Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Stephen E. Arnold: Islamic State Propaganda West Neither Gets Nor Contests — Accept Our Rules, Gain Stability

Cultural Intelligence
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Worthy of a full read — a classic failure of US intelligence and strategic communication filters.

Islamic State propaganda: what the West doesn't understand

in Sydney Morning Herald

Beirut: Behind the ultra-violent execution videos that have become the Islamic State's disturbing trademark is a carefully calibrated set of messages aimed not at terrorising but at recruiting people to “an alternative way of living”.

While brutality is the most prominent narrative in the West, utopianism is by far the most important narrative for Islamic State's propagandists. 

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Jean Lievens: Greece as a Beginning – But Dishonest Western Governments Will Not Do What Needs to Be Done….

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Greece Is Just The Beginning Of The Great Austerity Backlash

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…the exchange with reporters in Washington was another of the many signs that the debate over the power that should accrue to money — and what those who wield it can fairly demand — is spreading around the world.

Continue reading “Jean Lievens: Greece as a Beginning – But Dishonest Western Governments Will Not Do What Needs to Be Done….”

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Sepp Hasslberger: Vaccines Damage Adolescent Brains

06 Family, 07 Health
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Russell Blaylock says it like it is. You can prevent neurodegenerative disease, but you can't do so following the “standard of care” of Western pharma-oriented medicine.

Vaccines Damage Developing Brains

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I am convinced that the vaccine schedule interferes with this development. The results are antisocial behaviors, poor judgment, and learning difficulties. To learn more about the dangers of vaccines, read my special report “Vaccines and Brain Injuries — Are You At Risk?”

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Robert Parry: Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military
Robert Parry
Robert Parry

Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists

Exclusive: Ukraine’s post-coup regime is now melding neo-Nazi storm troopers with Islamic militants – called “brothers” of the hyper-violent Islamic State – stirring up a hellish “death squad” brew to kill ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, on Russia’s border, reports Robert Parry.

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So, the underlying message seems to be that it’s time for the American people and the European public to step up their financial and military support for a Ukrainian regime that has unleashed on ethnic Russians a combined force of Nazis, white supremacists and Islamic militants (considered “brothers” of the Islamic State).

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Ellen Brown: A Franciscan Alternative: the People’s Pope and a People’s Bank?

03 Economy, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence
Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown

A Franciscan Alternative: the People’s Pope and a People’s Bank?

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Pope Francis’ June 2015 encyclical is called “Praised Be,” a title based on an ancient song attributed to St. Francis. Most papal encyclicals are addressed only to Roman Catholics, but this one is addressed to the world. And while its main focus is considered to be climate change, its 184 pages cover much more than that. Among other sweeping reforms, it calls for a radical overhaul of the banking system.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Why the Euro is Finished

03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Provocative piece on the Euro financial powers and the smaller countries that can't survive under the Euro straitjacket … Greece is only the first one to fall.

This Is Why The Euro Is Finished

It’s simple, the euro is finished. It won’t survive the unmitigated scandal that Greece has become. Greece is not the victim of its own profligacy, it’s the victim of a structure that makes it possible to unload the losses of the big countries’ failing financial systems onto the shoulders of the smaller. There’s no way Greece could win.

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This currency that Greece is fighting so hard to be part of is in fact strangling it. The reason for this lies in the structure of the EMU. Which makes it impossible for individual countries to adapt to changing circumstances.

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