Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2078 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Palantir: What Is the Main Business of the Company?

I read about Palantir and its successful funding campaign in “Palantir’s Latest Round Valuing It at $9B Swells to $107.8M in New Funding.”

If you run a query for “Palantir” on Beyond Search, you will get links to articles about the company’s previous funding and to a couple of stories about the companies interaction with IBM i2 related to an allegation about Palantir’s business methods.

Compared to the funding for ordinary search and content processing companies, Palantir is obviously able to attract investors better than most of the other companies that make sense out of data.

I find Palantir interesting for three reasons.

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Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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CIA FOLLIES: FBI Levinson in Iran Tasked by Analysts (We Do Not Make This Stuff Up) – 3 Veteran Analysts Fired, Others Disciplines (AP)

Phi Beta Iota: One more reason why exploitation of all 15 slices of HUMINT need to be governed and managed as one.

CULTURE: Brzezinski on Ukraine's Irreversible Events

CULTURE: Japanese-Korean Spies & Future

CULTURE: National Security and Local Police (PDF 86 Pages, Brennan Center for Justice)

CYBER: 62% of Web Taffic is Not Human (The Atlantic)

CYBER: Electormagnetic Pulse “Black Swan” Coming Soon? (High Frontier)

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4th Media: 3 Ways Tthe Super-Rich Suck Wealth out of the Rest of Us

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

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3 Ways the Super-Rich Suck Wealth out of the Rest of Us

The facts are indisputable, the conclusion painful. The wealthiest people in the U.S. and around the world have used the stock market and the deregulated financial system to lay claim to the resources that should belong to all of us.

This is not a matter of productive people benefiting from their contributions to society. This is a relatively small number of people extracting massive amounts of money through the financial system for accomplishing almost nothing.

1. They Create Imaginary Money That Turns Real

The world’s wealth has doubled in a little over ten years. The financial industry has, in effect, created a whole new share of global wealth and redistributed much of it to itself.

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SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

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Yet another chapter opens on our distant past. Fascinating story.

Ancient DNA Coded From Early Human, Creating New Mystery
MONTE MORIN – Los Angeles Times

Here is something else you don't see in the corporate media business news. It is the latest in the GMO trend.

China Rejects Fifth US Corn Cargo in a Month, Citing GMO Strain
RT (Russia)

Here is a growing trend you don't really hear much about in the corporate business media, but that should concern all of us considerably. I was leery of this site, but it turned out this is a well-documented report.

Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers [eg Smithfield Foods] Will Enable China To Dominate 1000s Of U.S. Communities
MICHAEL SNYDER – BlackListed News

Whether one calls it Randian, trickle-down, supply side, neoliberal, or austerity it is becoming clearer every day that the Rightist economic theories are utterly discredited and, over the past 30 years, have done incalculable damage to the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Yet these policies are still being pursued by the Republicans in the U.S. House, and touted by Wall Street, which has s! een the greatest transfer of wealth to its coffers in human history. Here is an excellent essay on the subject.

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2013/12/112013/12/11

Jean Lievens: Federico Pistono on Open Source Society collaborative book project

#OSE Open Source Everything

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Open Source Society collaborative book project

Hi, I'm Federico Pistono, author of “Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK” and I’m writing a new book called “Open Source Society”!

This book will be a collection of suggestions that governments, institutions, companies, individuals and communities can use in order to move humanity forward.

You can see the inception and outline of the book at a lecture I recently gave at the University of Life Sciences in Oslo, Norway.

I hope the book will be a compendium of not only great ideas, but will also be a blueprint for a new kind of society, created by the greatest minds on the planet, working together.

That’s where you come in, because I would like YOU to be part of the book, by contributing with your ideas and concrete suggestions.

My question to you is the following:

>> “If you could change three things in the world, what would they be, why, and how do we implement them?”

I’m looking for practical, actionable items, either at the policy level, international agreements, strategies for companies and corporations, or that individuals and communities can put in practice, in less than ten years. Submissions will close on March 1, 2014.

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Jon Rappoport: What Happened to $2.5 Trillion Allegedly Spent Against Poverty? Is Government a Giant Money-Laundering Scheme?

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government

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Is government aid a giant money laundering scheme?

Remember something called the War on Poverty? The Great Society?

President Lyndon Johnson declared it and announced it in 1965. Since then, the federal government and state governments have poured staggering amounts of dollars into the program.

How many dollars? Does anyone know?

In his 1992 book, Paved With Good Intentions, Jared Taylor puts the figure (1965-1992) at $2.5 trillion. So, for the sake of argument, let’s accept that.

Yet, by 1992 (and to an even greater degree since then), poverty had accelerated in America. Had gotten much, much worse.

So the logical question was and is: where did all that money go?

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