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SchwartzReport: Monsanto “Owns” USDA

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

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.

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Jean Lievens: Defining the Sharing Economy

03 Economy
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Slideshare, 20 slides.

The Sharing Economy Lacks a Shared Definition

Giving meaning to the terms

TERMINOLOGY CONFUSION

There are different terms being used to describe the growing space that includes the likes of Airbnb, Lyft, Zipcar, and Taskrabbit. Namely, the ‘Sharing Economy,' ‘Peer Economy,' ‘Collaborative Consumption,' and the ‘Collaborative Economy.'

Do these terms have different meanings?

YES.

See full briefing.

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Jean Lievens: Jeremiah Owyang on The Collaborative Economy

03 Economy
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

A Market Definition Report: The Collaborative Economy

Jeremiah Owyang

Products, services, and market relationships have changed as sharing startups impact business models. To avoid disruption, company must adopt the Collaborative Economy Value Chain.

Challenges:

Government officials oppose sharing that disrupts existing regulations.
Lack of trust between peer-to-peer “buyers” and “sellers.”
Lack of industry-wide reputation systems and data standards.
Incumbent players view sharing as a threat to their current business models.
Uncertainty about which startups will stand the test of time.

Read full report.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Microwave Engine for Space Travel?

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

NASA Scientists Claim “Impossible” Space Travel Engine Could Actually Work

While some may say that nothing is impossible, that is a word that has been frequently used by experts to describe SPR Ltd’s EmDrive. To some, EmDrive is crazy, junk science that will never amount to anything; however, its inventor Roger Shawyer has stuck by it resolutely and insists that this novel spacecraft propulsion system works.

EmDrive is a highly efficient propellant-less propulsion system that converts microwave energy into thrust inside a sealed chamber. Such a system would be a complete game changer in spaceflight; it could dramatically cut the cost of satellites and space stations, extend the lives of spacecrafts and drive deep-space missions. But there’s a problem- it violates Newtonian laws of physics, in particular the law of conservation of momentum. Critics have therefore claimed that any thrust generated by prototype systems tested so far must be coming from another source.

Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Microwave Engine for Space Travel?”

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Jerome Glenn: Some Elements of the Next Global Economic System

03 Economy
Jerome Glenn
Jerome Glenn

Some Elements of the Next Global Economic System

How Might These New Elements Affect the Human Condition over the Next 20 Years?

Leading futurists, future-oriented economists, and future-oriented financial experts were invited to participate in this study, thinking 20 years ahead for imagining alternative futures for the world economy.

See list of 35 elements with ranks and comments.

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Yoda: Tolodo Water Toxins

12 Water
Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Water in Toledo found to contain toxin; emergency declared

With 600,000 people at the west end of Lake Erie advised Saturday not to drink their tap water due to the presence of a toxin, experts here said water remains safe.

“There’s no cause for alarm here,” said Paul Whittam, director of water quality services at the Erie County Water Authority. “Water quality is excellent on this end of the lake.”

Water at a Toledo, Ohio, treatment plant has tested positive for microcystin, a toxin known to cause liver and kidney damage, leaving thousands of Ohio residents without water and prompting a state of emergency Saturday.

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Penguin: US Sailors at Fukushima – Infertility, Pregancy Disorders, Full-Scale Cover-Up by US Navy

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Military, Officers Call
Who, Me?
Who, Me?

Gov’t Report: Over 1,750 navy sailors suffer from ‘ill-defined conditions’ after exposure to Fukushima radiation while aboard USS Reagan — ‘Significant increases’ in male infertility and child birth complications — Dozens have thyroid disorders, many spontaneous abortions — Veteran: ‘Extreme measures’ used to cover this up.

Itemized listing of USS Reagan diseases being actively concealed by US Navy.

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