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2013/10/132013/10/13

Chuck Spinney: How Contemporary War “Reporting” Messes Up Your OODA Loops

The attached article is a very important and informative essay. Patrick Cockurn describes how the media echo chamber warps the Orientation* of the public, as well as that of a government, to unfolding events in the so-called global war on terror that triggered by 9-11 and the continuously metastasizing instabilities the GWOT is unleashing. I regard …

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2013/10/04

Berto Jongman: Environmental Crimes and Insecurity

Environmental crimes increasingly linked to violence, insecurity NEW YORK, 3 October 2013 (IRIN) – Organized environmental crime is known to pose a multi-layered threat to human security, yet it has long been treated as a low priority by law enforcers, seen as a fluffy “green” issue that belongs in the domain of environmentalists. But due …

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2013/10/01

Eagle: Work at Risk from Water – Top Ten Cities Threatened with Disaster + Future of Water Overview Links

Under Water Storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis — with more than half the world’s population now concentrated in cities, the economic threat of natural disasters in metropolitan areas looms ever larger. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan set a new standard for disaster with almost 20,000 people killed and a record $300 billion in economic …

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2013/09/19

Graphic: Afghanistan Water Equals Peace

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2013/09/112013/09/11

Michael T. Klare: World Energy in 20140

Published on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 by TomDispatch.com Our Fossil-Fueled Future: World Energy in 2040 by Michael T. Klare What sort of fabulous new energy systems will the world possess in 2040? Which fuels will supply the bulk of our energy needs? And how will that change the global energy equation, international politics, and the …

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2013/09/072013/09/07

Bruce Schneier: On Risk – And Death of Civilization

Our Newfound Fear of Risk We’re afraid of risk. It’s a normal part of life, but we’re increasingly unwilling to accept it at any level. So we turn to technology to protect us. The problem is that technological security measures aren’t free. They cost money, of course, but they cost other things as well. They …

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2013/09/06

SchwartzReport: Fallujah as Hiroshima, Great Lakes Shrinking

As we stand poised to get into yet another war in the Islamic world, this cautionary tale seems very apposite. Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah ‘Worse Than Hiroshima‘ PATRICK COCKBURN – The Independent (UK) Climate change does not just affect the oceans, as this story on the Great Lakes makes clear. This vast …

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