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2014/01/212014/01/21

SchwartzReport: 1% Own Half World’s Wealth – Concentration of Wealth is THE Precondition for Violent Revolution

This is one of the most amazing stories SR has ever published. This is what vampire capitalism has produced. Think about this: There are seven billion people on earth, 85 of them have so much wealth that it equals the collective wealth of three billion two hundred million co-inhabitants of the Earth. How can anyone think this is O.K.? How can a democracy operate in that reality, particularly after Citiz! ens' United.

Oxfam: Richest 1% Own Nearly Half of World's Wealth
KIM HJELMGAARD – USA TODAY

Phi Beta Iota: Concentration of wealth is the single most reliable, recurring precondition for violent revolution.

2014/01/20

Penguin: US Media Disinformation on Ecuador

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Media, Peace Intelligence

What is the U.S. Media up to in its Coverage of Ecuador?

By William K. Black

New Economic Perspectives, 17 January 2014

If the Obama administration wanted to improve relations with Latin America the most obvious move would be to seek closer ties with Ecuador. Ecuador has been transformed into a nation with a stable political system, a head of state reelected by enormous margins in free elections, substantial economic progress, and a pragmatic development program. That program embraces policies that even the Washington Consensus praised that focus government expenditures on health, education, and infrastructure. The policies also champion an idea most identified with the conservative economist Hernando de Soto – making it far easier for entrepreneurs to start new businesses. President Correa is the leader who continues to surprise his friends and foes by taking steps that make economic sense even if they are identified with the “right” while keeping a relentless focus on the needs of the poor. That focus on the poor comes from Correa’s Catholic social justice beliefs that the Pope has recently been returning to centrality.

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2014/01/202014/01/20

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.7

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

BOOK: The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism

CHINA: Agricultural & commercial espionage within the USA

Phi Beta Iota: Nothing new — Singapore does it better — they attract and treat well those ready for best in class management & facilities.

CITIES: New Model for International Governance (VIDEO)

CIVIL SOCIETY: Citizens as Civic Innovators

CORRUPTION: Greece Arrests Two More in Ongoing German Bribery Case Related to Arms Deals

CORRUPTION: Pakistani counter-terrorism funds used for gifts, expenses, phones, flowers

CYBER: Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

CYBER: In-Q-Tel Invests in FireEye

CYBER: Light Table – Out in the Open: These Hackers Want to Give You Coding Superpowers

CYBER: Russia 17 Year Old BlackPOS Malware Author – More Details

CYBER: South Korea hacked for 20 million credit cards

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2014/01/192014/01/19

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.5

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

AL QAEDA: Al-Qaeda training British and European ‘jihadists' in Syria to set up terror cells at home

AL QAEDA: Libyan Desert gives al-Qaida refuge after Mali defeat

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/19/3880184/desert-gives-al-qaida-refuge-after.html#storylink=cpy

CYBER: SCADA Holes Exploited

ETHICS: Greenwald on Whistleblowers

FUTURE: Nye on Avoiding a Gated World

LIFE: Food Around the World – Enough to Eat, Affordability, Quality, Diabetes & Obesity

LIFE: Is Consciousness Matter?

NSA: Clapper Declassifies Documents, Meta Storage Started 2006

NSA: Mexico's Computers Infiltrated?

See Also:

Berto Jongman @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/01/192014/01/19

Chuck Spinney: Serbs, Croats, & Muslims

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Written from a decidedly German perspective, but very interesting.

The Bosnian Knot

Conflicts Unchanged in Birthplace of WWI

By Walter Mayr, 16 January 2014

EXTRACT:

“There will be no peace in this area, as long as everyone is not living among his own people,” says the Serb mayor. And Bato Princip, the assassin's descendant, warns the rest of Europe against the illusion that everyone has learned his lesson in the place where World War I began, “because in this country, there are always, unfortunately, three different truths: one for Serbs, one for Croats and one for Muslims.”

2014/01/182014/01/18

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.3

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

AFGHANISTAN: Another Red Line Crossed: The Taverna attack and the killing of foreigners just because they were foreigners

AFGHANISTAN: Complex Attack on Central Kabul Restaurant

AL QAEDA: Alex Schmid on Al-Qaeda's “Single Narrative” and Attempts to Develop Counter-Narratives: The State of Knowledge

AL QAEDA: Key anti-Assad rebel leader acknowledges al Qaida past, potentially complicating U.S. aid in Syria

AL QAEDA: ‘Living suicide bomb' rejoins al-Qaida after Saudi deprogramming

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2014/01/182014/01/18

Betty Boop: Tomgram on Nick Turse, Secret Wars, & Black Ops Blowback — US Government Learning Impaired & Morally Challenged

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback

Nick Turse is the author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, just now out in paperback.

Tom: These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington’s global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my mind that I call: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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