Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1152 – Public Intelligence Blog

9/11 – The Evidence For Insider Trading

After 9/11, there were indications that traders with inside information had benefited financially from the terrorist attacks. The list was long and included traders in the US, Germany, Japan, France Luxembourg, the UK, Switzerland, Spain, and even Hong Kong. Ernst Welteke, President of the German Deutsche Bundesbank, told the Miami Herald that “a preliminary review by German regulators and bank researchers showed there were highly suspicious sales of shares in airlines and insurance companies, along with major trades in gold and oil markets, before September 11 that suggest … advance knowledge of the attacks. Welteke said that his researchers came across … almost irrefutable proof of insider trading.” Welteke himself was emphatic: “If you look at the movements in markets before and after the attacks, it really makes your brow furrow..”

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2016/05/252016/05/24

David Bollier: Why the Commons?

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

Every so often I am invited to write a piece that in effect answers the question, “Why the commons?” I invariably find new answers to that question each time that I re-engage with it. My latest attempt is an essay, “Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm,” which I wrote for the Next System Project as part of its series of proposals for systemic alternatives.

2016/05/24

Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir “Liquidity” Event

IO Impotency

Palantir: Information Leaks from Secret Outfit?

I read “Palantir To Buy Up To $225 Million Of Stock From Employees.” I am not too interested in a company trying to provide cash to workers who have to buy food in Sillycon Valley. The main point of the write up from my vantage point in wide open Harrod’s Creek is that the source of the information is a memo. I assume that outfits providing certain government agencies with services some are not supposed to know about or talk about are water tight. Guess not.

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Palantir @ Phi Beta Iota

2016/05/242016/05/23

Mongoose: Internet Losing 45% of Users

IO Impotency

Why a staggering number of Americans have stopped using the Internet the way they used to

The survey showed that nearly 20 percent of the survey's respondents had personally experienced some form of identity theft, an online security breach, or another similar problem over the year before the survey was taken last July. Overall, 45 percent said their concerns about online privacy and security stopped them from using the Web in very practical ways.

2016/05/222016/05/29

Yoda: Death to Elsevier & Thomson Reuters — Academic Information Breaks Free…

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website.

John Bohannon, Science, 28 April 2016

To read a 2011 paper in Applied Mathematics and Computation, Rahimi would have to pay the publisher, Elsevier, $28. A 2015 paper in Operations Research, published by the U.S.-based company INFORMS, would cost $30.

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2016/05/222016/05/21

Antechinus: The Controlled Left

Cultural Intelligence

The Gatekeepers of the Left

Refusal to address the core issues of US Foreign and Defense policy, which are the root causes of a pervading culture of war and militarism that has taken over the nation in the years since WWII. are part of a larger pattern of “regulated resistance”, a system by which dissent is carefully managed and constrained by self, overt, or covert censorship; denial-based-psychology; fear of personal or professional criticism and reprisal; and pressure from powers above including elected officials and those establishment foundations which flood millions into the not-for-profit activist sector.

2016/05/222016/05/21

Interview – Robert J. Bunker

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Interview – Robert J. Bunker

Prospective students must really do their due diligence before getting into a security studies program. Quite a few of the older generation of security scholars simply do not understand the 21^st century threat environment. Additionally, if the program you are looking at is in a department where only formal international political economy (IPE) is taught—that is, such studies never touch upon the informal or illicit economies—your education is going to be imperiled by delusional thinking. To have an actual impact upon the future, young security scholars need to learn about the world that actually exists today and not the one that existed decades ago.