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Review: Red Sparrow (Espionage Fiction)

6 Star Top 10%, Intelligence (Government/Secret)
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Jason Matthews

6 Stars Best New Espionage Everything

I have reviewed over 300 books on intelligence, almost all of them non-fiction. Apart from the George Smiley series by John Le Carre the only other fiction book I can think of that garnered my respect was Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry.

This book, by a former SE Division (Soviet Division) Operations Officer also known as a Case Officer (C/O) is SENSATIONAL.  I bought it at the airport when my planned reading for the return flight turned out to be junk (Life After Google).

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Yoda: European Science-Policy Investment Recap

#OSE Open Source Everything, Academia, Commerce, Government, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Research resources
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Europe’s influential science-policy chief on his successes and disappointments

Robert-Jan Smits, the European Union’s departing director-general of research, sets out his parting thoughts.

I am sorry that I couldn’t find a way to get all member states to invest more in science.

I also regret not having been able to embed science and innovation in EU agricultural policy, which is very conservative and hard to penetrate.

…we plan a European Innovation Council to support highly innovative companies, particularly start-ups.

I managed to persuade Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, to classify R&D as investment rather than expenditure. This was a small but important psychological breakthrough that helped change mindsets.

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Field McConnell: 22 Event History of Mostly Boeing Contrived Crashes (Uninterruptible Autopilot for Remote Hijacking)

07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government
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Field McConnell delivered a most extraordinary lecture at J. B. Well's conference Operation Classified recently. Click below for the full briefing online.

ONLINE BRIEFING (43 Slides)

Video (1:51:14) Below the Fold.

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Mongoose: How the Left and Leftist Non-Profits Coach Illegal Aliens to Game the System

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From an Alert Reader.

In the James O'Keefe undercover style, we see how NGOs and attorneys retained by the UN and NGOs teach illegals to cry, throw up, moan, become sick and “play the part” in order to be admitted in the US.  They teach what works.  Otherwise, they wouldn't.

Those NGOs do not pay taxes, fraudulent charity obliges.  We, Americans and Europeans do, and we end up supporting that enormous scam in which everybody gets rich but the taxpayers.

Video and personal text of testimony from border observer below the fold.

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SPECIAL: Why Oracle Is Doomed….

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
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Robert David STEELE Vivas

I really like Larry Ellison for varied reasons including his off-shore sailing and his cash flow, but he now epitomizes the previously successful enterprise that is doomed (along with Google, Microsoft, and IBM, among many others).

Below the fold are three items; first a brief commentary from Stephen E. Arnold, one of the “three amigos” (the other is William Binney) who would have liked to help Oracle; second, a coder talking about Oracle reality — a bog of legacy code; and third, an extract on NoSQL versus SQL.

Amazon is doomed as well, but first they will become a trillion dollar company and screw over hundreds of millions of people. I give them ten more years.

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Review: Skin in the Game – Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

6 Star Top 10%, America (Founders, Current Situation), Best Practices in Management, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Change & Innovation, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Culture, Research, Economics, Intelligence (Commercial), Misinformation & Propaganda, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6 Star – Skin in the Game = Ethics = Sustainable

By the author Black Swan and Anti-Fragility, among many other works, this book is a simplified overview — a capstone work — and the easiest to read.

Skin in the Game is defined by the author as symmetry of risk and reward — in other words, you don't get to externalize losses to others while reaping the rewards without any personal risk.

That pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with banking, commerce, government, religions, and universities.

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Mongoose: Mind Control Briefed to World Economic Forum

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
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The World Economic Forum Talks About “Mind Control Using Sound Waves”

The World Economic Forum – one of the most powerful elite organizations in the world – recently discussed the emergence of remote mind control technology. And it admits that it could be used to turn humans into mind-controlled slaves.

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