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Evan Ellis: China Arms Sales Grow in South America

02 China, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
Evan Ellis
Evan Ellis

Should U.S. be worried about Chinese arms sales in the region?

To some degree, Chinese weapons are capturing market share from Russian systems in states that have traditionally been anti-U.S. as well as in other parts of the region. Indeed, the electronics in some Chinese systems and the quality of Chinese support in maintenance and spare parts is now considered better than that of comparable Russian systems.

Such sales also multiply opportunities for China to strengthen its military-to-military relationships with the region through the training of Latin American personnel on the Chinese systems, as well as creating a possible demand for an in-region People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military training and maintenance presence in the future…

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SchwartzReport: Iceland to End Bank Money Creation?

03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Ethics, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I follow Iceland because like the Scandanavian countries it is one of the nations where the new wellness oriented policies are developing. This one is very dramatic and will change the world's economy as it is more widely adopted. I don't think it will happen in America because the banks have so many liegemen in the Congress, as Paul Krugman points out.

Iceland looks at ending boom and bust with radical money plan

Icelandic government suggests removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank

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SchwartzReport: DNA of Poor Deteriorating — PBI: Is This Mass Genocide Against the Poor?

01 Poverty, 03 Environmental Degradation, 06 Genocide, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Some days, when I do SR by the time I am through  I just feel that with the level of stupidity and greed that pervades our culture we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't. This is one of those stories.

Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA Of The Urban Poor

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Mongoose: Watching the Watchers

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics
Mongoose
Mongoose

On stage, McGrath reiterated: “I think that open source intelligence is one of our biggest assets in understanding secret surveillance program because it’s something that can’t be shut down and it’s something that can be collected in a very decent decentralized fashion,” he said. “We have the potential to actually build a surveillance state that is a decentralize check on the surveillance state based on this open data.”

http://rt.com/usa/256285-republica-mcgrath-icwatch-database/

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Robin Good: 15 Takeaways on the Future of Journalism by Jeff Jarvis CUNY

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Media
Robin Good
Robin Good

Past Volume To Value: That's How The Future of Journalism Should Be – Keynote by Jeff Jarvis at #ijf15

Robin Good's insight:

At the recent International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, Jeff Jarvis, Professor of Journalism at CUNY, gave a keynote speech that provides valuable insight and advice as to where the future of news and journalism are headed.

Jeff Jarvis' Key 15 Takeaways on the Future of Journalism:

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SchwartzReport: World Changes Scare USG

Corruption, Design, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is the latest on the great geopolitical shift that is occurring in the world, as power shifts away from national states to virtual nongeographical corporate states and trans-national ideological movements. I was very glad to find this piece because almost no one in media is talking about this. I have previously seen this sort of material only in academic journals.

The quiet global crisis that scares the State Department

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