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SearchesWorth a Look: YouTube on Awakening & Truth
Worth A Look
A few trending items that run counter to the establishment predeliction to continue doing the wrong things. All very short.
What is Truth? … The Four Global Truths: An Introduction
Spiritual Awakening – Which is the world you are living? … AWAKENING
Consciousness: Mind Over Matter … Experiments in Consciousness
Koko: Weak Assumptions on Nuclear, Levee Designs
03 Economy, 05 Energy, 12 Water, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Nuclear Plants have not been designed for being flooded by tsunami nor for earthquakes of the sort anticipated in the near-term.
Levees all across America–and perhaps in other parts of the world–have not been designed for “heavy weather” of the sort that destroyed the largest “conventional” levee protecting the city of New Orleans.
This is a short-coming that will ultimately be fatal for more than one community, and it is not being corrected by anyone.
Quake Motion May Have Exceeded Plant's Design
Earthquake simulator gives model levee a big shake
Reference: EUROPOL Organized Crime Overview 2011
EUROPOL, Law Enforcement, White Papers
Organised crime is changing and becoming increasingly diverse in its methods, group structures, and impact on society, reveals Europol’s 2011 Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA), published today.
The bi–annual report, which assesses current and expected trends in organised crime affecting the European Union, explores how a new criminal landscape is emerging, marked increasingly by highly mobile and flexible groups operating in multiple jurisdictions and criminal sectors.
The report highlights the fact that criminal groups are increasingly multi–commodity and poly–criminal in their activities, gathering diverse portfolios of criminal business interests, improving their resilience at a time of economic austerity and strengthening their capability to identify and exploit new illicit markets. Activities such as carbon credit fraud, payment card fraud and commodity counterfeiting attract increasing interest due to a lower level of perceived risk.
Summary of the Report (Full Report Below)
EU Organised Crime Threat Assessment: OCTA 2011
Phi Beta Iota: This is the executive summary paragraph that resonates with us:
- The knowing cooperation of specialists in the transport, financial, real estate, legal and pharmaceutical sectors is a notable facilitating factor for organised crime. In the current economic climate businesses, particularly in sectors capable of providing support for commodity trafficking or money laundering, have become more vulnerable to corruptive influence.
Seth Godin: Warning signs of defending the status quo
Blog Wisdom, Cultural Intelligence
The warning signs of defending the status quo
When confronted with a new idea, do you:
- Consider the cost of switching before you consider the benefits?
- Highlight the pain to a few instead of the benefits for the many?
- Exaggerate how good things are now in order to reduce your fear of change?
- Undercut the credibility, authority or experience of people behind the change?
- Grab onto the rare thing that could go wrong instead of amplifying the likely thing that will go right?
- Focus on short-term costs instead of long-term benefits, because the short-term is more vivid for you?
- Fight to retain benefits and status earned only through tenure and longevity?
- Embrace an instinct to accept consistent ongoing costs instead of swallowing a one-time expense?
- Slow implementation and decision making down instead of speeding it up?
- Embrace sunk costs?
- Imagine that your competition is going to be as afraid of change as you are? Even the competition that hasn't entered the market yet and has nothing to lose…
- Emphasize emergency preparation and the expense of a chronic and degenerative condition?
Calling it out when you see it might give your team the strength to make a leap.
DefDog: Mystery Drone in Pakistan–And No HUMINT
InfoOps (IO), IO Impotency, Technologies
We use technology because we don't have anyone trained to do the “on the ground” job. DIA says no to anyone staying in place for five years (they might go native) so we never develop the level of expertise the Brits had…..native would answer General Flynn's questions…..
Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan
Spencer Ackerman
WIRED, 29 August 2011
It looks a bit like silver bird. It probably was used to spy on insurgents. And now it’s in the hands of the Pakistanis.
WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson flags pictures of an unusual, unfamiliar drone that reportedly crashed crashed over southwestern Pakistan late last week. It’s a surveillance drone, with a camera attached — recovered from the crash but not apparently visible in this photo — rather than the larger, deathly flying robots that shoot missiles. This one looks tiny, with a wingspan not much longer than a man’s outstretched arms, and clearly light enough for a grown man to carry.
Search: map of united states after flood
SearchesThere are two graphics we recommend. The first is the general map of the post-flood future for the world centered on the USA. The second is a map of all levees in the USA, all subject to natural over-ride.
