Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1684 – Public Intelligence Blog

In 1933, Major General Smedley Butler, at the time a famous Marine general gave a speech looking back on his military service. He made observations that are, if anything, more apposite today than they were then.

Smedley Butler on Interventionism
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC – Federation of American Scientists – Military Analysis Network

President Dwight Eisenhower amongst all Americans in history commanded a war that encompassed the Earth and, then, served as a civilian President in the world that war created. Looking back across those experiences he saw with a uniquely expert eye the true threat to American democracy.

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower
President Dwight D. Eisenhower – Public Papers of the Presidents – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960 pp. 1035-1040

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2013/12/252013/12/25

Eagle: Uruguay’s neighbors now considering legalization of pot

Cultural Intelligence

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Uruguay's neighbors now considering legalization of pot

The taboo is broken: Argentina's new anti-drug czar says the country ‘deserves’ the debate, while Chile's new president could ease marijuana laws.

LIMA, Peru — Argentina has given the first sign that Uruguay’s groundbreaking cannabis reform just may have started a domino effect across Latin America.

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2013/12/252013/12/25

Mini-Me: Islamic Banks, Stuffed With Cash, Explore Partnerships in West

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Huh?

Islamic Banks, Stuffed With Cash, Explore Partnerships in West

A noted Muslim law scholar, Yusuf DeLorenzo, recently pored through the books of Continental Rail, a business that runs freight trains up and down the East Coast.

Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, a Shariah scholar, at his home office in Ashburn, Va., in 2005. — Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, a Shariah scholar, in Ashburn, Va., in 2005.

Along with examining the company’s financial health, Mr. DeLorenzo sought to make sure that the rail cars didn’t transport pork, tobacco or alcohol. He was brought in by American investment bankers who want to take rail cars bought by Continental Rail and package their leases into a security. The investment is being built for banks that are run according to Islamic law, which, among other things, prohibits investments in those three commodities. If the cars are acceptable, or halal, the deal will be one of the first in the United States to be completed in compliance with Islamic law.

“It’s a new territory for all of us,” said John H. Marino Jr., chief executive of Continental Rail.

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2013/12/252013/12/25

Pope Francis Themes for the Future

Cultural Intelligence

Pope’s themes emerging, bishop tells Missouri Catholics

Three themes are emerging from the first months after the election of Pope Francis, Des Moines Bishop Richard E. Pates told some 500 Missouri Catholics Sept. 28.

“Mercy, peace, preferential option for the poor,” said Bishop Pates who delivered the keynote at the annual Missouri Catholic Conference Assembly at the state capitol, with the theme: “Francis, Rebuild My Church.”

“Pope Francis states often that the church is not a religious non-governmental organization busy only about secular good,” Bishop Pates said.

“Rather it is the purposeful living Body of Christ that seeks to introduce all to ultimate meaning in life and to enable all to experience God’s profound love and irrepressible care for each person,” he said.

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2013/12/252013/12/26

Jonas E. Alexis: Religious Counterintelligence — Was Freud a Zionist Subversive?

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the War on the West

“We are bringing them the plague.”

—Sigmund Freud, on his way to America in 1909[1]

Like Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud did not base psychoanalysis, which he championed to the entire Western world, on scientific premises.

When psychoanalysis came to America, it was largely viewed as an unproven system of thought. Though no evidence was available, psychoanalysis began to dominate American culture for more than fifty years.

Sigmund Freud Moreover, psychoanalysis began to replace the Western foundation of the soul. When Freud came into the scene, everything changed. Jewish scholar Andrew R. Heine argues,

“Until Freud, new understandings of the psyche were intertwined with varieties of Christian experience and post-Christian mysticism.”[2]

Freudian psychology slowly but surely began to dominate the classical psychology, which started with the Greeks and which was to a large extent based on reason. Psychology progressively began to be viewed as an academic exercise for smuggling in Jewish ideology. As Jones puts it,

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2013/12/252013/12/25

Inside the Zeitgeist Revolution | Exclusive Interview with Peter Joseph

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Wikipedia / Peter Joseph

2013/12/25

Yoda: Enstitute – alternative to college

04 Education, Academia, Cultural Intelligence

Sucks, college does…

Students explore an entrepreneurial alternative to higher ed with Enstitute

As the cost of higher education mounts, debt-laden students, cash-strapped parents and members of the media are asking: is traditional college still the answer? Correspondent Mona Iskander reports on Enstitute, a two-year apprenticeship program that matches 18- to 24-year-olds with some of New York's top entrepreneurs.

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