The first website went online 25 years ago today
Tim Berners-Lee's first World Wide Web page flickered to life at CERN on December 20th, 1990.
Phi Beta Iota: OSS.Net was created in 1993, originally as a gopher site.
Mongoose: Irresponsible Government = Infectious Diseases
02 Infectious Disease, Corruption, Government
UK faces alarming rates of ‘Victorian’ diseases
London – It has been mistakenly assumed that ancient diseases are totally eradicated, especially in developed countries. The United Kingdom particularly is now facing a “Victorian” disease epidemic, as cases of tuberculosis, scurvy, cholera, whooping cough, and scarlet fever are rising alarmingly. Experts believe the main causes could be immigration, malnutrition, poverty and lack of access to health care.
Ty Simpson : Monsanto Closing 3 Research Centers, Cutting 2,600 Jobs
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption
Monsanto Reports the Closing of 3 Research and Development Centers
After announcing a 2,600 job cut
Following news made just weeks ago about Monsanto slashing 2,600 jobs and ending $3 billion to buy back shares from investors, the biotech giant is now reporting that it will be closing 3 research and development centers in order to cut costs in the agricultural commodities market.
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With more and more consumers looking for non-GMO food, the heyday for biotech patented seed just might be coming to an end.
NATO Wants You! — Call to Join Allied Reach Online Workshop
#Events
Allied Reach 2016 is a seminar that gathers the NATO Military Leaders to discuss both the operational needs of today and innovative and transformational concepts of tomorrow.Its purpose is to provide actionable recommendations that support NATO’s military adaptation to operations in a dynamic and complex security environment. The Insights for Allied Reach Online Workshop offers everyone the opportunity to contribute insights that will feed the Allied Reach seminar.
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Mongoose: Elliot Higgins & BellingCat Blown
Civil Society, Corruption, MediaComments by Abe made in response to Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) “A Call for Proof on Syria-Sarin Attack,” Consortiumnews.com, provide compelling indictment of Elliot Higgins and BellingCat, pretenders in the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) world who have taken in the gullible in the mainstream media. We find these comments so useful we are preserving them in their entirely here below.
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Phillip J. Watt: What You Need to Know…
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Information that Society Needs to Wake the Fu*k Up
Phi Beta Iota: The author provides seventy-two points that represent the best possible distillation of truths the public needs to appreciate. We think so highly of this that we are mirroring the entire post, something we do not normally do, to assure its preservation. Full text below the line. Click on headline to read in the original.
Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman.
Philippe Baumard: Denial: uncertainty in economics and strategy — do not abandon thinking in favor of ideology
Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
No words can express the sadness we all felt after the attacks that targeted France on 13 November. Facing the irreparable, and more than ever, the strategic vacuum the question arises. I am pleased to participate in a conference whose objective is to encourage the study and practice of the strategy, as part of this collective initiative that was the Encyclopedia of strategy.
A strategic vacuum is a situation where the economic models, societal, “strategic” cease to provide relevant answers to a crisis involving the sustainability of a company, of a political, economic or military. It is, in mirror, a window of opportunity for those who exploit the lack of direction, the confusion of beliefs, the vulnerability of a social or economic fabric prey to superstitious beliefs, or dismayed by the repetition of peoples empty.
