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Western Medicine In Trouble: The Death of Informed Consent

A monumental ethical issue is hovering over the entire medical establishment in the United States that threatens its integrity and trust. The human element is being removed from the equation, replaced by computers to give us our options, and legislation to remove our choice. Somewhere in the shuffle, the individual’s informed consent was broken down, lost in the paperwork, and made irrelevant.

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2015/03/082015/03/06

Reference: 2014 Declassified CIA Documents

Government, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

Studies in Intelligence: A Digest of Declassified CIA Documents

For the benefit of researchers, Lawfare has reviewed and digested documents released in September of 2014 by the Central Intelligence Agency. The bulk of the materials hail from the CIA’s in-house intelligence journal, Studies in Intelligence.

We have grouped the documents in rough thematic fashion and, within each theme, by publication date where possible. (Many of the declassified items do not reflect a date or have dates and other information redacted.) Our five broad subject areas are: Intelligence Agency Leadership and Governance; Operations and Counterintelligence; Law and Oversight; Analysis; and Science and Technology. For ease of reference, each entry within each subject is accompanied by a brief summary of the document’s contents.

2015/03/07

Russia Today: 33% of US 16 & Up Not Working

03 Economy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

33% of Americans out of workforce, highest rate since 1978

The number of Americans aged 16 and older not participating in the labor force hit 92,898,000 in February, tying December’s record, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

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2015/03/072015/03/06

CounterPunch: Deep Green Resistance – Confronting Industrialism

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics

If You Can't Clean It Up, Don't Make It

Confronting Industrialism

by DERRICK JENSEN

Q: What do you call someone who puts poison in the subways of Tokyo? A: A terrorist. Q: What do you call someone who puts poison (cyanide) into groundwater? A: A capitalist: CEO of a gold mining corporation. Read full article.

BOOK: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

2015/03/072015/03/06

Marcus Aurelius: Obama Amnesty Plan: Legalize Foreigners, ‘Take Over the Host,’ ‘Push Citizens into the Shadows’

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

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Obama Amnesty Plan: Legalize Foreigners, ‘Take Over the Host,' ‘Push Citizens into the Shadows'

It was supposed to be a phone call for Obama administration ears only. But hear it the radio host did, she says. And what she heard should make your blood run cold — and perhaps your rage hot. Obama’s amnesty plan is to use illegal aliens as “seedlings,” said the federal officials. They will “navigate, not assimilate,” as they “take over the host,” create a “country within a country” and start “pushing the citizens into the shadows.” Welcome to the “fundamental transformation” of America.

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2015/03/062015/03/06

Robert Steele: Electoral Reform Before Supreme Court (One Tiny Piece)

09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Officers Call

Election reform is on the line at the Supreme Court

SUPREME COURT observers focused on the Affordable Care Act case this week. But the justices heard arguments Monday in another case with potentially major implications for the country’s proper functioning: a dispute over whether voters can break the self-serving system in which state politicians manipulate voting districts to their own and their party’s benefit.

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2015/03/062015/03/06

Chuck Spinney: Iranian Ambassador Itemizes Lies & Misrepresentations by Israel’s Prime Minister

Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace

The author of the below op-ed is the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations. It is worth reading carefully, because this op-ed is well sourced, and Ambassador Khoshroo’s argument with respect to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s penchant for threat inflation can be compared to Gareth Porter’s history of Israel’s gaming to the Iranian threat.

Netanyahu’s Nuclear Deceptions

A Response to Netanyahu From Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N.

By GHOLAMALI KHOSHROO

New York Times (Op-Ed), MARCH 3, 2015