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2014/08/132014/08/13

Edward Snowden with Jim Bamford in WIRED: Next NSA Revelations “Would Be the Death of All of Them Politically”

02 China, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military

The most wanted man in the world

Jim Bamford

WIRED, 13 August 2014

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“It’s like the boiling frog,” Snowden tells me. “You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty, a little bit of deceptiveness, a little bit of disservice to the public interest, and you can brush it off, you can come to justify it. But if you do that, it creates a slippery slope that just increases over time, and by the time you’ve been in 15 years, 20 years, 25 years, you’ve seen it all and it doesn’t shock you. And so you see it as normal. And that’s the problem, that’s what the Clapper event was all about. He saw deceiving the American people as what he does, as his job, as something completely ordinary. And he was right that he wouldn’t be punished for it, because he was revealed as having lied under oath and he didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for it. It says a lot about the system and a lot about our leaders.”

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2014/08/102014/08/09

SchwartzReport: Monsanto “Owns” USDA

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government

It is my view that there exist profoundly immoral and malevolent — the formal definition of evil — corporations. Their corporate vision creates profit by doing something that reduces wellness. Halliburton is one, Monsanto is another. One of the skills these corporations focus on is maintaining high level government connections, and to get your executives in senior positions. So great is the corruption of our government as a result that, as this report de! scribes, the regulatory agencies created to oversee these corporations are tailored to the corporation's wishes.

Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA
DAVID SWANSON – Nation of Change

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been taken over by an outside organization. RootsAction has launched a campaign demanding a Congressional investigation.

The organization is called Monsanto.

2014/08/052014/08/02

SchwartzReport: Loss of Wildlife Increases Child Slavery – Holistic Analytics and True Cost Economics Absent

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 11 Society, Earth Intelligence

This report illustrates that all life is interconnected and interdependent.

How Loss of Wildlife Leads to Child Slavery
NIINA HEIKKINEN and CLIMATEWIRE – Scientific American

What do child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal global ivory trade have in common? Their root causes can all be traced back to declining wildlife populations.

At least that's the theory of a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, who looked at how wildlife loss impacts conflict in places where people depend on wildlife to survive.

Justin Brashares and his colleagues say that the way governments and international organizations respond to crimes like poaching often do not address the full “ecological, social and economic complexity of wildlife-related conflict.”

“We thought it was critical to connect the dots” among disciplines, said Brashares, the lead author of a paper published recently in the journal Science.

“If we don't provide people with livelihoods, if we don't change market dynamics, then we aren't going to win.”

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2014/08/012014/07/30

John Boik: Advanced Economics – Economic Direct Democracy and Open Source Everything

03 Economy, 11 Society

It seems we are in basic agreement on the problems that society faces. You rightly emphasize the coercive nature of income inequality. And, IMHO, you rightly emphasize the role that open-source, open-data, open-design, widening-commons, etc. must play in a better, functional society.

Please allow me to explain the strategy behind my project. In a nutshell, the strategy is to develop a parallel financial–economic–business--social welfare system, at the local level, that complements and competes with existing systems. By system, I mean the code, policies, standards, and procedures needed to encourage more cooperative and democratic economic behavior.

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2014/07/292014/07/27

Berto Jongman: UK Pedophilia Update — Thatcher Pedophiles, Police Cover Up

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Corruption, Law Enforcement

Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet bigwigs named in Leon Brittan paedo files

The file is said to have named Sir Keith Joseph and Sir Rhodes Boyson amid warnings of an active child abuse network in Westminster

Former Minister says Thatcher aide was paedophile who preyed on boys' home – and Hague should have known

An ex-Tory minister has claimed Sir Peter Morrison was implicated in the child abuse scandal that engulfed children's homes in North Wales
An inquiry discovered up to 650 children in 40 homes were sexually, physically and emotionally in the 1970s and '80s
Rod Richards, a former Tory MP, said he had seen evidence linking the former aide to Baroness Thatcher to the scandal

Police to investigate whether their own officers and politicians tried to ‘cover-up' alleged abuse at school linked to Cyril Smith

Sir Cyril Smith allegedly sexually abused young boys at Knowl View School
Despite many complaints by victims, late politician was never prosecuted
Separate inquiry to identify who took part in the alleged abuse is ongoing
Now, police will investigate alleged cover-up of abuse at Rochdale school
They will look at whether own officers and local politicians were part of it

2014/07/172014/07/14

Jean Lievens: Helsinki’s Plan to End Car Ownership

05 Energy, 11 Society

Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years

Finland's capital hopes a ‘mobility on demand' system that integrates all forms of shared and public transport in a single payment network could essentially render private cars obsolete

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Helsinki aims to transcend conventional public transport by allowing people to purchase mobility in real time, straight from their smartphones. The hope is to furnish riders with an array of options so cheap, flexible and well-coordinated that it becomes competitive with private car ownership not merely on cost, but on convenience and ease of use.

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2014/07/142014/07/13

Mini-Me: Pope on Catholic Priests Who Are Pedophiles — 2% (8,000) or More? 848 Defrocked, 2,572 in Isolation — How About 10%?

06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society

Huh?

Did Pope Francis really say 2% of Catholic clergy are pedophiles?

Lauren Raab

Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2014

An interview that credits Pope Francis as saying about 2% of Roman Catholic clerics are pedophiles stirred controversy Sunday, as the Vatican sought to raise questions about the article's accuracy and others called on the pope to take more action on the issue.

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At a United Nations hearing this year, the Vatican said it had defrocked 848 priests over the last decade and ordered 2,572 to “live a life of prayer and penance” because of abuse allegations. There are about 414,000 Roman Catholic priests worldwide, according to the BBC; if 2% are pedophiles, that would be more than 8,000.

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