Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2006 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Reposted from the C-Realm podcast a great conversation demystifyng economics and some of the myths drawn up around Adam Smith and his writings.

From the shownotes to the episode:

“KMO welcomes Michael Goodwin, author of Economix: How Our Economy Works (And Doesn’t Work) In Words and Pictures to the C-Realm to talk about money, history, the interplay between corporations and government, and Adam Smith’s actual words on the trustworthiness of capitalists. The conversation touches on the NYC soda ban, which Michael favors and KMO disdains. Michael will be the featured speaker at the third Full Circle Series event. KMO concludes with some remarks about the struggles of a small hog farmer in Michigan who is fighting against the Michigan state government, which favors corporate CAFO over the humane animal husbandry of small”

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Sepp Hasslberger: Goodbye Dangerous Kerosene….Hello Safe Solar MiniSun12H !

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This is an indiegogo funding campaign for readying, testing and producing cheap rechargeable solar lights that are competitive with the “normal” kerosene lamps used in developing countries. What I do not understand is why is it up to us to fund this, why isn't industry already producing billions of such lamps… oh yes – profit.

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David Swenson: Lessons from The Square (Tahir)

Cultural Intelligence

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Misplaced Lessons of Tahrir

CONCLUSION:

The lesson I take away from The Square is that we must prevent the operation of business as usual until the institution itself, not its face, is fixed. We can put up giant posters of a black man followed by a white woman followed by some other demographic symbol, but the posters will still be on the walls of prisons, barracks, and homeless shelters, unless we fix the structure of things. That means:

Rights for people, and for the natural environment, not for corporations.
Spending money on elections is not a human right of free speech.
Elections entirely publicly financed.
The right to vote, to have time off work to vote, and to vote on a paper ballot publicly counted at the polling place.
Free air time, ballot access, and debate participation to all candidates who have collected sufficient signatures of potential constituents.
A citizens branch and public initiative power by signature collection.
The application of criminal laws to authorities who commit crimes or abuse their office.
Mandatory impeachment and recall votes for officials facing prosecution.
The right to a decent income, housing, healthcare, education, peace, a healthy environment, and freedom from debt.
The rights of the natural environment to continue and thrive.
The institution of minimum and maximum wages and a ban on extreme wealth.
Demilitarization.
Dismantling of the prison industry.

Give me all of that or give me death. Take your bullshit rhetoric about “liberty” and name a square after it.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Business Intelligence – A Functional Barrier

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

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Business Intelligence: A Functional Barrier

Walls.

I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees. (Robert Frost, Mending Wall)

A reader sent me a link to an item that appeared in Phi Beta Iota. You can find the graphic at http://bit.ly/1d3H3Q4. The original document appeared on 2010 at http://bit.ly/1fnOB2Y. I thought again of walls.

In late 2014, O1Business published a short item that provides more back up for the apparent slow down in some business intelligence markets. You can find that original article at http://bit.ly/1aAgA27. My take on the 01Business story by Marie Jung appeared in December 2013 at http://bit.ly/19VUqH9.

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SchwartzReport: NSA Is Making Us All Less Safe

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military

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People who are truly knowledgeable about IT are appalled about what the NSA is doing and, as this report shows, they are speaking out.

Open Letter From Top U.S. Computer Security Experts Slams NSA Spying As Destroying Security
WashingtonsBlog

The NSA Is Making Us All Less Safe

An open letter today from a large group of professors – top US computer security and cryptography researchers – slams the damage to ecurity caused by NSA spying:

Inserting backdoors, sabotaging standards, and tapping commercial data-center links provide bad actors, foreign and domestic, opportunities to exploit the resulting vulnerabilities.

The value of society-wide surveillance in preventing terrorism is unclear, but the threat that such surveillance poses to privacy, democracy, and the US technology sector is readily apparent.

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