Policies – Page 233 – Public Intelligence Blog

From 45 homicides to 11 in seven years.

Tim Murphy, Mother Jones

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Four times a year, the program's street team sifts through police records and its own intelligence to determine, with actuarial detachment, the 50 people in Richmond most likely to shoot someone and to be shot themselves. ONS tracks them and approaches the most lethal (and vulnerable) on the list, offering them a spot in a program that includes a stipend to turn their lives around.

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2015/07/302015/07/28

Steven Aftergood: CRS on Microbead Threat to Water Quality

12 Water

Microbeads: An Emerging Water Quality Issue

Claudia Copeland, Specialist in Resources and Environmental Policy (ccopeland@crs.loc.gov, 7-7227)
July 20, 2015 (IN10319)

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Microbeads are synthetic particles made of either polyethylene or polypropylene plastic. … Because microbeads are so small, most wastewater treatment plant technology is not capable of removing them from the wastestream. Most microbeads do not biodegrade, as they require high heat processing to break down, which municipal sewage systems are typically unable to do.

Full report below the fold.

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2015/07/272015/07/27

Cynthia McKinny: PschDrugShooters

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement

Someone has taken the time to catalog mass shooters in relation to the psychological drugs they have been prescribed.

PsychDrugShooters

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2015/07/272015/07/25

Eagle: Brain-Eating Amoeba in New Orleans Water

07 Health, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

A Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba, Naegleria Fowleri, Has Been Found In A New Orleans Suburb Water Supply

A horrifying announcement was made Wednesday by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The deadly brain-eating Naelgeria Fowleri Amoeba has once again been found in the water supply in two of the seven water sites that supply St. Bernard Parish, a New Orleans suburb that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago.

2015/07/272015/07/25

Berto Jongman: Doctors Murdered Over GcMAF

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Commerce, Corruption, Government

Over seven doctors dead, recently, all connected to GcMAF

Video: Is This Why ‘Alternative’ Doctors Are Being Murdered?

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GcMaf is used for the treatment of cancer, autism, inflammation, viral and bacterial disease and since 1990, 59 research papers have been published on GcMAF, 20 of those pertaining to the treatment of cancer.

2015/07/262015/07/26

Gareth Porter: Obama’s False Narrative on Iran — Zionists — and Sunni Dictators “Own” the White House and the Black House

02 Diplomacy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Iran, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, IO Deeds of War

Obama’s line on the Iran nuclear deal: A second false narrative

Buying into the narrative that Iran is a rogue nuclear state could harm the thawing of relations between the country and the US

Intelligence Director Clapper Says Iran Agreement Provides Access, Insight

Iran unlikely to spend most of its post-sanctions funds on militants, CIA says

Kerry Warns: Jews Will Be Blamed If Congress Sinks Iran Deal

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2015/07/262015/07/25

Jean Lievens: Social Europe on Digital Revolution – Impact on Work and Inequality

03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO

What Impact Does The Digital Revolution Have On Work And Inequality?

The following is a transcript of a Social Europe podcast in which Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer discusses the impact of the Digital Revolution on the nature of work and inequality with Michael A. Osborne, Associate Professor in Machine Learning and Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment at the University of Oxford.

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In our study we highlighted three bottlenecks to computerisation, as we call them. They were exactly creativity, social intelligence and perception or manipulation.

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