Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1630 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Like marijuana prohibition the objections to raising the minimum wage are shibboleths and myths. As this report details raising the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 has had no bad effect on the restaurant business as the Rightists maintained must inevitably come to pass. Rather the contrary. Republican economic policies the data shows live in a fact free world along with its cousins, climate change denial, evolution denial, and young- Earthers.

Seattle Restaurant Data Demolishes Conservative Argument Against $15 Minimum Wage

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Michel Bauwens: Beyond Jobs New Idea

03 Economy, Crowd-Sourcing

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Millions need flexible blue-collar work. This kind of employment needs attention.

Beyond Jobs

Advanced markets for irregular work.

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Mini-Me: Military Veterans Ask Drone Pilots to Stop

07 Other Atrocities, Drones & UAVs, Ethics, Military

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Military Veterans Target US Drone Strikes in TV Ads

A group of military veterans is taking aim at U.S. drone strikes overseas with graphic TV ads directly asking Air Force pilots to stop flying the unmanned aircraft, calling the operations immoral and illegal.

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Robert Parry: Neocon, R2P Hypocrisy

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military

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Neocons, R2Pers and Hypocrisy

Exclusive: R2Pers say America has a “responsibility to protect” endangered people around the world, but this R2P moral imperative is selective, often indistinguishable from neocons tolerating some slaughters and choosing to wage war against certain enemies — just dressed up in liberal rhetoric, reports Robert Parry.

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Berto Jongman: Brennan Gores CIA

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

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The CIA Director Can't See the Ground from the Ivory Tower (Arkin in Gawker)

The CIA gets a makeover (Ignatius in WashPost)

The truth about that CIA makeover (Schmitt in Fox News)

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Sepp Hasslberger: Social Network Federation Instead of Decentralization — Body Blow to Twitter and Facebook?

Cloud, Crowd-Sourcing, Design, P2P / Panarchy

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Las Indias about changing the way social networks are configured … to get more meaningful relations and conversations – will it work?

GNU social: Federation against the social model of Twitter

“Federation issues” may look like a “bug”, but they are really the result of an agreement, an implicit contract: to be part of a conversation on another node, I first have to have received the trust of someone who is taking part in it.

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Jean Lievens: Peer-to-Peer Economy Displacing Hierarchical Economy?

Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy

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The Peer-to-Peer Economy – A Turning Point in Human History

This Peer-to-Peer economy that is rising up to replace the Industrial/Information economy is difficult to see in its totality, but is everywhere around us.