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SchwartzReport: Genetic Modication – Case Study in Fraud, Waste, & Abuse Starting with Corruption of Information and Falsification of Intelligence

Genetic Engineering and the GMO Industry: Corporate Hijacking of Food and Agriculture “I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle” – Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, “The Spirit of Enterprise”, 1934. When rich companies with politically-connected lobbyists and seats on government-appointed bodies bend …

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Review: Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds – American Intelligence Agency Report on the Megatrends, Gamechangers, and Black Swans of the Future, the Rise of China, Alternative World Scenarios

CIA National Intelligence Council 3.0 out of 5 stars Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts, December 27, 2012 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to a national or corporate leader, and generally nothing new. To …

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Dolphin: Dishonesty was on display everywhere in 2012

Old news but always worth revisiting. Dishonesty was on display everywhere in 2012 USA Today, 26 December 2012 EXTRACT: “Cheating creates its own gravitational force. The very act of cheating and getting away with it significantly increases the chances you’ll do it again,” says Michael Josephson, president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics in Los …

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2012 Robert Steele Proposal for a World Brain Institute and Development of a Global Game

Proposal for a World Brain Institute and Development of a Global Game ·Transhumanism, December 26, 2012 [Editor’s Note: The World Brain was  proposed in collection of essays by H. G. Wells, wherein Wells describes his vision of the world brain: essentially a free, synthetic, universal, authoritative, and permanent “World Encyclopaedia” very much like today’s Wikipedia. Wells imagined this resource would help world …

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Reflections on the US Military — Redirection Essential — and a Prerequisite to Creating a 450-Ship Navy, a Long-Haul Air Force, and an Air-Liftable Army + Sanity RECAP

Telling the truth to those who have replaced intelligence with ideology and integrity with loyalty to something other than their Republic is most difficult and more often than not will get you fired, because those without integrity tend to be promoted in corrupt systems, and they see clearly the threat to their world-view — and …

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Reference: Atlantic Council Envisioning 2030: US Strategy for a Post-Western World

Document:  Envisioning 2030: US Strategy for a Post-Western World (Atlantic Council, 10 December 2030) Executive Summary Agree that we are at a potentially historic transition point.  However, the Atlantic Council lacks the strategic analytic model to make the most of its otherwise formidable brain trust.  Agree on the need for a new mental map, but …

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SchwartzReport: Obesity Bigger Health Problem than Hunger

Global report: Obesity bigger health crisis than hunger By Danielle Dellorto, CNN updated 5:41 AM EST, Fri December 14, 2012 Obesity is a bigger health crisis globally than hunger, and the leading cause of disabilities around the world, according to a new report published Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet. Nearly 500 researchers …

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