Most mainstream media coverage so far indicates the propaganda campaign by US media blaming Russia is in full swing, hence reports referred to below will get little or no airplay:
Jean Lievens: Google Terminating Anonymnity
Cultural Intelligence
Google: Doing everything to end Anonymity on Internet
You may have noticed that Google has made changes in it sign-up process and you have to provide a real name while signing up for any of its services. If you try to sign-up with a different name that doesn’t looks like a real name, Google will use its algorithm to determine its authenticity and would reject it.
A patent application published in month of Nov’13 is describing how Google is making sure that a user must enter his real name while sign-up process. Google has implemented this new method to curb social network and internet anonymity.
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Berto Jongman: Ukraine Will Get Worse – 5 Reasons
Peace Intelligence
Five Reasons The Situation in Eastern Ukraine is About to Become Much More Dangerous
LIST ONLY
Reason number one: a diplomatic solution is almost impossible at this point.
Reason number two: Putin is under heavy pressure domestically to do something to protect the Russian speakers of east Ukraine.
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Eagle: Confronting Abuse of Power Head-On
Cultural Intelligence
Trends 2014
Wake-up call: Confronting the abuse of power head-on
A collective consciousness taking hold accepts no outcome other than change
Gerald Celente
The future has never been clearer. If societies continue on the current path set by major political leaders, financial powers, multinational interests and military forces, we can forecast with full confidence that tomorrow will bring more sorrow than joy, more hardship than prosperity, more war than peace, more physical and mental illness than strong bodies and sound minds.
Current events form future trends. It’s all there for those wishing to open their eyes, ears and minds to understand how and why the consequences of geopolitical and socioeconomic actions taken today will shape tomorrow. It’s as simple as cause and effect. That being said, the future is not predestined.
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Patrick Meier: Crowdsourced Crisis Map of UAV/Aerial Videos for Disaster Response
Crowd-Sourcing, Drones & UAVs, Geospatial
Crowdsourced Crisis Map of UAV/Aerial Videos for Disaster Response
The first version of the Humanitarian UAV Network's Crisis Map of UAV/aerial videos is now live on the Network's website. The crowdsourced map features dozens of aerial videos of recent disasters. Like social media, this new medium—user-generated (aerial) content—can be used by humanitarian organizations to complement their damage assessments and thus improve situational awareness.
The purpose of this Humanitarian UAV Network (UAViators) map is not only to provide humanitarian organizations and disaster-affected communities with an online repository of aerial information on disaster damage to augment their situational awareness; this crisis map also serves to raise awareness on how to safely & responsibly use small UAVs for rapid damage assessments. This explains why users who upload new content to the map must confirm that they have read the UAViator‘s Code of Conduct. They also have to confirm that the videos conform to the Network's mission and that they do not violate privacy or copyrights. In sum, the map seeks to crowdsource both aerial footage and critical thinking for the responsible use of UAVs in humanitarian settings.
Mini-Me: If California Splits Into X States, This Opens X-1 Slots for States to Secede, Leaving 50 Stars Unchanged
Civil Society, Ethics, Government
Huh?
Plan to Split California Into Six States May Make 2016 Ballot
Zeninjor Enwemeka
Boston.com, 15 July 2014
A plan to split California into six separate states? Wait, what? The billionaire venture capitalist behind the idea said he had collected enough signatures to get the proposal on the 2016 ballot, Reuters reports.
Chuck Spinney: Saudi Arabia Funding of Islamic State
05 Iran, 08 Wild Cards
This is an informative and important report written by one of the best reporters covering events in the Middle East. I reformatted it slightly and highlighted it to emphasize points I think are important. If you find this distracting, this link will take readers to the original.
Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the country
A speech by an ex-MI6 boss hints at a plan going back over a decade. In some areas, being Shia is akin to being a Jew in Nazi Germany
Patrick Cockburn, Independent, 13 July 2014
How far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world?
Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a few months ago, had a revealing and ominous conversation with the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove. Prince Bandar told him: “The time is not far off in the Middle East, Richard, when it will be literally ‘God help the Shia’. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them.”
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