Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Yoda: European Banks About to Crash?

03 Economy, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Ineptitude

yoda with light saberWorld's oldest bank nears breaking point, and it could have major implications for future of EU

Another week, and more concerns about the Italian banking system. A reminder: Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), the world’s oldest bank founded in 1472, has an estimated $55 billion in bad loans on its books and is expected to be among the worst performers in European banking stress tests next week. Shares in the 544-year old bank, the third-largest in Italy by assets, are trading at 8% of book value. Italian officials have been pushing for government assistance to help bail out the bank, but E.U. banking rules require private investors to be wiped out first before there is public assistance.

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CounterPunch: DNC Lines Up Hollow Men

Cultural Intelligence

counterpunch squareNight of the Hollow Men: Notes From the Democratic Convention

This was a night dominated by the hollow men of the Democratic Party: Panetta, Kaine, Biden and Obama. Men who knew better, but did worse. The theme was liberal virility, strength, and managerial efficiency. Missing was any empathy for the homeless and the hungry, the poor and the downtrodden.

Barack Obama possesses so many scintillating skills, perhaps more skills than any other political figure of the modern era. Yet he put those magical gifts to such meagre, timid and often brutal uses. What a waste. His is the tragedy of a squandered presidency.

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Yoda: What Melania & Donald Jr. Speech Plagarism Tells Us About the Trump Campaign…

Cultural Intelligence

yoda with light saberAccording to Michael Gerson, former White House speechwriter.

What George W. Bush’s chief speechwriter thinks of the Melania Trump mess

An error like the one Melania Trump committed last night tells us that the Trump campaign lacks seriousness and structure, which is also demonstrated by its divisive style, weak ground game and poor fundraising numbers.

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The Sketchy Ethics of Donald Trump Jr.’s Speech

The borrowed lines included in his keynote address at the Republican National Convention are a sign of what the next four years could look like.

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Robert Steele: Instead of Trump or Clinton…

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

The focus of this post is on electoral reform and restoring integrity to the electoral and governance process of the USA, not on electing Gary Johnson. It should be obvious that neither Trump nor Clinton will support electoral reform.

Permanent URL: http://tinyurl.com/NotTrumpNotClinton

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Antequinus: Civil Law Suit Against Alleged War Criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and Wolfowitz

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
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Historic Civil Law Suit against Alleged War Criminal George W. Bush in California: Chilcot Report Submitted to the Ninth Circuit Court

Currently, Saleh v. Bush is on appeal before the Ninth Circuit.  Ms. Saleh’s lawsuit in federal court against US government leaders named as Defendants — George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz alleges that they  were acting from personally held convictions that the US should invade Iraq, regardless of any legitimate policy reasons.

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Faded Rose: Cornell West & Jill Stein Skewer Hillary Clinton

Cultural Intelligence

faded roseCornel West and Jill Stein’s Campaign Against Clinton and Trump

In the last couple generations of national decline, Americans have tried a B-movie actor and a silver spoon CIA director, a crooked sexual predator and a pious dancing fool, and finally a brilliant fraud. None of this has worked as the rich got richer, the country turned ever more plutocratic, and its military fought incessant imperial wars of value only to plutocrats.

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