Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Michael Kearns: Bernie Sanders & Cornell West

Cultural Intelligence
Michael S. Kearns
Michael S. Kearns

Bernie Sanders & Cornel West: The radical alliance that could change everything

EXTRACT

“I love brother Bernie,” West replied. “He tells the truth about Wall Street. He really does.” But West, who feels burned and spurned by President Obama, his team, and the Democratic Party generally, then turned immediately to the specter of Hillary Clinton. Sanders, though an independent socialist in the Senate, is running for the Democratic Party ticket, and West worried aloud about submission to the party hegemon, Secretary Clinton. “I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan at all,” he said resolutely. “So if he uses his power to hand it over to her I’ll be deeply upset.” Read full article.

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SchwartzReport: Global Warming Is Now a “Medical Emergency” That Could Wipe Out 50 Years of Global Health Gains

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, Earth Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I have reached a point where I just wonder: what is it going to take to wake us up? How many alarms have to go off before we awaken from the profit trance and begin to make decisions based on creating wellness? Will we survive?

Global Warming Is Now a “Medical Emergency” That Could Wipe Out 50 Years of Global Health Gains

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Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Valuation Resembles a Unicorn on Steriods

Commercial Intelligence
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Palantir: A Unicorn on Steroids

Whoa. I read “Palantir Valued At $20 Billion In New Funding Round.” Palantir is not exactly pumping out the marketing collateral. The company is making sales to those who want to squeeze “nuggets” from the hydraulic flow of digital information. What’s remarkable is that the company is selling into a sector which wants to buy, yet Palantir continues to collect money from funding sources.

Is the company in the business of processing data or in the business of making presentations to venture types with open checkbooks?

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Al Rozich: Beyond Global Warming — Other Inconvenient Truths with Focus on Water

03 Economy, 05 Energy, 11 Society, 12 Water, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, Resilience
Al Rozich
Al Rozich

The resource crisis is bigger issue than global warming. Water-energy-food nexus is critical.

Radio Interview (12:31)

Book Website

Review: Other Inconvenient Truths Beyond Global Warming

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Chuck Spinney: Drone Implosion as a Metaphor for DoD Collapse — The Plans / Reality Mismatch Redux

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Military
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

The High Cost of the Military Technical Revolution

Flush With Cash, Running on Empty

One of the never ending claims made by proponents of the military technical revolution is that emerging complex weapons technologies create more combat power per unit of labor — that we are substituting capital for labor and technology-intensive capital goods are the key America’s competitive advantage, given America’s high cost labour.  This claim is bullshit pumped out by a sound-byte addicted Military – Industrial – Congressional. Complex.

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