Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Stephen E. Arnold: The Google Bubble

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Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google: The Forever Rising Revenue Starship

Will legal hassles, cost cutting, the surge in mobile usage, and the challenges of making money in China and Russia slow the Forever Rising, the new monetary interstellar vehicle? Absolutely not. Lawyers, even countries, cannot exert sufficient gravitational pull to cause the money craft to veer from its trajectory.

Phi Beta Iota: Google is the poster child for death of capitalism as reductionism, joining Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and Dell, among others that sold out to NSA, are pimped by the banks, and are not delivering real value toward the needs of the five billion poorest, the 99%.

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Holy Father: 15 Leadership Failures

Cultural Intelligence
Most Holy Father Francis
Most Holy Father Francis

The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis

Last year, just before Christmas, the Pope addressed the leaders of the Roman Curia — the Cardinals and other officials who are charged with running the church’s byzantine network of administrative bodies. The Pope’s message to his colleagues was blunt. Leaders are susceptible to an array of debilitating maladies, including arrogance, intolerance, myopia, and pettiness. When those diseases go untreated, the organization itself is enfeebled. To have a healthy church, we need healthy leaders.

List below the fold.

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Berto Jongman: 25 Signs of Elite Collapse

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

25 Signs That The Global Elite’s Ship Is About To Sink

Make no mistake about it. The tide has turned on the global elite and there will be no going back. A new day is rising for humanity as those who have planned for complete control are now being exposed, cornered and investigated from many different angles. There is no need to buy into the fear-based propaganda the major media and even several alternative media outlets dispense. Very good things are happening and even better things are coming.

Read full article with 25 stories and links.

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Mongoose: El Chapo a Hero in Mexico — Say What?

02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 08 Immigration, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement, Military
Mongoose
Mongoose

The next attache from DHS will have their work cut out for them.

In Mexico, escaped ‘El Chapo’ is folk hero no. 1

For many Mexicans, he is an unusual combination of Robin Hood and billionaire.

He fought the law, and he won. He beat what many Mexicans see as a corrupt and feckless governing class.

 

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Kevin Kelly: John Markoff on The Next Wave

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Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly

The Next Wave

A Conversation With John Markoff [7.16.15]

EXTRACT

What worries me about the future of Silicon Valley, is that one-dimensionality, that it's not a Renaissance culture, it's an engineering culture. It's an engineering culture that believes that it's revolutionary, but it's actually not that revolutionary. The Valley has, for a long time, mined a couple of big ideas.    Read full article.

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