Category: Commerce

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Mongoose: Hillary Clinton’s Secret Spy Network….

Commerce, Corruption, Government
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What Was a Member of Clinton's ‘Secret Spy Network' Doing While Working for CBS News?

In March, an investigation by ProPublica and Gawker revealed that a “secret spy network” that was not on the State Department payroll, run by longtime Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal, was “funneling intelligence about the crisis in Libya directly to the Secretary of State’s private account starting before the Benghazi attack.” Now the WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA’s clandestine service in Europe who was working directly with Blumenthal as a member of Clinton’s spy network, was concurrently working as a consultant to CBS News and its venerable news program 60 Minutes.  Read more.

 

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Jean Lievens: David Bollier on Dangers of Proprietary Code – the Volkswagen Example

10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Impotency
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Volkswagen Scandal Confirms the Dangers of Proprietary Code

There is one notable aspect to the Volkswagen emission-cheating scandal that few commentators have mentioned:  It would not have happened if the software for the pollution-control equipment had been open source. Volkswagen knew it could defraud consumers and deceive regulators precisely because its software was closed, proprietary and legally protected from outside scrutiny. Hardly anyone could readily check to see if the software was performing as claimed.

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Mongoose: Industrial Scale Cheating with Software — The Volkswagen Case Study

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
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Mongoose

How it happpened, how we finally caught it.

Volkswagen's appalling clean diesel scandal, explained

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In other words, Volkswagen wasn't able to produce diesel cars that had the ideal mix of performance, fuel economy, and low pollution. (Or, at least, they couldn't do this profitably.) So they “solved” this trade-off by sacrificing cleanliness and loosening the pollution controls. And they accomplished this via software designed to deceive regulators. This was wildly illegal, and they got caught.

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Eagle: Warmonger Bruce Jackson Exposed — How Zionists, Billionaires, and Lockheed Martin Beat the Drums of War

Commerce, Corruption
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

How to Make Millions by Selling War

by Ken Silverstein, Vice.com, September 17, 2015

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He's not uniquely rich or uniquely powerful or uniquely evil by the standards of the crowd he runs with, but it's worth looking at the life and times of Bruce Jackson to see how one maintains power in DC, and what one does with that power.

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CounterPunch: It’s Official – Trump is Dead

Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

counterpunch squareThe Rich Boy: the Art of Trump L’Oeil Politics

Donald Trump is a bigot and a pig who uses his boorishness to appeal to other pigs, his targeted demographic of second generation Reagan Democrats: white, blue-collar men, fueled by Budweiser, sexual insecurity and a roiling, if inchoate, resentment toward a political system that has pushed them to an economic cliff. It is a measure of Trump’s mystique that these economic refugees are drawn fervently to a man who trademarked the phrase: “You’re fired!”

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JZ Liszkiewics: Food Chains — Slavery & Abuse in America’s Food Production & Processing

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
JZ Liszkiewicz
JZ Liszkiewicz

In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.  Learn more.

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