FUTURISM UPDATE (December 16, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn
Forbes- Edward Snowden and the Downside to the Industrial Internet of Things https://lnkd.in/eGp_3qr
REUTERS: Wall Street dips in volatile trade; oil prices fall further https://lnkd.in/ejZ9XyY
REUTERS: Google faces $18 million fine for web privacy violations: Dutch watchdog https://lnkd.in/e7sBr8h
Seeking Alpha- Will The Plunge In Oil Crash Markets? http://seekingalpha.com/article/2756495-will-the-plunge-in-oil-crash-markets
CBCNEWS: Oil slips below $56 US after OPEC says it’s waiting on market. Canadian dollar trading at 85 cents US as crude markets continue rout https://lnkd.in/etu7BJQ
FINANCIAL TIMES: Oil price fall threatens $1tn of projects http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b3d67518-845f-11e4-bae9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3M03HtF6K
New York Times- Wall St. Sinks as Oil Resumes Its Slide http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/business/daily-stock-market-activity.html?_r=0
Washington Post- Australia’s jihadist problem is much bigger than Sydney’s hostage crisis https://lnkd.in/eRbVvy7
New York Daily News- Top 7 jobs robots can potentially replace in following years https://lnkd.in/ePM4J_r
The Huffington Post UK : Gorbachev Warns That America And Russia Are Preparing For ‘Many Years Of Confrontation’. “With such emotions running so high, as we have now, we may not survive through these years. Somebody may just lose control of himself. We must do our best to overturn this tendency.” https://lnkd.in/eBXf2MF
POPULAR SCIENCE: NASA ENGINEERS PROPOSE COMBINING A RAIL GUN AND A SCRAMJET TO FIRE SPACECRAFT INTO ORBIT https://lnkd.in/ePr5hsk
JAPANESE GLOBAL CORPORATIONS ARE (a) RISK ADVERSE AND (b) RISK-MANAGEMENT AVERSE. Wired- Sony Hackers Threaten to Release a Huge ‘Christmas Gift’ of Secrets https://lnkd.in/ewaB5ET
IGNORAMUSES THINK THIS CANNOT HAPPEN SOON. The Guardian- Fears for Russian rouble as plunging oil price dents markets. Investors are concerned that the freefalling oil price and its effects on energy-dependent Moscow will further harm the world economy https://lnkd.in/ex6gi7G
FINANCIAL TIMES: Scandinavians warn Russia after air near-miss https://lnkd.in/e2XXSQ5
Fox News- Threat forces evacuation of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters https://lnkd.in/e7j8U8N
Wall Street Journal- Google Shopping to Counter Amazon. Google Inc. plans to push deeper into online commerce by enhancing its Google Shopping service with features that more directly challenge Amazon.com Inc. https://lnkd.in/ensWE57
Telegraph.co.uk- How the Lima climate change talks failed. Lima has underscored what we already knew: that the official negotiators are just not capable of cracking the issues on the table https://lnkd.in/eT4QXZr
PHYS ORG: Switching to vehicles powered by electricity from renewables could save lives https://lnkd.in/eRu23cC
WHY RELATIONS OF THE WEST WITH GERMANY ARE SO DEFUSED? DER SPIEGEL: NSA Spying Scandal: SPIEGEL Stands Behind Merkel Cell Phone Spying Report https://lnkd.in/e2phbpC
The National Interest Online (blog)- India’s ‘Annihilator of Enemies’ Submarine Begins Sea Trials https://lnkd.in/eNvJAKG
ASK SONY! — JAPANESE GLOBAL CORPORATION’S ABJECT RISK AVERSION AND OUTRIGHT REJECTION TO BEST-IN-CLASS AMERICAN-LIKE RISK MANAGEMENT AS THEY BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY THING IMPORTANT IS THE “…ASSEMBLY LINE…” AND THE “…WORK SHOP…” BENCH, OVER-FOCUSED ON THE IGNORANT CERTAINTY THAT THE IN-HOUSE OPERATIONALS FACADES WILL NOT GET EXTERNAL THREATS, EXTERNAL THREATS THAT DESTROY EVERY CANONICAL MILESTONE(S) ACHIEVED BY KAISEN OR TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM (TPS).
Washington Post- As Ukraine truce holds, Russia vows economic pain https://lnkd.in/echway7
BBC News- Denmark challenges Russia and Canada over North Pole http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30481309
BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI
White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)
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