The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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I can say with some degree of certainty now that a very large number of academics, law enforcement agencies, and financial compliance consultants are now joined, as one, in their total condemnation of significant elements of the global banking sector for their organised criminal activities.
Hewlett Packard Autonomy: Bank Issues Alleged
“The Price of Silence on Wall Street” provides a bit of information about the role of intermediaries in the HP deal for Autonomy. I find it difficult to figure out if the bank was doing its normal sales job for a juicy deal or if the bank was doing some fancy dancing.
Here are portions of the write up I highlighted when I was out of Internet range in a far off land. There is some value to printing online article for offline reading.
Are Neocons an Existential Threat?
No one dares confront the existential question of whether the United States and the world can continue to tolerate and accommodate the neoconservatives.
Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
How the US and the WTO Crushed India’s Subsidies for Solar Energy
The subsidies which provoked the ire of the United States are in the form of Domestic Content Requirements (DCRs). These mandate that a set proportion of specified materials used in the NSM must be manufactured in India. . . . The US attack on India’s energy subsidies represents breathtaking hypocrisy. The US itself provides subsidizes for renewables.
Amazon’s 24/7 Hell Is the Future of Work
Working at Amazon may be hell, but so is working everywhere else. Or at least it will be soon. The blockbuster New York Times report documenting Amazon’s “bruising” white collar culture is a fine piece of labor reporting, yet its revelations shouldn’t be too surprising. What the New York Times reports about Amazon seems generally consistent with the ways in which institutionalized work is being reorganized all over the planet.
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