Berto Jongman: The Costs of War — Human Costs, Economic Costss, Social + Political Costs with Alternatives and Recommendations

Over 350,000 Killed by Violence, $4.4 Trillion Spent and Obligated The wars begun in 2001 have been tremendously painful for millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, and the United States, and economically costly as well. Each additional month and year of war adds to that toll. Moreover, the human costs of these conflicts will …

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 …

Inside the iPhone Maker, the Man Who Makes Your iPhone & the Human Costs

The Man Who Makes Your iPhone September 9, 2010 By Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan Foxconn founder Terry Gou might be regarded as Henry Ford reincarnated if only a dozen of his workers hadn’t killed themselves this year. An exclusive look inside a postmodern industrial empire.  On a crushingly hot mid-August day at Foxconn’s Longhua …

Owl: The Transgender-Transhuman — Genocide of Humanity the True Cost of Transgender – Transhuman Loss of All Values for Profit

This is vastly worse than the Great Depression contrived by the banks with the complicity of the US President.  This is about genocide of humanity for profit. Transgender Industry Only the First Phase of & Prelude to Transhumanism Industry The transgenderism industry – the drugs, the clinics, the specialized MDs, hospitals, surgeries – focused on …

Robert Steele: Augmented Intelligence with Human-Machine Integrity – Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE)

Augmented Intelligence with Human-Machine Integrity: Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) UPDATE: PDF (26 Pages): Chapter Steele on Augmented Intelligence as Published Full Text of Author’s Final Draft (Pre-Editing) Below the Fold

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 …