The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The gray color was selected as the only color not associated with armed force per se. Some services use this color for medical, weather, or other support personnel.
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Here is a very fast overview of how Wall Street and Organized Crime profit “legally” and without regard to the public interest. Click on logo itself.
Wall Street: bribe Congress to pass deregulation and ensure that Goldman Sachs remains in control of the US Treasruy regardless of who is President. Use information asymmetries and data pathologies to play the individual investor for the fool that they are, believing in what Michael Lewis called “Liar's Poker” in his 1980'sbook. Ride Initial Public Officerings (IPO) by manipulating the starting price, riding the hike, and then passing all the inflated stocks and the attendant risk to the individual investor. It's called “exploding the client”
The NYT article today addresses one means by which Goldman Sachs in particular has profited at taxpayer expense. On the organized crime side, as one of the Mafia chiefs said on his way back to Italy after serving a long prison sentence, “Nothing happens without both the Vatican and the politicians (local to national) general approval.” (as recollected). Moises Naim in his book ILLICIT (see our review) estimates that organized crime is $2 trillion a year “business” on top of the $7 trillion a year “legal” business. Someone else has calculated that bribes to government officials world-wide total roughly $1 trillion a year, which suggests a very equitable split between those who steal and those who allow the stealing in return for bribes to look the other way and NOT protect the public interest.
The Journal of Public Intelligence is committed to helping the public create public intelligence in the public interest. While the New York Times has been helpful in providing the above story, it is two decades too late. they knew this long ago, but as with most stories (such as informed opinions against going to war against Iraq) the management of the New York Times repressed stories. They only “break” stories now after they come out on the Internet–hence, public intelligence must press for more “citizen journalism” and more collective intelligence applied to all activities affecting the commonwealth of publics. See True Cost Meme under the Honour Society.
The “true cost” meme as established by Paul Hawken and other leaders in ecological economics (such as Herman Daly) is an analytic concept that is embraced by Phi Beta Iota and should be clearly understood by all who wish to associate with or claim affiliation with Phi Beta Iota.
Exxon, to take one example, did not “earn” $40 billion in profits in 2007. It externalized $12 in costs for every $3 gallon of gasoline it sold in the USA (and equivalent amounts everywhere else). In other words, Exxon's leadership oversaw the theft of $40 billion in just one year of Earth resources and services, including clean air and water, stealing this money from the public commonwealth and future generations. Since changes to the Earth that used to take 10,000 years now take three years, the public urgently needs to achieve a World Brain and EarthGameTM so as to “get a grip” on “true costs” at every level in every clime and place.
War is a form of theft as well–its steals blood, treasure, and spirit from the commonwealth of nations, while enriching the few at the expense of the money. General Smedley Butler, in his time the most decorated Marine in hitory, has denounced the use of the military as “enforcers” for banks that make bad investments and corporations that aspire to loot emerging communities that lack the ability to resist organized predators. Here also public intelligence in the public interst is the ethical, legal, non-violent means of confronting, resisting, and ultimately vanquishing those who seek to destroy and deprive.
Phi Beta Iota explicitly and passionately subscribes to the principles of non-violence as so ably represented by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela, among others. Public intelligence in the public interest is how we ethically, legally, and peacefully achieve “truth & reconciliation” among all individuals, groups, and organizations.
The related memes of “biomimicry,” “green to gold,” “cradle to cradle,” “zero waste,” and “sustainable design” are helpful in crafting solutions, but the immediate and continuing public intelligence challenge–the challenge that Phi Beta Iota and its affiliated human minds strives to address–is the credible, documented, replicable calculation of the “true cost” of each and every product and service on the planet.
Examples of “true cost” include, for a designer cotton blouse with high-tech color designs:
Related:
http://true-cost.re-configure.org
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