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Berto Jongman: Who Owns the Gun Business in the USA? To What End? What Happens If All Gun Factories and Ammunition Factories Are Shut Down?

08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement, Officers Call

Sorcha Faal is a known fabricator with a gift for connecting sources that are worth studying.

Obama Drug Cartel Moves To Destroy Jewish Gun Empire In US

A shocking new Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the Obama regimes accelerated plan to disarm his countries citizens, claims that the US President is being supported in his efforts by the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, both of whose “main target” is the powerful and feared Jewish-American billionaire Steve Feinberg [photo 2^nd left], who controls nearly 85% of all private weapons manufacturing in the United States.

According to this report, Obama, shortly after taking office in 2009, signed a secret agreement with the Sinaloa Cartel, and which is described by the United States Intelligence Community as “the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world.”

This sinister organization is a drug-trafficking and organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, with operations in the Mexican states of Baja California, Durango, Sonora and Chihuahua, and with thousands of guns provided to them by the Obama regime, in an operation called “Fast and Furious,” unleashed a war upon rival gangs that, to date, has killed over 60,000.

Even worse, this report continues, under both the Bush and Obama regimes, the Sinaloa Cartel was allowed to transport tonnes of drugs to Chicago for distribution throughout the United States, while at the same time being protected by both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

This astounding FSB allegation was confirmed this past summer when a high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative named Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla [photo 3^rd left], known as the Sinaloa Cartel’s “logistics coordinator,” stated in US Federal Court that the Obama regimes “Fast and Furious” operation “wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the US government and Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels.”

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2013/01/12

Berto Jongman: US Spends 7.4 Billion a Year on Bio-Defense, to Zero Effect

07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude

Bio-Terror & Infectious Disease Outbreak: Detection Technologies and Global Markets – 2012 Edition

The US Bipartisan Bio-Detection 2011 Report Card Status Evaluation
(Source: The US Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center, October 2011 Bio Response Report Card)

Events of the recent decade confirm that the threats of bio-terrorism and infectious disease outbreaks are real. Attacks such as the 2001 Anthrax scare, the 2004 Ricin letters, the 2003 SARS and 2009 H1N1 outbreaks have driven governments to increase their bio-surveillance budgets. Public healthcare and HLS agencies' urgent need to establish an early and reliable bio-surveillance detection infrastructure will drive the market onto a much higher trajectory than ever before. We forecast that the cumulative 2012-2016 market (including: systems sale, consumables, upgrades and service) will reach $22.8 billion.

The recent year that saw the seventh review round of the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, demonstrated that demand for biosecurity remains high. As developed countries continue to refine their organizational and technological approach to potential bio-terror and disease outbreak threats, many key emerging markets are also ramping up programs to acquire solutions that provide early outbreak-attack detection. These will require the shortening of bio-attack alarm response time and the proliferation of 3^rd generation cost-effective bio-detection technologies and reagent-less detection assays.

In contrast to the US colossal spending of $67 billion on biodefense programs during the 2001-2011 period, the US bipartisan WMD Terror Response Center report card (September 2011) graded the world's leading “US bio-detection and attribution programs” as the Achilles heel of the US BioWatch program. It received a score ranging from “meets minimal expectations” to a catastrophic “fails to meet expectations” (see table above). It stated that “Although naturally occurring disease remains a serious threat, a thinking enemy armed with these same pathogens, or with multi–drug resistant or synthetically engineered pathogens could produce catastrophic consequences“.

Over the next five years, we forecast that, led by the US, Germany, France, China, Japan and India, the global bio-detection market (including systems sale, service, upgrades and consumables) will reach $5.6 billion by 2016.

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2013/01/11

Berto Jongman: US to Fund Rare Earths Institute — Doing the Wrong Thing Righter Once Again

Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude

US to build $120m rare earth research institute

By Katia Moskvitch

BBC News, 11 January 2012

The US Department of Energy is giving $120m (£75m) to set up a new research centre charged with developing new methods of rare earth production.

Rare earths are 17 chemically similar elements crucial to making many hi-tech products, such as phones and PCs.

The Critical Materials Institute will be located in Ames, Iowa.

The US wants to reduce its dependency on China, which produces more than 95% of the world's rare earth elements, and address local shortages.

According to the US Geological Survey, there may be deposits of rare earths in 14 US states.

Besides being used for hi-tech gadgets, the elements are also crucial for manufacturing low-carbon resources such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, said David Danielson, the US assistant secretary for renewable energy.

“The Critical Materials Institute will bring together the best and brightest research minds from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to find innovative technology solutions that will help us avoid a supply shortage that would threaten our clean energy industry as well as our security interests,” he said in a statement.

Rare earth elements are also used for military applications, such as advanced optics technologies, radar and radiation detection equipment, and advanced communications systems, according to a 2011 research report by the US Government Accountability Office.

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Phi Beta Iota: An Open Source Agency (OSA) at IOC $125M and FOC $3B, would be a vastly better investment. Once again pork finds a home and a new stove-pipe is being built.

