Mongoose: Fake History – systematic and methodical theft and destruction of history

Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Peace Intelligence
Mongoose

A sampler.  Few write about this — Howard Zinn tried to.

 

Berto Jongman: Davos Elite Worried..Very Worried

03 Economy, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Officers Call
Berto Jongman

Davos elites fear they’re on a toboggan ride to hell

The global winners here in Switzerland aren’t so sure they’re up to the task of running the world anymore.

DAVOS, Switzerland — Populist movements around the world, left and right, disagree in detail but are united around one big idea: The political and economic elites running modern societies are very powerful people who know what they are doing.

What they are doing is often bad — greedy, exploitative, short-sighted — but they are doing it with purpose and confident control.

Let there be pitchforks!

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Penguin: Facebook Fraud #GoogleGestapo Core Value

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Facebook Slides After Report Claims 50% Of Its Users Are Fake

Facebook Ripped Off Game-Playing Kids And Their Parents In Multi-Year “Friendly Fraud” Scheme

Internal Facebook Memo Reveals The Company Encouraged ‘Friendly Fraud’

When parents found out how much their children had spent – one 15-year-old racked up $6,500 in charges in about two weeks playing games on Facebook – the company denied requests for refunds. Facebook employees referred to these children as “whales” – a term borrowed from the casino industry to describe profligate spenders. A child could spend hundreds of dollars a day on in-game features such as arming their character with a flaming sword or a new magic spell to defeat an enemy – even if they didn’t realize it until the credit card bill arrived. –Reveal News

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Berto Jongman: Surveillance Capitalism – Toward Fascist Control of the 99% by the 1%

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency
Berto Jongman

‘The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the author 10 key questions

Read full interview.  Book below the fold.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Ignoring Amazon — Bad Idea…

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Ignoring Amazon: Risky, Short Sighted, Maybe Not an Informed Decision

I read “AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source.” The write up does a good job of explaining how convenience can generate cash for old line businesses.

There are several facets of Amazon’s system and method for competition which may be more important than the inclusion of open source software in its suite of “conveniences.”

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