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It is intriguing to see lights on a small planet that can't be explained. Are we looking at a settlement, a city of non human origin?

Alien Life on Ceres: New evidence points towards intelligent life on the dwarf planet

But if the pyramid-shaped structures and huge bright lights that resemble a city aren’t enough, Ceres has more to offer. According to scientists, the dwarf planet is split into a rocky core and an icy mantle and is believed to have an internal ocean of LIQUID WATER under its thick coating of ice.

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2015/10/112015/10/11

Findhorn: Solar & Wind Leap Past Fossil Fuel

05 Energy

Solar and Wind Just Passed Another Big Turning Point

“Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It’s the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy.

“But that’s less interesting than what just happened in the U.S.

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2015/10/102015/10/10

Chuck Spinney & Gareth Porter: US to Blame for Rise of Islamic State and Syria Disaster UPDATE 1: WikiLeaks Documents US Perfidy

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime

Below is a very important report describing how a string of US covert operations reaching back to the 1980s has created the bloody shambles in Iraq, Syria and the emergence of ISIS.*

The author, Gareth Porter, is one of the finest investigative reporters now operating in the United States. Most importantly, IMO, Porter ends by connecting these covert operations to the money flowing through the political-economy of Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. Understanding this connection is key to understanding and correcting pathological militarism now distorting US behaviour at home as well as abroad.

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2015/10/102015/10/09

Jan Oberg: Lawsuit Against Nobel Foundation

Peace Intelligence

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize and lawsuit against the Nobel Foundation

Before this prize was announced an international group of distinguished activists, politicians and scholars handed in a lawsuit against the misappropriation of funds for purposes not in accordance with the will. Read it here. And here is a statement to what is appropriately called the betrayal – of the concept of peace, of the Will, of the vision and intention and of peace-makers all over the world who have, for all practical purposes, been deprived of their prize. Read full announcement with more links.

2015/10/102015/10/09

Steve Aftergood: Intelligence Lessons from Fort Hood — Information Systems (and Legal) Still Stink

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude

INTELLIGENCE LESSONS FROM THE 2009 FT HOOD SHOOTING

In 2010, then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair convened a panel to review the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting committed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and the Christmas Day bombing attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Flight 253. A redacted version of the resulting panel report was finally declassified and released this week.

EXTRACT:

“Inadequate information technology runs through both the Fort Hood and the NW Flight 253 narratives, particularly the inability of IT systems to help analysts locate relevant reporting in a sea of fragmentary data or to correct for seemingly minor human errors.”

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2015/10/102015/10/09

Berto Jongman: IMF – Debt Crisis Looms

03 Economy

$3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF

A poisonous “triad” of global risks is pushing the world to the brink of a new financial crisis, says stark IMF report

“Three percent of global output is at stake”.

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2015/10/092015/10/09

Chuck Spinney: Syria as Root for WWIII UPDATE Mike Whitney on Putin Winning

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Officers Call

A General Summing Up of the West’s March to Folly in Syria

EXTRACT

These early failures by the German and American leaderships led to ever more costly missteps and a loss of purpose as the respective leaders ‘dug in' to defend their mistakes. To make matters worse, some domestic interests — e.g., the Krupp in Germany and the MICC in the US — thrived on the carnage and had an economic interest in its continuation. And so, in very different circumstances, each conflict acquired a life of its own.

UPDATE 1: Putin’s “Endgame” in Syria

Complete essay and three links below the fold.

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