Rare earths

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2013/01/112013/01/11

SchwartzReport: Catholic Church Has One Foot in Hell

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence

SchwartzReport: Three versions of the same story — the Catholic Church is the primary supply, demand, and permissive/dismissive force in pedophelia world-wide.

German Catholic Church Cancels Inquiry

An independent inquiry into sex abuse in the German Catholic Church was supposed to restore faith in the embattled institution. But now the Church has called it off, citing a breakdown in trust with the researchers.

(California) Catholics await release of files identifying abusive clergy

Some documents the Archdiocese must release are memos between top church officials and their attorneys, medical and psychological records, complaints from parents, and even correspondence with the Vatican about accused priests.

Vermont Catholic Church settles abuse cases

Three years after paying more than $20 million to close almost 30 priest misconduct lawsuits, Vermont’s Catholic Church settled a dozen new cases Wednesday just minutes before the first was set for trial.

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2013/01/10

Marcus Aurelius: Government Executive Report on Where Congress Stands in the Esimation of the US Public — Like More than Gonorrhea Less Than Root Canals

Cultural Intelligence, Government

14 Terrible Things People Like More Than Congress

By Mark Micheli

Government Executive, January 8, 2013

Here’s your ridiculous poll of the day: Public Policy Polling recently asked people if they had a higher opinion of Congress or a long series of highly unpleasant or unpopular things. As it turns out, people really don’t like Congress. At all.

According to the survey, people prefer root canals and traffic jams to John Boehner and the clown college (no offense to clowns) that is the United States Congress. Below is a sad look at some awful things Americans like more than Congress:

Root canals
NFL Replacement refs
Head lice
Nickelback
Colonoscopies
Washington DC political pundits
Carnies
Traffic Jams
Cockroaches
Donald Trump
France
Genghis Khan
Used-car salesmen
Brussels Sprouts

But it’s not all bad news for Congress. Here are a few things Congress is more popular than:

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2013/01/102013/01/10

Berto Jongman: Eight Paradigm Shifts — Starting Now…

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Are We on the Verge of an Interspiritual Age?

By Bernard Starr (about the author)

EXTRACT

The horrific events that we read about and view in vivid television reports hardly testify to an imminent state of spiritual elevation. Conflict, greed, self-interest, divisiveness, warfare and even genocide are as prevalent on the world stage today as they have ever been. Even religions and sects of religions that worship the same God are torn by strife and violence.

So when I first heard about the new book by Kurt Johnson and David Robert Ord, The Coming Interspiritual Age, I was understandably skeptical. But when I read the endorsements by notables like Ken Wilbur, Andrew Harvey and Matthew Fox, I thought, “Maybe Johnson and Ord are on to something.” And indeed they are.

Kurt Johnson, a monastic for more than a decade who later became an evolutionary biologist, and David Robert Ord, a Presbyterian minster bring both a spiritual and scientific perspective to their vision of a new spiritual age. Inspiration for their book was sparked by the teachings and writngs of Catholic Brother Wayne Teasdale. Johnson was a close associate of Teasdale, who coined the words “interspirituality” and “interspiritual age” in 1999 in his now classic book The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions. Teasdale, Thomas Merton, Raimon Panikkar, Matthew Fox and other western ecumenical thinkers began their work in response to the call of the historical Vatican II Council (1962-1965), which spawned a new dialogue across all of the world's religions, a process richly described by Johnson and Ord.

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Contributing to the likelihood of this new age is that fact that science is loosening its long-standing commitment to rigid materialism and reductionism in favor of “an all-inclusive quantum reality in which everything is made of the same thing.” These changes are moving human consciousness toward a we-oneness universal state and away from the I-me consciousness that has hampered our spiritual growth.

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2013/01/102013/01/10

16 Jan 2012 Washington DC Global Futures Intelligence System and the Millenium Project

Earth Intelligence

The Millennium Project to Launch the ‘Global Futures Intelligence System' at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., January 16th

A demonstration of how this pioneering system could help top executives, experts, and the general public monitor and better anticipate future change. The event will be webcast live at: http://www.mga-media.net/Guest-Live.html from 12:30 – 1:30 PM on January 16, 2013.

The Global Futures Intelligence System (GFIS) is The Millennium Project's unique integration of critical intelligence for the global future. This groundbreaking system, continuously updated and improved by world experts, is being made available to the public.

“The world is in a race between implementing an ever-increasing set of ways to improve the human condition and the seemingly ever-increasing complexity and scale of global problems, states the 2012 State of the Future report by The Millennium Project. The report goes on to say that, “After 16 years of The Millennium Project’s global futures research, it is increasingly clear that the world has the resources to address its challenges, but it is not clear that right decisions will be made on the scale necessary to address our global problems. The velocity, volume, and complexity of change and challenges are increasing exponentially. The data, information, knowledge, and intelligence explosions are also accelerating.” Jerome Glenn, The Millennium Project's CEO states that, “The world needs a way to think together about the future, drawing on the collective intelligence of humanity. Google and Wikipedia are great advances, but they do not provide a framework for understanding the global changes resulting from social and technological advances and other long-term trends and possible events. The GFIS is designed to do this.”