The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The tide turns….what is lacking is an easy to use persistent citation protocol for both self-publishing, and peer review before or after or both.
Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process
What they don't tell us is that Coca Cola is pulling the water from aquifers at no cost to Coca Cola — but cost beyond measure to future generations whose aquifers will be filled with salt water.
Beekeepers having to sue the EPA. This report gives us further evidence, if such were needed, that corporate profits, and the corruption of our government, trumps all other considerations, including the destruction of the key to successful agriculture — the bees — upon which the wellbeing of all humanity depends.
EPA Sued Over Bees
JULIAN HATTEM – The Hill
Further evidence of the growing coarseness of American culture. It amazes me how our society's absolute commitment to placing profit above all other considerations is destroying the quality of people's lives, and that it is happening almost without a whimper. It is Biblical — all we lack is the golden calf.
Study: America’s Culture Economy Is Doomed
TOM JACOBS – Salon
The melting of polar ice is going to have massive and egregious effects on our lives. So get prepared, because nothing is going to be done to effectively remediate this process.
Study Links Arctic Melting, Extreme Weather
Voice of America
This, more than any story I have read in years, shows the absolute corruption and immorality of American healthcare. The ACA does very little to change this. It is simply not possible to have a genuine healthcare system when profit is more important tha! n health. Until we acknowledge that America will always be second class when it comes to the wellness of its people.
An Effective Eye Drug Is Available for $50. But Many Doctors Choose a $2,000 Alternative
PETER WHORISKEY and DAN KEATING – The Washington Post
The New Social Leadership – Moving from Fear to Freedom
Christine Comaford
Forbes, 28 October 2012
When driven by fear, human beings generally go to one of three places:
1) They get stuck.
2) They solve problems that don’t exist.
3) They focus on the wrong problem—which is low leverage and doesn’t deliver the result they want.
In the Industrial Revolution, scientific management principles emerged to cope with the need to produce more, better, faster. And it worked.
But not anymore.
This “Old School” management style is synonymous with what many people think is leadership. This model operates on fear—the team member must perform or we’ll remove their ability to pay their mortgage, kids’ educational expenses, etc. Fear pushes people to take action.
In the Information Age, some of these principles and practices are still sound–hey, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater–but some feel as obsolete as the Ford Edsel they were designed to produce. I have noticed that leaders who are able to grow their organizations rapidly in the face of accelerating technological and societal change—the people who create and foster innovation—exhibit certain characteristics. I call these characteristics “SmartTribe Accelerators.”
The more we learn about bees the more we discover how important these little creatures are to our well-being.
Benefit of Bees Even Bigger Than Thought: Food Study
Global Post/Agence France-Presse
One of my readers in Greece, an economist, now working in a drug store since his university department was closed wrote to tell me that the rise of the Rightist Golden Dawn movement in Greece can be directly attributed to the government's austerity policies imposed upon Greece by their German lenders. That made me think about the rise of Rightist militia movements as well as! the tea baggers here in the U.S.
Listen Up, Budget Cutters. Austerity Can Lead to Blood on the Streets, Even in America
LYNN STUART PARRAMORE – AlterNet (U.S.)
Here is a report on the current status of the declining middle class. You may be one of those mentioned in this report.
Most American Families Now Make Less Than $60,000 Per Year
MELISSA S. KEARNEY AND BENJAMIN H. HARRIS , Director and Policy Director, The Hamilton Project – Brookings Institute
This is what is coming as long as ignorant fearful voters put into office the kind of corrupt ignorant officials such as now fill our Congress.
Pension Theft: Class War Goes to the Next Stage
DEAN BAKER – Truthout
These are the people who are destroying the American democracy, aided by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and the decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act. Basically it is now possible for a small group of rich sociopaths to commandeer the U.S. government at the Federal and state level. Click through to see photocopies of actual documents.
State Conservative Groups Plan US-wide Assault on Education, Health and Tax
ED PILKINGTON and SUZANNE GOLDENBERG – The Guardian (U.K.)
Here is a fascinating report on new research being done at Stonehenge.
Click through to see the pictures, video, and to actually hear the sounds the stones make
Stonehenge ‘was a prehistoric centre for rock music': Stones sound like bells, drums, and gongs when played
SARAH GRIFFITHS and AMANDA WILLIAMS – The Mail (U.K.)
I have a number of Millennials who are regular SR readers, and one of them sent me this, explaining that both he and his girl friend had $50,000 worth of debt between them, and still had graduate work to go. I find it hard to even conceive of what that must be like to get your degree face a dead job market and have $6-700 a month payments stretching out as far as the eye can see. This is just another way we are failing our children, and cutting the legs off the country's future.
Student Loan Debt More Crippling Than Ever
SAMANTHA STAINBURN – Salon/Global Post
I have been writing about these controversies for some time, and recognize this essay as a good compilation of the issues.
What Statins, Trans Fats, and GMOs Tell Us About Scientific Controversies
ALISON ROSE LEVY – The Huffington Post
Climate Summit Trap: Capitalism's March toward Global Collapse
