The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Why Governments Declare a Homeless State of Emergency
Three cities, one county and a state have suspended laws that hamper their ability to address homelessness. But why now and what does it mean?
Is it possible for technology and a handmade, bespoke approach to coexist? These innovators are doing just that.
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Tiny Colorado town turns to cannabis
Developers are poised to break ground on a project that could make a tiny southern Colorado town one of the nation's largest producers of legal marijuana. The town of Walsenburg this month formally closed a $1.33 million deal with a developer to build a 332-acre campus for cannabis growing, processing and distribution, with the marijuana to be trucked 160 miles north to consumers in metro Denver.
For nearly 15 years Jim B. Tucker, associate psychiatry professor at the UVA Medical Center's Division of Perceptual Studies, has been investigating claims made by children, usually between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, who say they've had past lives.The children are sometimes able to provide enough detail about those lives that their stories can be traced back to an actual person—rarely famous and often entirely unknown to the family—who died years before.
Muhammad Yunus on How to Change the World: Do the Reverse
Everything we have done is the reverse of conventional. They go to the city, we go to the village. They go to men, we go to women. They say people should come to the bank, we say the bank should go to the people. They say you need to be job seekers, we say job creators. They say business is about maximizing profit, we say forget about profit, all we want to do is solve problems.
Deadly Interactions
EXTRACT: There are two significant roadblocks [to defeating ISIS]. The first is the Saudi government, which is pouring billions of dollars around the world into a campaign promoting its own Salafist approach to Islam. This has produced thousands of determined Salafist youth, the finest candidates for ISIS recruiters. The second roadblock is the political turmoil in the region, which can be blamed at least in part on the support the West has offered undemocratic leaders in the Middle East, under whose cruel and unjust rule Muslim people have suffered for decades. Terrorist organizations point out this “hypocrisy” and use it to persuade new recruits to embrace their violent regimes. PDF (9 Pages): Deadly_Interactions_ISIS_Turkey_Syria
Syrians who join IS are rewarded with salaried jobs which for young men translates into the ability to marry and for young women the money allows them to save their families from literal starvation. Foreign fighters are receiving additional rewards: wives, sexual slaves, and sometimes homes and cars. Daily life was punctuated by brutal practices – including floggings, torture and beheadings. Defections were the result of exposure to extreme brutality, disgust over the slave trade, observations of deep hypocrisy–a total mismatch between the words and deeds of IS. Charges of corruption and complaints about battlefield decisions that produced unnecessary deaths in their own ranks were also causes of disillusionment . Our informants all had come to hate IS and warn others not to join what they gradually came to see as a totally disappointing, ruthless and un-Islamic organization.
