Berto Jongman: Putin’s Hydra — Inside the Not So Competent Russian Intelligence Services UPDATE 1

04 Inter-State Conflict, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Ineptitude
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Putin’s hydra: Inside Russia’s intelligence services

Far from being an all-powerful “spookocracy” that controls the Kremlin, Russia’s intelligence services are internally divided, distracted by bureaucratic turf wars, and often produce poor quality intelligence – ultimately threatening the interests of Vladimir Putin himself.

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Antechinus: Cell Phones and Cancer

07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency
Antechinus
Antechinus

Major Cell Phone Radiation Study Reignites Cancer Questions

Federal scientists released partial findings Friday from a $25-million animal study that tested the possibility of links between cancer and chronic exposure to the type of radiation emitted from cell phones and wireless devices. The findings, which chronicle an unprecedented number of rodents subjected to a lifetime of electromagnetic radiation starting in utero, present some of the strongest evidence to date that such exposure is associated with the formation of rare cancers in at least two cell types in the brains and hearts of rats.

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Matt Taibbi: Hillary Clinton Slams Trump for Seeing Value in Real Estate Crash, Never Mind That She is the Public Face of the Wall Street Banks Manufacturing the Crisis….

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi

Hillary Clinton's New Anti-Trump Ad Misses the Mark

By blaming Trump for a problem caused by their own political patrons, Hillary and the Democrats are walking face-first into Trump's rhetorical buzz-saw. Couldn't they find something else to hit him with?

Antechinus: The Toxic Mythology of Military “Service” — Don’t Thank ME, Do YOUR Job and Fire Corrupt Politicians Who Sell War for Wall Street

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Antechinus
Antechinus

The Effects of Mythology on Members of the Military and Veterans

“I am neither hero nor murderer and will accept neither praise nor blame for a war I neither caused nor wanted”, writes Camillo Mac Bica in Worthy of Gratitude: Why Veterans May Not Want to be Thanked For Their “Service” in War.

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Worth a Look: This is an Uprising – Non-Violent Revolution

Worth A Look
Amazon Page
Amazon Page

There is a craft to uprising—and this craft can change the world

From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest.

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