The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Bin Laden is not believed by honest experts to have had anything to do with 9/11, which was a very well-funded state terrorism plot that probably had the full complicity of Dick Cheney. The 9/11 Commission, like the Warren Commission, was an official cover-up.
If there was any doubt our government is structured to support the corporate oligarchy, and not the citizens of the U.S. this should dispel it.
These seven corporations make billions in profit — and have tax rate of negative 2.5 percent
United States is No Longer Perceived to Be ‘the land of the free’
Banking culture breeds dishonesty, scientific study finds
Transparify Will Begin Re-Rating All Think Tanks In December
Phi Beta Iota: A useful step. However, at least as critical is evaluating the sources and methods used or not used by “think tanks.” Most — such as the Brookings Institute — do not use citation analytics and do not do substantive foreign language research. “Multidisciplinary” is not a term in vogue among these largely pedestrian entities. Holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering are foreign concepts to all of them.
I focus on the idea of open source transperancy in the big corporate food/consumer health arena. It serves as a friendly nudge/warning to large corporations that open sourcing will overtake their market share unless they flow with the changing times.
Starbucks Plays Middle Of GMO Road; Gets Run Over
Phi Beta Iota: This shines a light on the Grocery Manufacturing Asssocation (GMA) and its role in manipulating public perceptions and fronting for Monsanto and others in obfuscating the truth about processed foods, GMO, and other toxins their Members sell to the public.
Google Free and Clear to Rank Search Results Any Way It Wants
Well, bad news for those who want to force Google to modify the order in which search results appear. If I understand “Court Rules Google Can Arrange Search Results Any Way It Wants,” relevance is what Google wants. Period.
I think we can safely and accurately say that the people of the United States, collectively, while they may care about their own children, or the children of their friends, do not care for children in general. We also have the highest level of food stress with 17 million children going hungry at least part of the year.
Child homelessness in U.S. reaches historic high at 2.5 million
I began writing about what I see as the new American slavery in 2011 (see The New American Slavery). This trend is made up of several parts, prison privatization, all the industries that suckle at the teat of the American Gulag, and the indentured exploitation of prisoners. And it just keeps getting more and more disgusting and blatantly what it is.
California Tells Court It Can’t Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor
If You Want to Know What’s Happened to Our Democracy, Follow the Richest .01 Percent
If you want to know what’s happened to the American economy, follow the money. That will lead you to the richest .01 percent. And if you want to know what’s happened to our democracy, follow the richest .01 percent. They’ll lead you to the politicians who have been selling our democracy.
Phi Beta Iota: Concentrated wealth is expensive at multiple levels, but particularly so in relation to externalized diseconomies associated with poverty, disease, and environmental degradation. Concentrated wealth is rooted in dishonesty among the few (particularly the two-party political tyranny) combined with ignorance and apathy among the many. There is a simple solution: a mass uprising with a non-violent strike demanding Electoral Reform (all eleven points).
See Also:
Electoral Reform @ We the People Reform Coalition
