Category: Threats

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JZ Liszkiewics: Food Chains — Slavery & Abuse in America’s Food Production & Processing

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

In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.  Learn more.

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Berto Jongman: David Kilcullen on Strategy in Relation to ISIS and More

Strategy, Threats

berto smallIslamic State: dealing with an atomised, resurgent terrorist threat

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Don’t equate national security with counterterrorism. The ‘War on Terrorism’ made AQ the dominant threat, prompting governments to structure policy and capability around counterterrorism. We focused narrowly on one threat, and on one subset (AQ leaders) within that threat, and were surprised when killing and capturing them didn’t bring increased security. This time, we need to frame counterterrorism within a broader strategy that includes state-on-state conflict and non-traditional challenges like climate change, urban overstretch and mass migration.

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Antechinus: The Leap Manifesto on Energy (Canada)

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 11 Society
Antechinus
Antechinus

The Leap Manifesto was initiated in the spring of 2015 at a two-day meeting in Toronto and signed up to by more than 100 actors, musicians, labour unions, Indigenous rights leaders, environmentalists and religious leaders. The overarching aim of this “People's Agenda” is to wean the next federal Canadian government off fossil fuels by 2050 with a radical overhaul of the Canadian economy. Significantly, many of the National Democratic Party (currently leading in the polls for next month's federal election) number amongst the manifesto's highest profile supporters. Learn more.

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Mongoose: 9/11 Done by Dick Cheney, NeoCons, and Israel — Saudi “Cover-Up” is Misdirection Ploy

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Officers Call
Mongoose
Mongoose

Worthy of a full reading.

9/11 Truth and the Joint Congressional Inquiry:
28 Pages of Misdirection on the Role of Saudi Arabia

By Dick Atlee, Ken Freeland and Cheryl Curtiss
Updated: 14 September 2015

Phi Beta Iota Comment and Full Text Below the Fold

Continue reading “Mongoose: 9/11 Done by Dick Cheney, NeoCons, and Israel — Saudi “Cover-Up” is Misdirection Ploy”

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Berto Jongman: Global Consensus – Next Time Bankers All Go To Jail

10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption

berto smallThe Banking Criminals Exposed

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I can say with some degree of certainty now that a very large number of academics, law enforcement agencies, and financial compliance consultants are now joined, as one, in their total condemnation of significant elements of the global banking sector for their organised criminal activities.

 

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