Pepe Escobar Et Al: Persian Peril — Israel (Haifa) and Dubai (UAE) Are Next Targets if USA Does Not Withdraw and Israel Continues Kurdish Armed Insurrection

Peace Intelligence
Pepe Escobar

Persian Peril: The Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and the Prospect of War with Iran

“And after what my source had sent me on Wednesday morning…I was pretty confident that they would have to back off because the reasons were overwhelming in terms of Iranian military power… In fact there was an indirect, a direct-indirect message that if Iranian soil was hit the retortion would it be against Haifa in Israel, and Dubai in The Emirates.” – Pepe Escobar (from this week’s interview)

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Chuck Baldwin: Is Trump At Risk Over Guns in Virginia?

Cultural Intelligence

Lexington And Concord Redux In Virginia

As we speak, the State of Virginia is attempting to pass laws that would forcefully confiscate the arms of the people of that sovereign State: specifically, semi-automatic rifles AND pistols.

Speaking of Donald Trump, has anyone noticed that this president who keeps telling us how much he supports the Second Amendment has thus far said absolutely NOTHING in defense of the brave men and women of Virginia who are RIGHT NOW fighting for the right of every American to keep and bear arms? Not a peep! Not a tweet!

Read full article — this does NOT bode well for Donald Trump.

Tom Atlee: Rosa Zubizarreta on Dynamic Facilitation

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Tom Atlee

The secrets behind Dynamic Facilitation’s special power

I want to share with you Rosa Zubizarreta’s remarkable insights into how a very powerful process work its magic. That process is Dynamic Facilitation and Rosa reveals its elegant recipe for transforming intense group conflict into creative group breakthroughs. If a fire-eater ate fire and then pull flowers and doves out of his mouth, we’d call it magic.  DF often looks like that.  So what’s the secret?

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Robert Steele: Will Tencent Bury Amazon? My Bet is YES

Commercial Intelligence

The  hubris of Amazon — and its effort to become the police state database rather than a platform for empowering the public with access to knowledge  and products whose true costs can be known ( 2007 briefing to Amazon) — have shocked me. I have been in global search mode for a year, Tencent in China is one company which could become a problem for Amazon. I visit China in March. Watch for a follow up to my interview/discussion with Stephen E Arnold on the OSINT, intelligence, and geo-political ramifications of Amazon's alleged billion dollar bet in India.

Tencent’s Investment Strategies Revealed

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