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2014/10/25

Mini-Me: German Mustard Gas Used by Iraq Against Iran Under US Supervision — Is Russian Money Buying the Truth?

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Media

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Journalist Reveals Iraqis Used German Mustard Gas on Iranians Under US Watch in 1988

MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) – A prominent German journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, has revealed that Iraqis, guided by the United States, used German mustard gas against Iranian soldiers in 1988.

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The mustard gas was brought to Iraq from Germany labeled as “pesticides,” Ulfkotte explained in the e-mail. “The US gave the satellite photos of the Iranian positions and supervised the action and the Iraqis did it – and I photographed it and was not allowed to publish it,” the journalist said.

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2014/10/25

Graphic: ICT, The Sharing Economy, & Sustainability

Balance, Citizen-Centered, Earth Orientation, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Reform, Resilience, True Cost

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Jean Lievens: The sharing economy – make it sustainable

03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

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The sharing economy: make it sustainable

Damien Demailly; Anne-Sophie Novel

Studies N°03/2014. Iddri, 2014. 32 p.

Is the sharing economy a tool for ecological transition? The main objective of this report is to analyse the environmental potential of the sharing economy, considered in its full diversity, and the conditions for the realization of this potential.

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2014/10/25

Berto Jongman: Obama’s Nuclear Hypocrisy – Spend One Trillion — Never Mind the Promise of a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Military

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Obama Promised a “World Without Nuclear Weapons,” But May Now Spend $1 Trillion on Upgrades

A recent New York Times investigation found the United States is on pace to spend as much as $1 trillion over the next three decades to modernize its nuclear arsenal and facilities. This week, more than 150 countries at the United Nations signed a joint statement calling on nuclear powers to attend the third major conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons scheduled this December in Vienna. The United States has yet to attend one of the meetings.

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2014/10/25

Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data & Artificial Intelligence — Worse Than Gambling

IO Impotency

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Looking for an AI Silver Bullet to Make Software Smart? Keep Looking

Here in Harrod’s Creek, Kentucky there is not too much chatter about machine learning. It is hunting season. Time to get out the Barrett Automatic Rifle and go hunting for varmints. Sundown yesterday when calm returned to the hollow, I read “Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts.”

My thought after reading the IEEE article was that I was really tired of the artificial intelligence yap yap. Now a whiz at UCal Berkeley is pointing out that some of the methods are a “cartoon.” The Dr. Michael Jordan says:

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