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Lots of Banker Suicides – or Bankers Suicided – Lately

There has been a rash of articles coming out of the alternative Web press in the last 2-3 weeks about the untimely deaths of bankers, financiers, financial journalists and Wall Street types that smell, in most cases, very fishy, and the number and frequency of these deaths, whatever their cause, whether by suicide (the usual explanation offered by authorities) or murder seems rather high. This article below gives details on what seems to be a number of the individuals who died, though there are more not mentioned:

Banker Clean-Up: We Are At the Precipice of Something So Big, It Will Shake the Financial World to its Core!

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2014/02/20

Berto Jongman: NSA “Owns” All Intel Processors?

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Military

Intel CEO Refuses To Answer Questions On Whether NSA Can Access Processors

Previously leaked NSA slide bragged that Intel chips were compromised

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
February 20, 2014

During a Q&A in which he’d promised to answer any questions put to him, The CEO of computer chip company Intel stayed silent when asked about NSA spying.

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Owl: Jeb Bush vesus Hillary Clinton?

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

Bush or Clinton: Will America's Only Choice be a Presidential Dynasty?

After the inevitable disaster of having a dynasty in office, maybe Americans will want to roll it all back to before 1776, and just have a King or Queen in charge, screw democracy.

Which Dynast will win, Jeb Bush or Hilary/Bill Clinton? Ed Ross leans towards Jeb Bush in this article:

“Polls had New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ahead of the Republican pack and Democratic odds-on favorite Hillary Clinton until orange cones on the George Washington Bridge stalled his campaign bus. This far out from November 2016, there is time for perhaps a dozen other Republicans to take his place. One of them is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Assuming he could win the Republican nomination, is the country ready for a third Bush president?

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BUCKY 2.0: Y Worlds at VIMEO [Big Data Cross-Cultural Multi-Disciplinary Visualization with World Brain Educational Potential]

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice

Y Worlds – a community in progress organized about ways to better understand, better communicate, and better organize every aspect of our complex lives. This is NOT a tech on tech project. This is totally focused on the humans, on eliciting from each human in the network real-time interaction, and on educating humans one interaction at a time. It is intended to be a change agent system that can be applied one instance at a time, or across multiple instances. It does what Wikipedia, Google, and all other data management systems cannot do — makes sense.

NOTE: 32 offerings. All of the below times are in minutes and seconds.

Phi Beta Iota Top Picks:

17 2013 Meaning (00:59) – Meaning is what shines.

32 2014 The Art and Science (01:47) – High-level fast introduction.

19 2013 Language-2 (05:03) – Ancient, limited, not up to the challenges of communication and understanding complexities.

31 2014 Proof Process (5:50) – An in-depth look at Y Worlds' Proof Process.

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2014/02/20

Danielle Villegas: Google Seeks to Fiber 34 US Cities

03 Economy, 07 Health, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

More availability to internet conduits and competition will help drive down prices and make access more…accessible to the masses. It'll be interesting to see how Google Fiber works out! –techcommgeekmom

Google will explore bringing Fiber to 34 new cities including Portland and Atlanta

Google just announced that it's invited cities in nine metro areas across the US to explore “what it would take” to bring its Google Fiber gigabit internet service to more locations. “People are hungrier than ever for faster Internet, and as a result, cities across America are making speed a priority,” Google says. “We've long believed that the Internet’s next chapter will be built on gigabit speeds, so it’s fantastic to see this momentum.” Google says up to 34 cities in all could potentially receive Fiber service. The nine metro areas where those cities are located include:

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2014/02/202014/02/20

Berto Jongman: Secrecy As Culture of Waste

03 Economy, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military, Peace Intelligence

Secrecy = culture of waste.

Balancing Transparency and National Security

Is keeping military funding secret truly necessary for national security? Not according to Pieter and Siemon Wezeman. Greater transparency not only makes governments more accountable, it also helps reduce the causes of insecurity and conflict.

By Pieter Wezeman and Siemon Wezeman for SIPRI

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The secrecy of military matters is an illusion

Many governments justify secrecy in military budgets on the basis that such information should not be allowed to fall into the hands of potentially hostile forces. However, maintaining secrecy about military spending and key military procurement projects is practically impossible. For example, SIPRI has had 45 years of experience in collecting information about military budgets and international arms transfers. Open sources, official or non-official, provide SIPRI with a wealth of information about the procurement of major arms. If organizations like SIPRI, with minimal resources and working only with open sources, can calculate military spending and map global arms transfers with a high degree of comprehensiveness and accuracy, then national intelligence agencies in potentially hostile countries are obviously able to achieve a lot more.

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John Robb: Global Civil War Coming — 99% Against the 1% Kleptocracy [Switzerland May Be Safe, But Absentee Ownership and Rents Are Toast]

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call

The Dream vs. the Kleptocracy

Here's a strong motive for open source warfare — the model of warfare that has become the hallmark of 21st century conlfict, from potest movements to fullscale insurgencies.

It's the driver of the recent conflict in Ukraine.

A conflict we're going to see much more of. A struggle between the people that want the opportunity to earn some prosperity, and those that want to take all of it.

In other words, a growing number of people around the world now want to make the American Dream their own.

Unfortunately, they face a kleptocracy of government, business, and finance that wants to prevent that.

Here's one story from that fight. One that you should know.

It's the story of a young man that pursued the Dream, only to have it stolen away from him.

Basboosa vs. the Kleptocracy

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