Berto Jongman: #Global_Witness & #OKFN Exposing Corruption in Data via #OpenData

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Data
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries

Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness.

Phi Beta Iota: We are seeing convergence.  See also #TrueCost and #ConflictFree

See Also:

Robert Steele: Kudos to Intel – #ConflictFree Toward #TrueCost?

Berto Jongman: #ConflictFree $201 Billion in Consumer Economics Full of Conflict Minerals [and Oblivious of #TrueCost]

Tom Atlee: Child’s Vow of Silence Until World Leaders Act on Climate Change

03 Environmental Degradation, IO Deeds of Peace
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

A remarkable 11 year old's vow of silence

I have been deeply moved by the action of an 11 year old – Itzcuauhtli (Eat-Squat-Lee) Roske-Martinez who stopped talking October 27, 2014 “until world leaders take action on Climate Change”. Itzcuauhtli makes it clear that he thinks all of us are at least as important as world leaders for climate action – if not more so – than officially recognized world leaders. I will be joining him and thousands of others being silent on December 10 for the same purpose.

Berto Jongman: War on Syria – War on China — What Obama’s Child Diplomats and Child Analysts Don’t Understand…

02 China, 02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

By removing Assad, Obama may be declaring war on China

EXTRACT

President Obama continues to operate with large blind spots when it comes to Chinese interests, risking strategic misjudgment according to Professor Zhen Wang of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Seton Hall University. Wang argues this is not surprising given the Obama administration’s China policy suffers from a rather incompetent China team, “including senior positions in the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, [that] are currently being held by ‘young people’ who don’t have long-term experience in dealing with China policy…many of whom are not even China experts.”

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Berto Jongman: Global Groundwater Collapse = Global Food Collapse

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 11 Society, 12 Water
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Global Groundwater Supply Crisis

A disturbing article coming from Natural News regarding the global groundwater supply.  This comes just one week after we posted about the coming global crisis in the works as a result of the drought – (Click here to read first).  The article states:  Shocking findings reported by NASA show that the problem of diminishing groundwater is poised to lead to the collapse of the food supply, where there could be devastating consequences.

See Also:

Water @ Phi Beta Iota

SchwartzReport: US Border Patrol — Largest Most Corrupt US Law Enforcement Agent Dealing with Smallest Least Threatening Population

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

In my view this entire border hysteria is based on fear and greed. For a few corporations this is all extremely profitable. It is a works program. And it is completely out of control as this report makes clear. The false foundation of this whole business is why it is also so corrupt.

How the Border Patrol Became Our Most Stunningly Corrupt Law Enforcement Agency

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