The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We provide free assistance and technical advisement to develop Ceramic Water Filter (CWF) production facilities around the world. These low cost clay water filters allow families to be able to produce their own potable water and has a significant impact on their health.
Tip of the Hat to JZ Liskiewicz
Academic blogging gets your work and research out to a potentially massive audience at very, very low cost and relative amount of effort.
Continue reading “Patrick Dunleavy: Academic Blogging Helps Research”
Foreign aid does not work. In the end, government doesn't know what it's doing.
Throwing good money at bad governments makes poor countries worse off.
Syriza can transform the EU from within – if Europe will let it
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Syriza promises first to achieve a substantial write-off of Greek debt and, second, to lift austerity by aiming for balanced budgets, instead of the surpluses demanded by the troika. It will reconnect families to the electricity network, provide food relief and shelter the homeless. It will take immediate action to reduce unemployment through public programmes. It is committed to lowering the enormous tax burden and to boosting public investment in an effort to accelerate growth.
Here is what the American Surveillance State looks like (publicly) to Europe. This is a German assessment published in one of Europe's leading publications. I confess I don't like my country being thought of in this way.
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security
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Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Surveillance State — Good, Bad, Ugly”
A military with poor morale is a military that fights poorly.
The key factor is senior leadership that has not kept faith with its troops. The rest of the force that doesn’t live within the Washington, D.C., beltway feels that it is being ridden hard and put back wet so that the generals and admirals can claim success before civilian leaders in Congress and the White House. They have come to believe that they are expendable.
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: The Real Reason For The Poor State Of Military Morale”
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.
