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Jean Lievins: (YouTube 9:30) The Human Cost of Your iPhone – Should SHOCK You

Who Pays the Price? The Human Cost of Electronics This short documentary reveals the hazards of the electronics industry in China profiling workers poisoned by chemicals and their struggle for compensation. Thousands of young people in China enter export factories to make the West’s favorite electronic gadgets, only to find they have contracted occupational diseases …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google Trends Fail Badly — Algorithms Get Lost and Are No Substitute for Humans with Intelligence and Integrity

Google Flu Trends: How Algorithms Get Lost March 15, 2014 Run a query for Google Flu Trends on Google. The results point to the Google Flu Trends Web site at http://bit.ly/1ny9j58. The graphs and charts seem authoritative. I find the colors and legends difficult to figure out, but Google knows best. Or does it? A …

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David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs

War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …

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Berto Jongman: John McAfee Vows to Make Internet “Impossible to Hack” + Internet/Human Intelligence Meta-RECAP [Bottom Line Up Front: Internet without Intelligence and Integrity is Noise]

John McAfee vows to make Internet ‘impossible to hack’ By Dan Nakaso dnakaso@mercurynews.com >Posted:   09/24/2013 05:38:37 PM PDT | Updated:   a day ago SAN JOSE — Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and …

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Berto Jongman: Humans, Data, & Spies — What Manner, What Value, Integrity?

Data, meet spies: The unfinished state of Web crypto Many large Web companies have failed to adopt a decades-old encryption technology to safeguard confidential user communications. Google is a rare exception, and Facebook is about to follow suit. Declan McCullagh June 26, 2013 Revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance abilities have highlighted shortcomings in …

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Jean Lievens: Le management de l’intelligence collective (vers une nouvelle gouvernance) – Managing Collective Intelligence (Toward a New Corporate Governance) — Human 2X Tech, 9 Graphics

Managing collective intelligence – Toward a New Corporate Governance by Olivier Zara In a production economy, value creation depends on land, labor and capital. In a knowledge economy, value creation depends mainly on the ideas and innovations to be found in people’s heads. Those ideas cannot be forcibly extracted. All one can do is mobilize …

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SchwartzReport: China Breeding “Enhanced” People [While Exporting Surplus Males], Stupid Humans a Western Cancer, Willful Ignorance of the US Progressives–Only the Quakers Get It Right

This is the latest in the Homo Superiorus Trend. I predict this is going to become a major issue very quickly. Chinese Eugenics Factory Collects ‘Genius” DNA To Breed ‘Enhanced” People JURRIAAN MAESSEN – Blacklisted News Here is why movements like the Tea Baggers, the modern version of the Know Nothings who plagued America in …

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