CounterPunch: TPP Unwrapped – Crime Against Humanity
Commerce, Corruption, Government
Global Investor Right Protection in the Guise of Free Trade
Contrary to the neoliberal rhetoric of “free trade” and “improved standards” in which it is wrapped, the U.S.-sponsored measure isn’t really about trade. It certainly isn’t about meeting enhanced social and environmental requirements. Its real purpose is to strengthen corporations’ ability to defend and extend their intellectual property rights (drug patents, movie rights, and the like) and to guarantee that they will be compensated by governments for any profits they might lose from having to meet decent public labor and environmental (and other) specifications – something certain to discourage the enactment and enforce of such standards. Learn more.
Mongoose: US Corruption Goes Parabolic — Bitchain as a Control Vehicle for Confiscating Money
Corruption, Government
The Corruption In The U.S. Has Reached Insane Levels – Dave Kranzler
A digital currency system not only will enable the Government to monitor everything you do with your money, it will also enable them to more easily “corral” any money you keep in a bank in order to use that capital for the bail-ins which will inevitably hit the system when 2008 Redux hits the system.
Hal Berghel: Secretocracy
Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency
Secretocracy
Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Secretocracy is an insidious, anti-democratic form of government sustained by secrecy and defined by an ill-informed body politic. Securocrats, and the military–industrial complex that feeds on them, increasingly use computing technology to prevent the electorate from accessing complete information.
PDF (5 Pages): Secretocracy
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Berto Jongman: CIA Arms Terrorists — Over and Over and Over….
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War
Antechinus: Flawed Models, Government-Industry Corruption on Regulation of Toxic Chemicals
Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude
Flawed Models and Industry Influence Affects Regulation of Toxic Chemicals
The EPA regularly contracts with for-profit consultancies to perform risk assessments used in evaluations of toxic chemicals. This gives these private organizations considerable sway in the decision-making process, often with little transparency about ties to chemical manufacturers. Health effects researchers point to flawed computer simulations and the revolving door between the EPA and consulting firms as the reason industry-supported research often concludes that exposure risks are of no concern.
Sepp Hasslberger: Is Zika a Fake Panic Led by WHO & CDC?
07 Health, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government
Can we trust the World Health Organisation on Zika? Read this article by Jon Rappoport and decide for yourself.
Zika: Who launched the fake-epidemic story in Brazil?
Going from 4,000 cases to 404 cases was a revelation. It means there is no reason to claim, so far, that there is an epidemic of microcephaly. Then, another stunner. Of the 404 cases, only 17 “had a relationship with the Zika virus.” Therefore, obviously, there was no Zika-causing-microcephaly story, either.
