The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One City Tried Something Radical to Stop Gun Violence. This Report Suggests It’s Working. From 45 homicides to 11 in seven years. Tim Murphy, Mother Jones EXTRACT Four times a year, the program’s street team sifts through police records and its own intelligence to determine, with actuarial detachment, the 50 people in Richmond most likely …
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Citing Health Risks, Cuomo Bans Fracking in New York State (NYT) Health Department Report on Fracking in New York State (Report) New York State Just Banned Fracking (Mother Jones) Phi Beta Iota: The media coverage of this historic decision has been mediocre. Everyone has missed two really big deals. First, the NY ban stems from …
This Man Wrote Hundreds of Letters Warning Politicians Not to Lie. It Worked. Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explains why fact-checking keeps candidates honest…sometimes. Nyhan hasn’t just been studying the fact-check movement; he was there at its origins. In the early 2000s, he coauthored a site called Spinsanity.com, a nonpartisan fact-checking outlet. It was the beginning …
Why American Apples Just Got Banned in Europe Back in 2008, European Food Safety Authority began pressing the chemical industry to provide safety information on a substance called diphenylamine, or DPA. Widely applied to apples after harvest, DPA prevents “storage scald”—brown spots that “becomes a concern when fruit is stored for several months,” according to …
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Net Neutrality Finally Dies at Ripe Old Age of 45 Kevin Drum Apparently net neutrality is officially dead. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the FCC has given up on finding a legal avenue to enforce equal access and will instead propose rules that explicitly allow broadband suppliers to favor companies that pay them …
Watch the US Drop 2.5 Million Tons of Bombs on Laos Picturing the deadly legacy of America’s secret war in the world’s most bombed-out country Watch short video. Between 1964 and 1973, the United States dropped around 2.5 million tons of bombs on Laos. While the American public was focused on the war in neighboring …
CAN”T TOUCH THIS The wars are winding down. It’s the age of austerity. But nobody messes with the Pentagon budget. Until Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) rode to the rescue this week, Pentagon brass and their allies had been issuing dire warnings about the nation’s military readiness: The armed services were …
