Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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SchwartzReport: Everything Americans Think They Know About Drugs Is Wrong: A Scientist Explodes the Myths

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

schwartz reportFinally some actual facts about drugs and drug use. This report is, I hope, the first of many making it clear that the War on Drugs is basically a racist jihad against the poor and disadvantaged used to support an entire bureaucracy of police, judges, prosecutors, prisons, prison guards, and everyone else who can figure an angle to get their snout in the public tax money trough under this umbrella. All these people ar! e making a living off the pain and suffering of millions, mostly people of color. Worse this war is responsible, in the same way the alcohol prohibition created the modern Mafia, for creating the Drug cartels. The entire effort is a study in dysfunction, greed, racism, and stupidity, and it has been going on now for decades with no appreciable effect on reducing drug availability.

Everything Americans Think They Know About Drugs Is Wrong: A Scientist Explodes the Myths
KRISTEN GWYNNE – AlterNet (U.S.)

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NIGHTWATCH: Brazil Unravels — Is this an Opportunity for NATO?

01 Brazil, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

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Brazil: The largest anti-government demonstrations in 20 years, according to news analysts, have continued for five days in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and eight other cities. News reports said 65,000 people demonstrated in Sao Paulo and over 100,000 marched in Rio. Social networking enabled coordinated marches in Sao Paulo, Rio and Belo Horizonte. Most of the demonstrations have been peaceful.

President Dilma Rousseff said in a brief statement, “Peaceful demonstrations are legitimate and part of democracy. It is natural for young people to demonstrate.”

No deaths have been reported. About 200 people have been injured around the country.

Comment: An increase in the cost of public transportation in Sao Paulo sparked the first demonstrations, which flash mob tactics swelled. As the demonstrations spread, demonstrators said they were protesting government corruption, poor economic conditions, criminal violence and lack of public safety, official spending for the Olympics in 2016 and the World Cup in 2014 and rising prices.

The government response has been much more restrained than that of the Turkish government and the violence has been much less. Nevertheless, the phenomenology looks very similar.

The police said they would not intervene to stop the demonstrations provided they did not result in property destructions. A small group of protestors in Rio set a car on fire. The car fire prompted the clash with police, which dominated international media coverage and misrepresented the peaceful nature of the demonstrations.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Security a Corporate Concern

Commerce
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Open Source Security Remains Corporate Concern

Posted: 22 May 2013 06:15 AM PDT

When it comes to enterprise information technology concerns, security is usually at the top of the list. Some say that using open source software leaves an organization more susceptible to security risks, while others argue just the opposite. This very debate continues in the Java World article, “Survey: Control and Security of Corporate Open Source Projects Proves Difficult.”

The article hones in a particular component of the security issue, whether or not an organization utilizes an open source policy. Results were compiled through a survey:

“When the 3,500 survey respondents were asked what are the biggest challenges in their company’s open-source policy, the main reasons listed were ‘no enforcement,’ ‘it slows down development’ and ‘we find out about problems too late in the process.’ When asked who in the organization has primary responsibility for open-source policy and governance, 36 percent ascribed that role to ‘application-development management,’ 14 percent to ‘IT operations,’ 16 percent to legal, 13 percent to an open-source committee or department, 7 percent to security, 7 percent to risk and compliance and 7 percent to ‘other.’”

So of the organizations that do utilize an open source policy, many acknowledge little enforcement paltry oversight. These concerns are real. However, an organization may benefit from a compromise, a value-added open source software option. A solution like LucidWorks is fully packaged and supported; not just free-roaming bits of code to be grabbed from the free web. Users and managers can feel more confident in LucidWorks because it is packaged in a way that is easier for them to understand. Most importantly, LucidWorks has long-term industry support and positive track record.

Emily Rae Aldridge, May 24, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search

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David Swanson: Lisa Savage on Afghanistan Myths & Reality — 20 More Years

Cultural Intelligence
David Swanson
David Swanson

Afghanistan Drawdown, 20 More Years Of War

By lisa savage – Posted on 23 May 2013

In order to reduce the number of boots on the ground in Afghanistan, the Pentagon asked Congress for $9.6 billion of its allowance to be moved from one budget line to another. They asked permission to shift funds away from research and weapons purchases to instead “support funding shortfalls” in transportation, due to the high cost of removing from landlocked, mountainous Afghanistan. The Pentagon is reluctant to run short on funds for fuel, engaged as it is in the business of maintaining the largest carbon footprint on the planet.

But lest you make the mistake of thinking that withdrawal of many troops from Afghanistan means the war is over, a Pentagon official testifying to the Senate Armed Services committee said that the current war on terrorism could continue for ten, or maybe even twenty, more years. Also, now battlefields are chosen by “the enemy” and thus can and do keep cropping up in all sorts of unlikely places — even Boston.

Downsizing the occupation consists of relying more and more on drones, or flying killer robots, and less and less on soldiers. Our mammoth fortified “embassy” in Kabul isnearly complete, Pepsi is building a new bottling plant there, and our imperial ambitions are leaning toward Africa while simultaneously pivoting to the Pacific. Look for more request for advances on the Pentagon's allowance.

What chaos do we leave in our wake as we “exit” Afghanistan? Every major news outlet (all owned by a few corporations, all headed by wealthy white men) participates in churning out the falsehoods that conceal the weeping of the bereaved in Kabul and Kandahar — so that people in North America cannot hear them.

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Jon Rappoport: Center for Disease Control is a Taxpayer-Funded Fraud — The Flu Is Not the Flu, Lies Focus on Protecting the Money Machine Not the Public

03 Economy, 07 Health, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

A new giant vaccine scandal exposes government lies and psyops

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport

If you control the use of words and numbers, you can make trillions of dollars, and you can hide scandals that would otherwise take you down into infamy and prison.

You can pretty much operate a whole sector of society and remain untouched.

Nowhere is this more clear than in the criminal work of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The real name of that agency should be: Centers for Disease Information Control. That’s what they do. They manipulate words and numbers to present fictional images to the public.

They’re a tax-funded PR front for the medical cartel. A 24/7 psyop.

“Yes, of course I’m a criminal. I work for the CDC.”

Here is the latest blockbuster.

After writing about fake vaccine science since 1988, I thought I’d seen it all:

Wild falsehoods about vaccines creating immunity; suppressed information about toxic ingredients in the shots; the absence of proper controlled studies proving vaccines are safe and effective.

But now Peter Doshi, PhD, writing in the online BMJ (British Medical Journal), reveals a new monstrosity. It’s all based on the revelation that most “flu” is not the flu.

Follow this closely. If you blink, you might miss it.

You see, as Doshi states, every year, hundreds of thousands of respiratory samples are taken from flu patients in the US and tested in labs. Here is the kicker: only a small percentage of these samples show the presence of a flu virus.

This means: most of the people in America who are diagnosed by doctors with the flu have no flu virus in their bodies.

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