Alphabet Google: Dreams of a Churning Welchian
Summary: Ad revenue under pressure; massive legal problems around the world; losing primacy in search and held in disdain.
Stephen E. Arnold: Google Dies Deeper
IO ImpotencyBerto Jongman: US NeoCon Concept for Balkanization of Russia
06 Russia, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Peace Intelligence
Insights into US attacks on Russia from within.
The Balkanization of Russia – has it begun?
Mr. Marcus Micheli — neocon agent, they own Obama?
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Michael Klare: Climate Change Tipping Points
Earth Intelligence
Climate Change Tipping Points and the Question of Civilizational Survival
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science—and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) make increasingly hair-raising reading, suggesting that the planet is approaching possible moments of irreversible damage in a fashion and at a speed that had not been anticipated.
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Yoda: Indonesia’s True Cost of Fire
03 Economy
Corruption costs….
$47b? Indonesia counts costs of haze
Besides financial setback, its reputation and relations with neighbours are also at risk
Phi Beta Iota: This is what happens when both governments and corporations lose sight of true cost economics and holistic analytics.
Rick Robinson: Alexis Madrigal on Data Lies
IO Impotency
The deception that lurks in our data-driven world
Add it all up, and you have a significant problem in the way our society produces knowledge.
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The hidden underpinnings of the world were revealed only when they were gone.
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We’ve deceived ourselves into thinking data is a camera, but it’s really an engine. Capturing data about something changes the way that something works. Even the mere collection of stats is not a neutral act, but a way of reshaping the thing itself.
Berto Jongman: Freevolt – Free Ambient Energy
05 Energy
Harvest Free RF Energy From The Air With Freevolt
…it works by harvesting ambient RF energy from high-power broadcast (DTV) and mobile network (Wifi, GSM, LTE) signals.
Electricity from the air – Drayson's big idea
The technology was demonstrated in the lecture theatre at the Royal Institution, where Michael Faraday worked on electromagnetism in the 19th Century.
Yoda: Black Lives Do NOT Matter
Cultural IntelligenceLearn, grasshopper.
The Atlantic has published Ta-Nehisi Coates in two world-class articles, “The Case For Reparations,” which investigates the damage dealt to blacks through this country’s long tradition of housing discrimination; and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which examines the toll of white supremacy as American policy on black life in the United States.
