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Stephen E. Arnold: Hewlett Packard (HP) Implodes — Stupid Over Autonomy, Corrupt at Root — the Same HP That Killed Alta Vista

Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
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Stephen E. Arnold

Frequentists Versus Bayesians: Is HP Amused?

I read a long report and then a handful of spin off reports about HP and Autonomy, mid February 2014 version. The Financial Times’s story is a for fee job. You can get a feel for the information in “HP Executives Knew of Autonomy’s Hardware Sales Losses: Report.” There are clever discussions of this allegedly “new information” in a number of blogs. What is interesting is an allegedly accurate chunk of information in “HP Explores Settlement of Autonomy Shareholder Lawsuit.” My head is spinning. HP buys something. Changes the person on watch when the deal was worked out. HP gets a new boss and makes changes to its board of directors. HP then accuses everyone except itself for buying Autonomy for a lot of money. HP then whips up the regulators, agitates accounting firms, and pokes Michael Lynch with a cattle prod.

As this activity was in the microwave, it appears that HP knew how the hardware/software deals were handled. If the reports are accurate, Dell hardware was more desirable than HP’s hardware.

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SchwartzReport: US Food Prices to Soar Soon?

01 Agriculture, 01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Earth Intelligence
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Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I think this is a pretty good assessment concerning what is coming in food prices.

15 Reasons Why Your Food Prices Are About To Start Soaring
MICHAEL SNYDER – ZeroHedge

Did you know that the U.S. state that produces the most vegetables is going through the worst drought it has ever experienced and that the size of the total U.S. cattle herd is now the smallest that it has been since 1951? Just the other day, a CBS News article boldly declared that “food prices soar as incomes stand still”, but the truth is that this is only just the beginning.

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Penguin: Watch Out! Sane Conservatives & Anonymous in Confluence ! ! ! !

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
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Who, Me?
Who, Me?

Who would have imagined!

The Untold Story of Antiwar Conservatives

And how the truth about invading Iraq was suppressed by laptop bombardiers.

What’s missing from reminiscences of the War on Iraq is how and why the war propaganda was spread so effectively, particularly among Republicans. In fact, the refusal of most conservative media to publish contrary information was one of the reasons this magazine was founded. The American Conservative provided an outlet for many respected conservatives who couldn’t get antiwar views published.

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Conservatives opposed to empire and war included Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell, Charley Reese, Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Gottfried, myself, Doug Bandow, Bill Kauffman, Sheldon Richman, Leon Hadar, Allan Brownfeld, Martin Sieff, Phil Giraldi, as well as other respected leaders such as congressmen John Duncan and Ron Paul and future senator James Webb.

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The loose collective Anonymous have targeted a number of big institutions in recent years
The loose collective Anonymous have targeted a number of big institutions in recent years

VIDEO: Eminem, Ice Cube and Korn Team Up with Anonymous to Call For Global Revolution
‘Everything's corrupt, everything's fucked up.'

The word “epic” long ago lost all its linguistic potency when Burger King and Hot Topic began to use it in the advertisement of their products. Yet if ever if there was an occasion to resurrect the term, it would be to describe the music video released today by elements of Anonymous along with Ice Cube, Eminem, and Korn.

They team up to splice together a nuance-eschewing, face-melting, testosterone-charged collaboration meant to incept a massive wave of action against the seemingly indomitable power of corporatist-totalitarianism within the world's leading liberal republics.

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Evan Ellis: China-CELAC Forum

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
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Evan Ellis

Here is my new article on the China-CELAC forum.

I wish to note that the article does not in any way represent the views of my employer, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, or the U.S. government.

PDF: China's Strategy in Latin America – CELAC Foru

Online version: Manzella Report

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BUCKY 2.0: Stanford University Library – R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
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Buckminster Fuller

The R. Buckminster Fuller Digital Collection consists of audio and video materials culled and digitally reformatted from the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection at Stanford. This project is supported in part by a grant from the federal Save America's Treasures Program, a joint program of the National Parks Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In keeping with the educational and public service goals of Stanford University Libraries, the digital archive on this site is being made available without charge to registered users.

Registration for full access to everything is simple, fast, and free.

Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources

Stanford Home Page for R. Buckminster Fuller

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