Berto Jongman: Robert Reich on Inequality [EXPENSIVE!]

Commerce, Corruption, Government
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

If You Want to Know What’s Happened to Our Democracy, Follow the Richest .01 Percent

If you want to know what’s happened to the American economy, follow the money. That will lead you to the richest .01 percent. And if you want to know what’s happened to our democracy, follow the richest .01 percent. They’ll lead you to the politicians who have been selling our democracy.

Phi Beta Iota: Concentrated wealth is expensive at multiple levels, but particularly so in relation to externalized diseconomies associated with poverty, disease, and environmental degradation. Concentrated wealth is rooted in dishonesty among the few (particularly the two-party political tyranny) combined with ignorance and apathy among the many. There is a simple solution: a mass uprising with a non-violent strike demanding Electoral Reform (all eleven points).

See Also:

Electoral Reform @ We the People Reform Coalition

Graphic: Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today

Robert Reich @ Bill Moyers

Berto Jongman: #Global_Witness & #OKFN Exposing Corruption in Data via #OpenData

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Data
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries

Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness.

Phi Beta Iota: We are seeing convergence.  See also #TrueCost and #ConflictFree

See Also:

Robert Steele: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?

Berto Jongman: #ConflictFree $201 Billion in Consumer Economics Full of Conflict Minerals [and Oblivious of #TrueCost]

SchwartzReport: US Border Patrol — Largest Most Corrupt US Law Enforcement Agent Dealing with Smallest Least Threatening Population

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

In my view this entire border hysteria is based on fear and greed. For a few corporations this is all extremely profitable. It is a works program. And it is completely out of control as this report makes clear. The false foundation of this whole business is why it is also so corrupt.

How the Border Patrol Became Our Most Stunningly Corrupt Law Enforcement Agency

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Berto Jongman: Stankov — Market Crash Soon

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

How the Equity Markets Will Crash – Chart-Technical Analysis

As you know, all equity markets are currently rigged. The physical investors have, by and large, left the stock exchanges since 2008 and the share prices are since then manipulated by coordinated, rigged electronic trading done by a few US and other Western big banks and funds. Until they crash them in a controlled manner as the Twin towers. And we are exactly at this point in time now.

We have now a triple peak in DJ, Nasdaq and in all other major indices, such as  FTSE, Nikkei and DAX in the last 4-5 months, since the beginning of this summer, with an extreme sharp 3rd peak in the last two weeks of October. This alone is the most clear proof for massive speculation of the big banks, before they cash and leave, and crash the markets, as the world economy, and in the particular the US, Canadian and EU economies, are in a terrible shape and this peak is not justified by any sound economic data from the real producing industry. It is a very short and highly explosive equity bubble, created by rigged electronic trading on a large scale by a few big banks and funds.

Read full analytic statement.

Eagle: Max Boot on Ten Lessons for Counterinsurgency

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

More Small Wars: Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay

Max Boot

Foreign Affairs, November/December 2014

Since Washington doesn’t have the luxury of simply avoiding insurgencies, then, the best strategy would be to fight them better. Drawn from more than a decade of war, here are ten lessons for how to do so, which U.S. policymakers, soldiers, diplomats, and spies should keep in mind as they try to deal with the chaotic conflicts to come.

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ANSWERS to Spanish Dancer on CIA and SOF Replacing Conventional Forces

Answers, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
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My Masters is focused on Strategic Studies and International Security and my thesis is about the relevance of the black-ops (paramilitary) to the detriment of the conventional military operations in America´s foreign policy. Basically I argue (due to literature that I´ve been revising for more than a year) that it is a fact that since the 1980s the importance of the special forces when it comes to convey important missions has been increased drastically and paramilitary operations are used more and more. I came to the conclusion that operations are carried out nowadays (specially in Syria, Iraq and overall around the Machrek) by the Special Forces units of the USSOCOM  but with the support of the CIA (where CIA agents also engage in armed actions).

Dancer,

It is not possible to understand the American way of war or spying without understanding that money is the central factor in deciding what we do and what we buy and what we spend — including lives. Here are three key points:

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