Communities of Practice – Page 649 – Public Intelligence Blog

Some significant information here most mainstream is ignoring — Hamas / Iran now have the edge.

“Paper Dome” and Israeli/US propaganda

“For more on the rockets now used by Hamas and Hezbollah, Robert Siegel speaks with Ted Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Postol also comments on Israel's pursuit of an upgraded defense system.

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2014/07/152014/07/14

Bojan Radej: What if everything we know about poor countries’ economies is totally wrong?

Commerce, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

What if everything we know about poor countries' economies is totally wrong?

Dylan Matthews

VOX, 14 July 2014

As China and India continue their fairly rapid paces of economic growth, a greater and greater share of extreme poverty is going to be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. But if we're going to make progress there, we need to have good numbers about how various economies are faring, how income is distributed within them, and so forth.

The trouble, Simon Fraser University economist Morten Jerven argues, is that those numbers are often incomplete at best and downright false at worst. It's a problem that came into sharp relief recently when Nigeria “rebased” its GDP numbers, doubling its GDP in the process.

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2014/07/152014/07/13

Winslow Wheeler: F-35 – Huge Failure, More Funding

Corruption, Military

Things could be shaping up that way, even if past history says the program will march on unperturbed. If so, the inevitable is only being delayed. It is only a matter of time.

I attempt to explain in a blog at POGO's website and below.

A Big Week for the F-35?

Even if the mainstream U.S. media has been late in coming to the story, the largest defense program in U.S. history is facing two critical events this coming week.

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2014/07/152014/07/14

Chuck Spinney: The Emptiness of Neo-Liberalism

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude

This is one of the best critiques on neo-liberalism as an extreme ideology that I have read. It is long but well worth the investment in your time. On a personal note, I have long been offended by the neo-liberal hijacking of F.A. Hayek’s ideas, especially those on the relationship of central planning to the limits of information, which fit my empirical studies of the Pentagon's decision-making pathologies like a hand fits a glove. Yet, Pentagon spending is a subject that most neo-liberals, like Congressman Paul Ryan, refuse to countenance. Neo-liberals, led by Milton Freedman, have twisted Hayek’s ideas into an uber capitalist, free-market, quasi-religious dogma. Lehmann’s essay is an admirable evisceration of that extremism.

Chuck Spinney

Neoliberalism, the Revolution in Reverse

Chris Lehmann

The Baffler, No. 24, 2014

The neoliberal flight from public responsibility is actually a curiously instructive tale of strikingly other-than-intended consequences.

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2014/07/142014/07/14

Berto Jongman: Pedophilia Cover-Up by Margaret Thatcher, Broad Loss of Public Trust in Key Institutions, Victims Against MPs Coming Out

06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement

Margaret Thatcher ‘personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers

The Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a meeting with a rising star, who was tipped for promotion, and told him: “You have to clean up your sexual act”

The extraordinary claims. … go to the very heart of claims that there was an Establishment cover-up to protect politicians , judges and police officers involved in a sick paedophile network.

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2014/07/112014/07/11

Robin Good: The Future of Universities Is In Becoming Masters of Curation

Academia

The Future of Universities Is In Becoming Masters of Curation

Martin Smith, Chief Revenue Officer at Noodle, has written an interesting article highlighting how the future of universities is about to be completely transformed, and how, similarly to what is happening in the music industry, curators, or those organization acting in such role, will play a dramatically important role in the future of higher education.

Key factors that will make this a reality are:

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2014/07/072014/07/07

SchwartzReport: Banking Fraud Plague

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

This is an extract from Beatrice Edwards' new book, The Rise of the American Corporate Security State. It is another tale of the corruption that has become the leitmotif of America in the 21st century.

In Banking World, Fraud Is an Epidemic
BEATRICE EDWARDS – Berrett-Koehler Publishers/Truthout

Reason to be afraid #6:

Systemic corruption and a fundamental conflict of interest are driving us toward the precipice of new economic crises.

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See Also (The Book):

The Rise of the American Corporate Security State: Six Reasons to Be Afraid (2014)

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