CounterPunch: It’s Official – Trump is Dead

Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

counterpunch squareThe Rich Boy: the Art of Trump L’Oeil Politics

Donald Trump is a bigot and a pig who uses his boorishness to appeal to other pigs, his targeted demographic of second generation Reagan Democrats: white, blue-collar men, fueled by Budweiser, sexual insecurity and a roiling, if inchoate, resentment toward a political system that has pushed them to an economic cliff. It is a measure of Trump’s mystique that these economic refugees are drawn fervently to a man who trademarked the phrase: “You’re fired!”

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Sepp Hasslberger: Electromagnetic Purity & Pollution

IO Impotency
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

It's about those phones and the waves they make…

The implications of non-linear biological oscillations on human electrophysiology for electrohypersensitivity (EHS) and multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS)

EXTRACT:

Altered ‘informational content' of environmental cues can swamp natural electromagnetic cues and result in dysregulation of normal biological rhythms that direct growth, development, metabolism and repair mechanisms. Pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) and radiofrequency radiation (RFR) can have the devastating biological effects of disrupting homeostasis and desynchronizing normal biological rhythms that maintain health.

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Berto Jongman: Turkish Terror – The Uyghur Front — America’s Other Al Qaeda

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, IO Deeds of War

berto smallA long useful read.

Turkish-Uyghur Terror Inc. – America’s Other Al Qaeda

EXTRACT

The alleged “struggle” by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, referred to by the terrorists and their foreign sponsors as “East Turkistan,” consists of two essential components – a foreign harbored political front including the Washington D.C. and Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and a militant front clearly backed by the US and NATO through intermediary groups like Turkey’s Grey Wolves.

Steve Aftergood: CIA Cover-Up on Torture + CIA Torture RECAP

07 Other Atrocities
Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood

CIA Classification Practices Challenged

The Central Intelligence Agency has improperly classified and withheld from release at least five categories of information related to its post-9/11 rendition, detention and interrogation program, according to a detailed complaint filed by Openthegovernment.org with the Information Security Oversight Office.

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Pope Francis: Call for Electoral Reform

Access, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Most Holy Father Francis
Most Holy Father Francis

Pope Francis Tasks World leaders On Electoral Reform

Addressing the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday afternoon, Pope Francis has called on all world leaders to ensure electoral reform in their respective countries.

The Pope said he was worried by the insensitivity of some world leaders who fail to fulfill their electoral promises during electioneering campaigns, urging them to desist from the act and always have the interest of people at heart.

He made it known that electoral reform would go a long way to solve some of the pressing problems that the world is having today.

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Graham Allison: War with China Too Possible

02 China, Peace Intelligence
Graham Allison. Photo credit: Martha Stewart
Graham Allison

The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?

In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed.

EXTRACT

The preeminent geostrategic challenge of this era is not violent Islamic extremists or a resurgent Russia. It is the impact of China’s ascendance.

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