SchwartzReport: Joseph Stiglitz on Corporate Tax Dodging

It’s perfectly clear that the cuddling of the uber-rich must stop. Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz makes the point as well as anyone could. Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let’s Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers BILL MOYERS – Moyers & Company A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz for the Roosevelt Institute suggests that paying …

Howard Rheingold: Hacking RSS to Reduce Information Overload with Filtering Tools

Since Google ditched Google Reader, RSS has receded from many people’s awareness. Yet RSS and versatile RSS readers such as NetVibes continue to exist, and if you want to learn information skills to support attention skills, you can do no better than Dawn Foster, who can tell you simply and step-by-step how to arrange for …

Rickard Falkvinge: European Pirate Party Promotions & Prospects

The Pirate Bay Running Promos For European Pirate Parties In Election Week Pirate Parties:  In a last-minute visibility boost, The Pirate Bay is providing front-page exposure to the European Pirate Parties in this European Election. Offline-borns would tend to scoff at this; however, the net generation understands that this is an enormous amount of exposure, …

Michel Bauwens: Transitioning to a Commons-Based Society

Transitioning to a Commons-Based Society Background on the FLOK Project Michel Bauwens: The National Plan of Ecuador recognizes and stresses that the global transformation towards knowledge-based societies and economies requires a new form for the creation and distribution of value in society. The National Plan’s central concept is the achievement of ‘Buen Vivir’ (Sumak Kawsay) …

Jon Rappoport: The Next US False Flag? – Bio-Terror Using Toxic Chemical That Kills and Then Dissipates?

How they would stage a bioterror event There are future scenarios which, with enough exposure before they happen, can be stopped, or at least analyzed correctly when they occur. A staged bioterror event is one of those. The primary fact is: no matter what kind of germ you’re talking about or where it came from, …

Berto Jongman: Washington spends £200m creating AFRICOM intelligence hub in Britain

Washington spends £200m creating AFRICOM intelligence hub in Britain RAF Croughton, near Milton Keynes, is to have 1,250 staff and will cover US operations in Africa Washington is to spend almost £200m to turn one of its British military bases – already implicated in mass surveillance and drone strikes – into one of its largest …

Steven Aftergood: Army Views Emerging Intelligence Technologies – Killer Quotes!

ARMY VIEWS EMERGING INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES “Emerging Intelligence Technologies” is the theme of the latest issue of the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin (MIPB), January-March 2014. “Rapid technology developments in response to urgent wartime requirements have brought the intelligence community (IC) some tremendous new capabilities. Advancement in the areas of biometrics, battlefield forensics, miniaturization, SIGINT …