Atrocities in Central African Republic
Crime Pays — Development Role of Gangsters
Failure of NSA — Wretched, Truly Wretched
IARPA — Equally Wretched Ignorance
Project Artemis – OSINT activities on Deep Web
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Gordon Duff: Energy Used to Create and Dissipate Typhoons
Advanced Cyber/IO, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Mysterious Energy Pulse Threatens Typhoon “Business”
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
This week, one typhoon and one tropical storm simply vanished while heading toward Japan. They were abruptly turned northward, sparing Japan and then simply vanished.
The MSM has responded with a news blackout. There are no explanations.
YouTube – Veterans Today –
Days before, the events were predicted in an article on Veterans Today, citing plans by a defense group to use a Tesla based energy system to disrupt the storms.
The website announced in advance when they were beginning operations and reported results as things transpired.
As to whether they were successful or that the two storms mysteriously disappeared, a freak of nature, will never be proven.
The group announced they are willing and able to cause another mysterious freak of nature when needed.
Stephen E. Arnold: Forking Google – The Future is Samsung?
Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Design, Ethics, Innovation
Forking Google: The Future of Fone Flaps
I read “Samsung Is Pulling Another Amazon on Android, But This Is Even Bigger.” I liked the write up. It acknowledges in a semi-nice way that Google is either smarter than everyone else or Google is less smart than everyone thinks.
The idea is that open source Android is working like a Petri dish. Instead of growing little Googles, the Petri dish harbors a big Amazon and may soon give birth to a bigger Samsung. Here’s the point I noted:
As much as Google likes and touts that Android is open, that freedom may come with the cost of some control over the platform. Amazon may have started the first truly successful “fork” of Android, but Samsung is going after the whole place setting. Samsung kicked off its first Developers Conference on Monday and based on the keynote message, I wouldn’t be too happy if I were Google.
The point is that Android is supposed to be Google’s open source mobile platform. Others can use it, but Android is Google’s idea.
With iPhones too expensive for most mobile users and Microsoft mobile not getting the buzz Redmond hoped, Android is the mobile platform with legs it seems. Amazon and Samsung have figured this out. The companies have been moving forward with Android that has been reworked to make it less Googlely than Google may have hoped.
Amazon is a lesser problem for Google. Samsung, however, seems to be a bigger potential problem.
But my view is that the larger challenge will be from innovators in other countries who surf on Android. When I was in China, I learned about a number of mobile phones running Android that performed some interesting tricks. One taxi driver had a line of four mobile devices in his taxi. Each mobile had four SIMs. Each SIM connected to a different service providing information about pick ups.
I asked the taxi driver if the phones were running Google Android. The answer was, “I don’t know. There are cheap and do more than a high dollar, upper class phone. These are the future, not Apple or Google.”
Is the taxi driver correct? My view is that Google’s Android is not just fragmented. Android is enabling innovators to go in directions that may prove difficult for Google to control. Samsung may be the near term challenge for Google. Looking out over a longer time line, there may be a different set of challenges created by an open source mobile operating system, new manufacturing options, and a burgeoning demand for mobile devices that are delivering fresh, high-value functionality.
Sure the four phones put on a light show when orders came in. My smart phone has one SIM and was woefully out of step with the Chinese taxi driver’s needs. Google has to think about Android as free and open source software that may spawn some antibiotic resistant competitors.
Stephen E Arnold, October 29, 2013
SmartPlanet: 10 Best Places to do business…
Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Top 10 best and worst places to do business
By Tyler Falk | October 29, 2013
If you’re a small or mid-sized business it will be easiest to do business if you’re based in Asia — places like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.
A new report from the World Bank, says that Asia has about half of the top economies in the world for their ease of doing business. The report ranks 189 world economies based on 11 indicators for how easy it is to start a small or mid-sized business, from access to credit and electricity to ease of employing workers to ability to trade across borders.
“A better business climate that enables entrepreneurs to build their businesses and reinvest in their communities is key to local and global economic growth,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. “Doing Business shows that economies with better business regulations are more likely to empower local entrepreneurs to create more jobs – another step in the right direction toward ending extreme poverty by 2030.”
Here are the report’s 10 most business-friendly economies in the world:
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Paul Craig Roberts: Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race
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Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race
To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the government’s torture and occupation programs. Economists tell lies for corporations and Wall Street. Plant and soil scientists tell lies for agribusiness and Monsanto. Truth tellers are slandered and persecuted. However, persistence can eventually win out. In the long-run, truth sometimes emerges. But not always. And not always in time.
I have been trying to inform the American people, economists, and policymakers for more than a decade about the adverse impacts of jobs offshoring on the US economy. The word has eventually gotten out. Last week I was contacted by 8th grade students competing for their school in CSPAN’s StudentCam Documentary Contest. They want to interview me on the subject of jobs offshoring for their documentary film.
America is a strange place. Here are eighth graders far ahead of the economics profession, the President, the Congress, the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, and the financial press in their understanding of one of the fundamental problems of the US economy. Yet, people say the public schools are failing. Obviously, not the one whose students contacted me.
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SchwartzReport: Good News and Bad
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
BAD NEWS:
Democrats and Republicans alike, for different reasons, have conspired to corrupt the safety of America's food system. Here is some truth about this subject.
Analysis of Impact of Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production Finds Administration and Congress Have Exacerb
John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Here is even more about Fukushima. Click through to see the very important animated maps. Also click through to see the hot links that will take you to the research sites that support the claims made in this report. Ronlyn and I are going to get a geiger counter, and we will have to stop eating locally sourced fish, mussels, and clams.
Arctic Temperatures at 44,000-year High Because of Greenhouse Gases
Aljazeera America
GOOD NEWS:
Here is some good news that speaks directly to our failing educational system. There are alternatives that work.
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
WIRED
This is very good news, but also an example of what I have been predicting for five years: the rise of bi-region collaborations, in the face of the failure of the Federal government to address climate change, and an example of the growing Schism Trend. As I said, this is good news for the West Coast, and it is going to result in another growing dif! ference between the Red value states and the Blue value states, with the former falling further and further behind. In Virginia and North Carolina Theocratic Rightist politicians have literally outlawed even the use of words like climate change in state government documents.
Climate Change Pact Signed by California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
PAUL ROGERS – San Jose Mecury News
