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SchwartzReports: No One Trusts the Federal Governments or Corporations — and Growing Public Movement to Divest from Fossil Fuels and Refuse GMOs

Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement
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schwartz reportMore on the the growing Great Schism Trend. Much of this shift in attitude results from the growing disaffection people feel about the Federal government. There is a price to no one ever being held accountable for the financial meltdown, or the constant reminders of the government's corruption, coupled with the increasing awareness of the government's intrusion into ordinary people's lives.!

Beliefs About Sandy Hook Cover-up, Coming Revolution Underlie Divide on Gun Control
DAN CASSINO and KRISTA JENKINS – Fairleigh Dickinson University

If this had appeared in a lesser publication, or been written by a less accomplished investigative reporter, I would have dismissed it as conspiracy nonsense. But I spent time this afternoon backchecking. It all holds up. Once again all of this arises because of the corruption of the regulatory mechanisms set up to protect the integrity of the financial system.

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
MATT TAIBBI – Rolling Stone

Here is some good news. People are beginning to awaken to the research about GMOs.

Pressure Mounts to Remove GMOs From Infant Formula
Common Dreams/The Cornucopia Institute

Here is some good news, about a shift going on in the environmental movement. It offers some hope.

The Giants of the Green World That Profit From the Planet's Destruction
NAOMI KLEIN – The Guardian (U.K.)

 

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NIGHTWATCH & Et Al: Syria Round-Up

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Peace Intelligence
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January - July Wind Direction - Click on Image to Enlarge
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NIGHTWATCH

Israel-Syria-Hezbollah: US news media citing unidentified US officials reported that the Israeli Air Force executed a ground attack at a weapons warehouse in Syria. Israeli officials declined to comment but Lebanese press reported low flying Israeli combat aircraft flew over Nabatiye Governate in south Lebanon on Friday morning.

Comment: The description of the attack resembles the Israeli air operation in January which prevented Syria from providing advanced weapons to Hezbollah. The timing, days after Hezbollah announced it was fighting in support of the Syrian government, suggests the action was related to that announcement.

What was missing from the Hezbollah announcement this week is what price Hezbollah required from Syria for its overt support. Supplies of modern weapons or delivery systems from Syria might have been an incentive for an open statement of support.

What is certain is that Israel would act promptly to try to prevent any strengthening of Hezbollah by Syria, but has shown no interest in siding with the belligerents in Syria.

Others

Israel Launches Airstrike Into Syria, U.S. Officials Say

United States believes Israel conducted airstrike in Syria, CNN reports

Israel bombs missile shipment in Syria – reports

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John Maguire: YouTube (9:23) Arguments for the Elimination of Television

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John Maguire

Jerry Mander, author of “In the Absence of the Sacred” and “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”, describes the drawbacks of television. An excerpt from the extended interviews of What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire. A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.

Most thinking people already realize the basic truthĀ TV = Bad. However, Mander spells it in a way that will likely reinvigorate your ire for the way we are perpetually kept dumbed down, addicted, and isolated from both ourselves and others/nature.

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Michael Ostrolenk: Letter to President Obama on Guantanamo Prisoners

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As sent.Ā  Actual document:Ā  2013-05-03 Letter to Obama on Releasing Guantanamo Prisoners

National Commission on Intelligence Misuse to Justify War
722 12th Street, N.W., 4th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
bruce@intelcommission.org
Phone: 703-963-4968

May 3, 2013

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Re: Releasing the Innocent Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

Dear Mr. President:

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Berto Jongman: Kurzweil on Global Networks Must be Redesigned

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Missing from all this is the OSC/M4IS2 solution.

Global networks must be redesigned

May 2, 2013

Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disasters. For example, todayā€™s quick spreading of emerging epidemics is largely a result of global air traffic, with serious impacts on global health, social welfare, and economic systems.

In a Nature paper on globally networked risks, ETH ZĆ¼rich Prof. Dr.Ā DirkĀ Helbing, Chair of Sociology, illustrates how cascade effects and complex dynamics amplify the vulnerability of networked systems. For example, just a few long-distance connections can largely decrease our ability to mitigate the threats posed by global pandemics.

Initially beneficial trends, such as globalization, increasing network densities, higher complexity, and an acceleration of institutional decision processes may ultimately push man-made or human-influenced systems towards systemic instability, Helbing finds. Systemic instability refers to a system that will get out of control sooner or later, even if everybody involved is well skilled, highly motivated and behaving properly. Crowd disasters are shocking examples illustrating that many deaths may occur even when everybody tries hard not to hurt anyone.

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Click on Image to Enlarge – Risks Interconnection Map 2011 illustrating systemic interdependencies in the hyper-connected world we are living in (credit: World Economic Forum)

Our intuition of systemic risks is misleading

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Berto Jongman: Human Security as Paradigm for Hybrid Governance

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Human Security — A New Response to Complex Threats

Written by Sadako Ogata

Today, millions of people face extreme insecurity as a result of conflicts and economic crises — not only in acute conflicts like Syria but also in many lower-profile crises. To be sure, great strides have been made since the start of this century, notably in reducing global poverty, due in large part to the concerted action and targeted goals to be achieved by 2015 that were set in motion at the landmark 2000 UN Millennium Summit. However, there is no denying that, in too many parts of our world, the international community fails to protect people whose lives are dangerously at risk.

This calls upon us to mount a new response to meeting human needs, one that recognizes the complex nature of the problems now before us. Such a response exists in the concept of human security, which was advanced a decade ago with the release of the findings of the UN Commission on Human Security, which I co-chaired with Amartya Sen.

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