Yoda: The American Experiment Has Failed

Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Non-Governmental

The American Experiment Has Failed

America was a great political experiment for which most of the Founders paid with their lives, and nearly all of the rest were impoverished and died penniless.

At the time warrantless searches, seizures of property without charges being proved, intentional lies used to obtain “general warrants” and imposition of taxes in the single digits were sufficient to compel men to pick up arms and shoot.  Having a Redcoat ball removed from you, if you got shot, meant doing it with nothing more than a belt or two of whiskey for anesthetic and a stick for your teeth so you didn't bite your tongue in half as a result of the surgical pain.  There were no antibiotics either, so if you were shot in the gut your odds of evading a slow and horribly-painful death from septic infection approached zero.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Global Banks – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Research!

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Ineptitude
Stephen E. Arnold

Financial Research: Rumblings Get Louder

Regulations are having causing small tremors in the high altitude research business. I read “U.S. Asset Managers Shake Up Equity research as Banks Cut Back.” The write up offered several pieces of intelligence which might be considered “real” news.

I highlighted this headache inducing statement for the providers of high end research:

Major global investment banks slashed their equity research budgets from a peak of $8.2 billion in 2008 to $3.4 billion in 2017, according to Frost Consulting. McKinsey projects the top 10 banks will cut those budgets by another 30 percent in the near term…

Berto Jongman: Insights into Facebook Content Moderation – #GoogleGestapo Failing with Extreme Content

Commerce, Corruption, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Berto Jongman

Three months in hell

by Burcu Gültekin Punsmann   

What I learned from three months of Content Moderation for Facebook in Berlin

At the end of the ramp-up process, a moderator should handle approximately 1300 reports every day which let him/her in average only a few seconds to reach a decision for each report. The intellectually challenging task tends to become an automated action almost a reaction.

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Mongoose: Is Trump Considering Domestic Assassination Operations by Blackwater?

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Officers Call
Mongoose

This is an impeachable moment.

Sources in Trump's White House report meetings to assemble a network of deniable wetwork/black ops spooks to target Trump's political enemies in the US and elsewhere

Multiple White House sources have told reporters that the Trump administration has been negotiating with Erik Prince (founder of the war-crimes plagued mercenary firm Blackwater; brother to pyramid-scheme billionaire/Education Secretary Betsy Devos) and ex-CIA operative John R. Maguire to assemble a private army of deniable, off-the-books spy/mercenaries who could target Trump's “deep state” political enemies in the USA, and kidnap and render similar figures overseas.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Facebook Shares Employee Data with Equifax

Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Think Facebook Is Going to Fix Its Data Issues, Think Again

Facebook has been in hot water lately with its massive flubs with fake news. But the water is about to get scalding when you look at how fast and lose it plays with data. We learned some shocking things from a Fast Company story, “This Time, Facebook is Sharing Its Employees’ Data.”