The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political
New technologies will not solve our problems: People acting collectively will.
By Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor
The Internet and associated technologies reflect and amplify the winner-take-all economy in which they are embedded, inseparable from the political and financial revolution that has been unfolding since the 1970s.
Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note.
Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community
Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal
African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, this week agreed an oppressive ‘plant variety protection protocol' that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the seeds they have developed over countless generations. The Arusha Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants regional legal framework gives intellectual property rights to breeders while restricting the age-old practices of African farmers to freely save, use, share and sell seeds and/or propagating material.
What's the economy all about … is it people, or finance?
Because You're Worthless – Challenging The Current Economic System in 3 Minutes
Poem by Agnes Török on the news of a new Conservative budget. Based on experiences of living in Britain under austerity as a young, queer, unemployed, female immigrant student – and not taking it any more.
Phi Beta Iota: Art trumps corruption in 3 minutes. YouTube (3:12) top stuff.
The next attache from DHS will have their work cut out for them.
In Mexico, escaped ‘El Chapo’ is folk hero no. 1
For many Mexicans, he is an unusual combination of Robin Hood and billionaire.
He fought the law, and he won. He beat what many Mexicans see as a corrupt and feckless governing class.
Peer review, instead of helping science stay on track, is actually retarding real progress.
The peer review drugs don’t work
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Peer review is anti-innovatory because it is a process that depends on approval by exponents of the current orthodoxy. . . . Perhaps the biggest argument against the peer review of completed studies is that it simply isn’t needed. With the World Wide Web everything can be published, and the world can decide what’s important and what isn’t. This proposition strikes terror into many hearts, but with so much poor-quality science published what do we have to lose?
Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Peer Review Does Not Work”
History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
To review the bidding, the LIBOR bid rigging cartel was the largest cartel in history, manipulating the prices of an estimated $300+ trillion in assets. That is a figure considerably larger than the world's combined GDP. … Until recently, I called the LIBOR cartels the largest in history by at least three orders of magnitude. The rigging of foreign exchange (FX) “markets,” however, is so large that that I now have to say that they represent the two largest cartels in history by roughly three orders of magnitude. Both cartels consisted of most of the world's largest and most elite banks.
