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2014/05/182014/05/18

Eagle: CDC Declares “Hood Disease” — Growing Up Colored, Poor, in the Inner City Form of Trauma and Stress Disorder

06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Living in the ‘hood now a disease, says CDC: ‘Hood Disease' caused by urban stress

(NaturalNews) Is it real or is it another politically correct attempt by a federal government entity to provide an excuse for poor choices, poor performances or poor government education practices and standards?

It's hard to say at this stage, but nevertheless, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that life in the inner city can create a health problem which then makes it tougher for young people there to learn.

The health problem? “Post-traumatic stress disorder,” the same condition that a number of soldiers returning from battle and victims of physical harm from crime have developed.

The CDC says that many of these children live in virtual war zones in the inner city. As such, according to doctors at Harvard University — which is well-known for its left-wing bias in research and the sciences — kids in the inner city are suffering from an even more complex form of PTSD that some of them have labeled “hood disease.”

You just can't make this stuff up.

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2014/05/172014/05/17

Berto Jongman: NSA Lies, NSA Crushing Dissent

07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military

Two stories, two sides of how NSA is seen by many.

Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA

A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why?

[NSA] Spying Is Meant to Crush Citizens’ Dissent, Not Catch Terrorists

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In his new book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald writes:

The perception that invasive surveillance is confined only to a marginalised and deserving group of those “doing wrong” – the bad people – ensures that the majority acquiesces to the abuse of power or even cheers it on. But that view radically misunderstands what goals drive all institutions of authority. “Doing something wrong” in the eyes of such institutions encompasses far more than illegal acts, violent behaviour and terrorist plots. It typically extends to meaningful dissent and any genuine challenge. It is the nature of authority to equate dissent with wrongdoing, or at least with a threat.

The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and activism – Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, anti-war activists, environmentalists. In the eyes of the government and J Edgar Hoover’s FBI, they were all “doing something wrong”: political activity that threatened the prevailing order.

2014/05/172014/05/17

Jean Lievens: Interview with Ricardo Semler Pioneer of Organizations of Free People

03 Economy, 04 Education, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

A full interview with Ricardo Semler by the Dutch TV-show Backlight. In our episode ‘The capital power of hapiness' we made a portrait of this Brasilian business man. Here you can watch the full interview of one hour and a half. Mostly unedited, but divided in chapters.

This man is Semco's business guru, and known for his development of leadership by omission.

Offers major insights into education as well as business — structures that focus on “managing” large groups of people, especially children, are not focusing on their core mission — creating value or teaching. A society's “constraints” and blinders begin embedding at the age of two — that is the starting point for creating a Smart Nation of free spirits instead of sheep.

2014/05/172014/05/17

Veterans Today: Cara St. Louis on International Common Law Court Case Against Catholic Church and Elite Leaders for Pedophilia and Ritual Murder of Children

07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence

Child Killers Identified, Targeted for Arrest

Synopsis, May 14, 2014: Child Killers Identified, Targeted for Arrest – The International Common Law Court’s case against Pope Francis and others revealed today the identity of members of the Ninth Circle child sacrificial cult, as well as the location and dates of their murderous rituals. In response, a call for Special Deputies to stop the Ninth Circle and arrest its members has been issued by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Court.

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WARNING NOTICE: The ICLCJ is an informal group with no legal standing among nations. It is representative of the emergence of disruptive alternatives to the corrupt “legal” systems now in place. It is also representative of a growing body of grassroot public concern about pedophilia as an elite privilege that is enabled by elements of the Catholic Church and deliberately tolerated by national law enforcement agencies. Of growing concern is the spread of pedophilia into the ranks of local law enforcement and fire fighting networks that include many volunteers.

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Pedophilia @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/05/172014/05/17

SchwartzReport: Paul Krugman on Political Implosion in America — Allegiance to False Doctrines, Servant to Big Money — Is Civil War Coming to the USA?

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Peace Intelligence

I have been thinking about the issues Paul Krugman addresses all this week. Is it possible for an entire political party to continue to maintain a fantasy that serves their corporate masters in the face of over-whelming facts and personal experience? The only precedent I can think of is slavery, and it took a war to end it as a viable political position, even as it continues to exercise considerable influence! over a large part of the electorate.

Points of No Return
PAUL KRUGMAN, Nobel Laureate – Op-Ed Columnist – The New York Times

Recently two research teams, working independently and using different methods, reached an alarming conclusion: The West Antarctic ice sheet is doomed. The sheet’s slide into the ocean, and the resulting sharp rise in sea levels, will probably happen slowly. But it’s irreversible. Even if we took drastic action to limit global warming right now, this particular process of environmental change has reached a point of no return.

Meanwhile, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida – much of whose state is now fated to sink beneath the waves – weighed in on climate change. Some readers may recall that in 2012 Mr. Rubio, asked how old he believed the earth to be, replied ‘I’m not a scientist, man.” This time, however, he confidently declared the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change false, although in a later interview he was unable to cite any sources for his skepticism.

So why would the senator make such a statement? The answer is that like that ice sheet, his party’s intellectual evolution (or maybe more accurately, its devolution) has reached a point of no return, in which allegiance to false doctrines has become a crucial badge of identity.

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2014/05/162014/05/16

Yoda: Science of Super (Information) Spreaders

Cultural Intelligence

The Emerging Science of Superspreaders (And How to Tell If You're One Of Them)

Nobody has figured out how to spot the most influential spreaders of information in a real-world network. Now that looks set to change with important implications, not least for the superspreaders themselves.

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But there’s a problem. Social networks are so complex that network scientists have never been able to test their ideas in the real world—it has always been too difficult to reconstruct the exact structure of Twitter or Facebook networks, for example. Instead, they’ve created models that mimic real networks in certain ways and tested their ideas on these instead.

But there is growing evidence that information does not spread through real networks in the same way as it does through these idealised ones. People tend to pass on information only when they are interested in a topic and when they are active, factors that are hard to take into account in a purely topological model of a network.

So the question of how to find the superspreaders remains open. That looks set to change thanks to the work of Sen Pei at Beihang University in Beijing and a few pals who have performed the first study of superspreaders on real networks.

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2014/05/162014/05/16

NIGHTWATCH: Afghanistan Election Results, US Interference in Election, Abdullah is 100% Tajik and 100% Funded by Iran

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Afghanistan: Update. The Independent Election Commission posted the final results of the first round of the presidential election. The top two candidates are Dr. Abdullah, who received 45% of the votes and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai who received 31.56%.

The Commission indicated that 7 million people voted, or about 58% of the registered voters.

Comment: An analysis of provincial results shows Afghanistan remains strongly polarized, based on tribal allegiances, which also means region. That judgment should surprise no one.

Dr. Abdullah, a Tajik with Pashtun blood, won an outright majority in 15 provinces, all but one of them in the Tajik and Uzbek north and in the Hazara regions of central Afghanistan. In the south he won by a cleear majority only in Ghazni Province.

Ashraf Ghani won nine provinces outright; seven of them are in the Pashtun region of the south. However, two other Pashtun candidates prevented him from making a stronger showing. The Pashtuns remain fractured and fractious so that their most appealing candidate came in a distant second. They have a second chance in the run-off election, but the Taliban spring offensive will help ensure they will not win the presidency.

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