Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Sepp Hasslberger: Russia – Japan Unite on Payment Cards – Sanctions Backfiring

03 Economy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Financial pressure (the sanctions imposed by Western nations) seems to be backfiring…

Russian national payment system and Japan’s JCB to issue co-badged cards

EXTRACT

“The partnership with the Japanese payment system will provide Mir-JCB bank cards access to the infrastructure of JCB worldwide, including Asia, where JCB has traditionally been strong and had wide network of card acceptance. Co-badging the Mir-JCB card will work in the infrastructure of the Mir payment system as a Mir bank card; in the JCB infrastructure, outside of Russia, as a JCB card”, said the statement published Tuesday.

JCB in turn will significantly strengthen its position in the Russian market and its worldwide business, added NPCS.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Elsevier Going Down….

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Elsevier and Its Business Model May Be Ageing Fast

If you need to conduct research and are not attached to a university or academic library, then you are going to get hit with huge subscription fees to have access to quality material.  This is especially true for the scientific community, but on the Internet if there is a will there most certainly is a way.  Material often locked behind a subscription service can be found if you dig around the Internet long enough, mostly from foreign countries, but the material is often pirated.  Gizmodo shares in the article, “Academic Publishing Giant Fights To Keep Science Paywalled” that Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers, is angry about its content being stolen and shared on third party sites.  Elsevier recently filed a complaint with the New York District Court against Library Genesis and SciHub.org.

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Tom Atlee: Co-Intelligence FAQ

Collective Intelligence
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

What is intelligence? What is co-intelligence? How is co-intelligence a bigger form of intelligence? What is a bigger picture perspective and what are bigger picture outcomes? What helps people make co-intelligence happen? Isn't co-intelligence just collaboration? What's the difference between co-intelligence and collective intelligence? What is co-stupidity? What causes people and groups to be co-stupid? Is co-intelligence an experience? Can individuals be co-intelligent, or just groups? Is co-intelligence a method? Isn't co-intelligence already happening in lots of places? What is the co-intelligence worldview? What does co-intelligence have to do with democracy? What value do the co-intelligence worldview and co-intelligence capacities add to human life? Is co-intelligence the intelligence of God or Spirit? What is holistic intelligence? How does all this fit together? What is the Co-Intelligence Institute?

The Co-Intelligence FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

 

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Berto Jongman: Legalized Financial Crime — LIBOR & Foreign Exchange Manipulation by City of London and Wall Street Excused By US & UK “Authorities”

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget

To review the bidding, the LIBOR bid rigging cartel was the largest cartel in history, manipulating the prices of an estimated $300+ trillion in assets. That is a figure considerably larger than the world's combined GDP. … Until recently, I called the LIBOR cartels the largest in history by at least three orders of magnitude. The rigging of foreign exchange (FX) “markets,” however, is so large that that I now have to say that they represent the two largest cartels in history by roughly three orders of magnitude. Both cartels consisted of most of the world's largest and most elite banks.

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Nikola K. Gvosdev: National Interest on China, Russia, India

Commercial Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Nikola K. Gvosdev
Nikola K. Gvosdev

China's Master Plan to Thwart American Dominance in Asia

Nikola K. Gvosdev

The Ukraine crisis has permanently ruptured Russia’s ties to the West and pulled Moscow into a closer relationship with Beijing.   …   As much as Washington likes to trumpet its good relationship with India, the reality is that Xi has made cultivation of India much more of a priority than Washington has. India and Pakistan are also now set to become full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization—which means that New Delhi has yet another institutional framework for conducting its relations with Russia and China in a forum that excludes the United States.

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Antechinus: Are Big Banks Manipulating Gold Prices?

Commercial Intelligence
Antechinus
Antechinus

Are Big Banks Using Derivatives To Suppress Bullion Prices?

The Federal Reserves’ agents, the bullion banks (principally JPMorganChase, HSBC, and Scotia) sell uncovered shorts (“naked shorts”) on the Comex (gold futures market) in order to drive down an otherwise rising price of gold. By dumping so many uncovered short contracts into the futures market, an artificial increase in “paper gold” is created, and this increase in supply drives down the price. Seven years of bailing out the big banks that control the Federal Reserve and US Treasury at the expense of the US economy has threatened the US dollar to the extent that the dollar must be protected at all cost, including US regulatory tolerance of illegal activity to suppress gold and silver prices.

 

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