Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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SchwartzReport: Monsanto “Owns” USDA

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

It is my view that there exist profoundly immoral and malevolent — the formal definition of evil — corporations. Their corporate vision creates profit by doing something that reduces wellness. Halliburton is one, Monsanto is another. One of the skills these corporations focus on is maintaining high level government connections, and to get your executives in senior positions. So great is the corruption of our government as a result that, as this report de! scribes, the regulatory agencies created to oversee these corporations are tailored to the corporation's wishes.

Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA
DAVID SWANSON – Nation of Change

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been taken over by an outside organization. RootsAction has launched a campaign demanding a Congressional investigation.

The organization is called Monsanto.

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John Maguire: Interview with Dr. Sally Goerner, Integral Science Institute

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
John Maguire
John Maguire

Interview with Dr. Sally Goerner. Dr. Goerner is the director and co-founder of the Integral Science Institute, a non-profit research and educational centre. With advanced degrees and professional experience in computer science, engineering, nonlinear dynamics and psychology, Dr. Goerner’s speciality is showing how a range of major social, scientific, economic and political crises and alternatives can all be seen as part of one common evolutionary transition.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Chinese Rival to Google

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google Needs To Watch A Chinese Rival

Asia appears to be the place to go for alternative search engines that are large enough to rival Google. Russia has Yandex and now China has created Baidu. Baidu, however, is now crossing oceans and is deployed in Brazil says ZDNet in “Chinese Search Engine Baidu Goes Live In Brazil.” Baidu emigrated to Brazil in 2012, launched free Web services in 2013, and this year the search engine is now available.

Baidu is the second largest search engine with 16.49 percent market share. Google has a little over 70 percent.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Chinese Rival to Google”

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Berto Jongman: New US Leaker of Americans on Secret Terrorist Watchlists

Ethics
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes

(CNN) — The federal government has concluded there's a new leaker exposing national security documents in the aftermath of surveillance disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, U.S. officials tell CNN.

Proof of the newest leak comes from national security documents that formed the basis of a news story published Tuesday by the Intercept, the news site launched by Glenn Greenwald, who also published Snowden's leaks.

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The Intercept report said, citing the documents, that 40% on the “Terrorist Watchlist” aren't affiliated with terror groups.

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The report said that as of August, 2013, 5,000 Americans were on the TSD watchlist. Another 15,800 were on the wider TIDE list.

A smaller subset, 16,000 names, including 1,200 belonging to Americans, are listed as “selectees” who are subject to more intensive screening at airports and border crossings.

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Jean Lievens: Defining the Sharing Economy

03 Economy
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Slideshare, 20 slides.

The Sharing Economy Lacks a Shared Definition

Giving meaning to the terms

TERMINOLOGY CONFUSION

There are different terms being used to describe the growing space that includes the likes of Airbnb, Lyft, Zipcar, and Taskrabbit. Namely, the ‘Sharing Economy,' ‘Peer Economy,' ‘Collaborative Consumption,' and the ‘Collaborative Economy.'

Do these terms have different meanings?

YES.

See full briefing.

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Jean Lievens: Jeremiah Owyang on The Collaborative Economy

03 Economy
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

A Market Definition Report: The Collaborative Economy

Jeremiah Owyang

Products, services, and market relationships have changed as sharing startups impact business models. To avoid disruption, company must adopt the Collaborative Economy Value Chain.

Challenges:

Government officials oppose sharing that disrupts existing regulations.
Lack of trust between peer-to-peer “buyers” and “sellers.”
Lack of industry-wide reputation systems and data standards.
Incumbent players view sharing as a threat to their current business models.
Uncertainty about which startups will stand the test of time.

Read full report.

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