The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Here is the latest on the American Gulag Trend. This is one of the reasons we can no longer claim the moral highground, and every nation in the village of humanity knows this about us. Click on the line at the very beginning and it will take you to an interactive map of the U.S., where you can get the incarceration number for your county. It is quite revealing.
The U.S. has more jails than colleges. Here’s a map of where those prisoners live.
Joseph Stiglitz: Thomas Piketty gets income inequality wrong
The famed economist reveals the real reason the rich are getting richer — and what it means for the rest of us
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: Joseph Stiglitz on Income Inequality”
To paraphrase a line from a famous American novel, “The rich are different from you and me. They are practicing pederasts.”
That's what I think of in reading the articles below of the pederast scandal involving billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the very rich and powerful people who may have used his pedo pimping services, as seen in the articles below, may blow over (especially if Epstein is “suicided”) or expanded if more salacious details emerge. Too soon to say, but one could hope it will expand.
As we begin 2015 the need for citizen involvement in support of wellness at every level from the individual to the planetary has never been greater. The system of democracy itself is at risk throughout the world. This essay makes the case very well. No one is going to save us but we ourselves.
Thomas J. Scott, TruthOut, 1 Jan 15
Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Democracy and Its Discontents”
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Tip of the Hat to JZ Liskiewicz
I have been thinking about this story all day. If one out of two babies born in the U.S. will be autistic by 2025, if the present trend continues, what kind of world can that be? In 2013 the number of live births in the U.S. was 3,952,840. as described this would mean 1,976,420 autistic children. Within a generation the care of these millions would consume the nation. This is completely insane. Say the estimate is 50% off. It would still be 19,764,200 in 20 years. All of this damage in the service of profit.
Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT
Phi Beta Iota: We include diseases spread by industrial mal-practice in the “infectious” disease category ranked as high-level threat to humanity number two. Our ignorant corrupt government is literally murdering our public.
The Tragedy of the American Military
The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.
