SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I see these antibacterial dispensers, whether soaps or gels, everywhere I go. They are as big a mistake as plastic bottles. What is worst about these antibacterial soaps that is just mentioned is that because they are not lethal to 100 per cent of bacteria, they lead to bacterial mutation. It is a variation of the ! same problem as the overuse of antibiotics.

Antibacterial Soaps Aren't More Effective And May Be Dangerous, Says US FDA
AMY CORDEROY, Health Editor – The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

You have probably already heard about this but I consider it to be so important I am running it anyway. We have a choice now as to how we choose to proceed with the American surveillance state that has grown up since 9/11. Write your Representative and Senators and let them know how you feel about being under constant surveillance.

Federal Judge Rules Against NSA Spying
KEVIN JOHNSON and RICHARD WOLF, – USA TODAY

I don't have the time tonight to search out the specific number but, this must be the fifth or sixth report describing how Rightist politicians trying to find evidence of voter fraud, spending hundreds of thousand of taxpayer dollars, each come up with the exact opposite of what they sought. There is no voter fraud. The fraud is the claim there is. Of course it is not really about voter fraud being, instead, a nefarious scheme to limit voting to affluent whites through selective voter suppression. It is a second phase after the gerrymandering. It is really quite vile. and it should always be remembered that this process has been made easier by the Rightists on the Supreme Court, who voted to gut the Voting Rights Act, by eliminating Section 5.

Iowa Republican’s 2-year Investigation Finds no Statistically Significant Evidence of Voter Fraud
SCOTT KAUFMAN – The Raw Story

Here is the truth, which I thought was already widely known, that multivitamins are a waste of money. Multivitamins are a Big Pharma scam. But this is only about multivitamins. This report doesn't really address sophisticated supplement usage. Taking supplements can make a lot of difference, but it takes work, searching out information, help from medical professionals to! work out what to take given your profile, when to take it, and at what dosage.

Multivitamin Researchers say “case Is Closed” After Studies Find No Health Benefits
RYAN JASLOW – CBS News

Anthony Judge: Metaphors To Die By — Correspondences between a collapsing civilization, culture or group, and a dying person

Cultural Intelligence
Anthony Judge
Anthony Judge

Metaphors To Die By

Correspondences between a collapsing civilization, culture or group, and a dying person

Introduction
Entangling with information overload and explanatory closure
Recognizing the omnipresence of death
Conventional metaphors to die by
Cultures engendering metaphors of death and dying
Art of dying: imagery vs practice
Challenging alternative implications of metaphors for dying
Inner game of dying and its global significance
Renaissance: Twice born, once dead — Thrice born…?
Mathematical cosmology and death — improving the inner game
Renaissance of a brain-dead global civilization?
References

Paul Craig Roberts: Call for Germany to Leave the EU and NATO – Confront US Over Perpetual Unwarranted War

Peace Intelligence
Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts

The U.S. Drives the World Toward War

Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings.

These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked civilian populations.

None of these wars appears to have any compelling reason or justifiable explanation.

The wars have been important to the profits of the military/security complex.

The wars have provided cover for the construction of a Stasi police state in America, and the wars have served Israel’s interest by removing obstacles to Israel’s annexation of the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon.

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SmartPlanet: 4% Completion Rate for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

04 Education, Academia, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

smartplanet logoOnly four percent complete massive open online courses: setback or growing pains?

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have relatively few active users, and  user engagement falls off dramatically, especially after the first one to two weeks weeks of a course. Ultimately, only a handful of users persist to the course end.

That's the gist of a recent study from a University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) study. The study's authors, Laura Perna and Alan Ruby, analyzed the movement of a million users through sixteen Coursera courses offered by the University of Pennsylvania from June 2012 to June 2013.

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Yoda: Humans cause worst earthquakes

Earth Intelligence
Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Effect cause, this is.

Humans may have caused world's worst earthquakes

PTI : London, Sun Dec 15 2013

Some of the world's largest and most deadly recent earthquakes were not natural disasters at all but were caused by human activities such as mining, reservoir construction and oil and gas extraction, scientists say.

A global study of hundreds of quakes by Christian Klose, a consultant geophysicist, identified 92 large earthquakes likely to have been caused by humans.

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Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

African State Fragility Long-Term

Al Qaeda Inside Syria

Bitcoin Bungling – Digital Flames Eat Investment

Bitcoin Hits $1000

Chernobyl Update

Conference Results: Geopolitics of the Arctic

Crowdsourcing Dreams Around the World

Cyber Threats to Business: The Top Ten

DEFCON 16 Presentations

Engaging the Muslim World with Public Diplomacy

Japanese Banking Scandal: Lending to Yakuza

Political Islam Making a Comeback

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