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Pierre Cloutier: Quebec Heads for Independence UPDATE 1

08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence
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Pierre Cloutier

Worth listening to very carefully. Listen specially at 1.53.03 in English. This is the first time a chief of the Parti Québécois says these things in English.

Phi Beta Iota: By 2025, no later, we expect Quebec, Scotland, Hawaii, and Vermont to be sovereign republics. If the USA wishes to retain its geographic integrity, it had better re-establish political integrity. Electoral reform is non-negotiable.

UPDATE 1: YouTube (2:32) English portion of Quebec Independence Speech

YouTube (2:06:44) Below the Line. HISTORIC.

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James Mattis: US Suffers from Strategic Atrophy

Strategy-Holistic Coherence
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General James Mattis, USMC

Mattis: U.S. Suffering ‘Strategic Atrophy’

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USNI News, 14 May 2014

Speaking in Washington, D.C., retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis said, “the perception is we’re pulling back” on America’s commitment to its allies and partners, leaving them adrift in a changing world. “We have strategic atrophy.”

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Rob Hall: Visions of a Positive Future

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Rob Kall

Visions of a Positive Future vs Fixing a Pathological Present

it is not enough to resist or fight the system and the problems that exist. It is absolutely inadequate to aim for repairing the symptoms of what is broken. We need big, positive visions which lift our sights higher, towards horizons where there are bright futures, not scotch tape and bubblegum fixes for the pathological system we currently inhabit.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Natural Intelligence — Superior to Human Intelligence?

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Sepp Hasslberger

Our view of what constitutes intelligence may be skewed. Certainly we can't be proud of behaving intelligently if we consider our influence on the eco-environment that we are embedded in.

What If Humans Aren't the Most Intelligent Creatures on the Planet?

Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd makes a good argument in a recent Facebook post that perhaps humans concept of intelligence is anthropocentric and lacking in breadth.

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Sepp Hasslberger: GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines Kill 14 Babies, Falsified Parental Approvals and More…

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities
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Sepp Hasslberger

Is it time to call it quits on vaccines yet?

GSK fined over vaccine trials; 14 babies reported dead

GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories Company was fined 400,000 pesos by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) for irregularities during lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008 that allegedly killed 14 babies. Likewise, two doctors -Héctor Abate, and Miguel Tregnaghi- were fined 300,000 pesos each for irregularities during the studies. The charges included experimenting with human beings as well falsifying parental authorizations so babies could participate in the vaccine-trials conducted by the laboratory from 2007 to 2008.

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Joseph Stiglitz: New New Lipstick on the Pig

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Design
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Today, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia professor and former economic advisor to Bill Clinton, [published] a new report for the Roosevelt Institute entitled “Rewriting the Rules,” which is basically a roadmap for what many progressives would like to see happen policy wise over the next four years.

Eight “fixes” and PBI commentary below the fold.

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