. By contrast, reports The Hill, “The analysts found that rich individuals and business-controlled interest groups largely shape policy outcomes in the United States.”
Steve Jackson Games’ Illuminati Conspiracy Cards Predicted 9/11, Fukushima, More…
Is Steve Jackson a sort of doomsday visionary? Check out his 1995 card game Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy. h/t Reptoid posting to reddit’s /r/conspiracy, “Illuminati Cards (1995) Predicted 9/11, Fukushima, NSA Edward Snowden and more!“
Venkat
RibbonFarm, 3 April 2013
Last week, I figured out that I am a part-time locust. Here’s how it happened.
I was picking the brain of a restauranteur for insight into things like Groupon. He confirmed what we all understand in the abstract: that these deals are terrible for the businesses that offer them; that they draw in nomadic deal hunters from a vast surrounding region who are unlikely to ever return; that most deal-hunters carefully ensure that they spend just the deal amount or slightly more; that a badly designed offer can bankrupt a small business.
He added one little factoid I did not know: offering a Groupon deal is by now so strongly associated with a desperate, dying restaurant that professional food critics tend to write off any restaurant that offers one without even trying it.
Yet, I’ve used (and continue to use) these services and don’t feel entirely terrible about doing so, or truly complicit in the depredations of Groupon. Why? It’s because, like most of the working class, I’ve developed a locust morality.
Thinking about locusts and the behavior of customers around services like Groupon, I’ve become convinced that the phrase “sharing economy” is mostly a case of putting lipstick on a pig. What we have here is a locust economy. Let me explain what that means.
Systemic Reliance of World Religions on Human Sacrifice
Covert use of fatal conflict to ensure vital resource management
Introduction
Belief systems challenged by problematic otherness
Comprehending an elusive system of game-playing by religions
Cybernetic insights into religious system viability
Covert operation of religions collectively — and unconsciously?
Collective dependence of religions on pain and suffering
Complicity of religions in weapons manufacture and use
Human sacrifice engendered by religions collectively
Personal complicity in human sacrifice
References
Singapore's sharing economy is on the rise
However, observers say the emerging sector has run into some legal snags, while businesses band together to navigate regulatory grey areas
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Besides personal assets, services like transport and holiday accommodation can also be made available for sharing. This idea of collaborative consumption allows individuals to buy from and sell to one another directly, saving resources and bypassing big companies.
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The sharing economy is relatively new in Singapore. So there are not many legal firms that are representing the businesses right now
Lester Kang, founding member of the Sharing Economy Association of Singapore
The most wanted man in the world
Jim Bamford
WIRED, 13 August 2014
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“It’s like the boiling frog,” Snowden tells me. “You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty, a little bit of deceptiveness, a little bit of disservice to the public interest, and you can brush it off, you can come to justify it. But if you do that, it creates a slippery slope that just increases over time, and by the time you’ve been in 15 years, 20 years, 25 years, you’ve seen it all and it doesn’t shock you. And so you see it as normal. And that’s the problem, that’s what the Clapper event was all about. He saw deceiving the American people as what he does, as his job, as something completely ordinary. And he was right that he wouldn’t be punished for it, because he was revealed as having lied under oath and he didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for it. It says a lot about the system and a lot about our leaders.”
AMAZON PAGE: Fusion Economics: How Pragmatism Is Changing the World
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Phi Beta Iota: Below is Robert Steele's jacket blurb:
Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics and social enterprise became fashionable turns of phrase. I regard him as the anti-thesis to the predatory capitalism mantras and methods of our time. His proven focus on community development and evolutionary blends of state planning and market incentives is precisely what we need now that everyone understands that Western governments have been corrupted and Western economies destroyed by financial interests devoted to extracting value instead of creating value. This is a practical book, a spiritual book, and one that should be required reading among those intent on creating collaborative economies and social enterprises.
Robert David Steele
CEO, Earth Intelligence Network
Below is the book description from the publisher:
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