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Tomgram: Anya Schiffrin, Who Knew We Were Living in the Golden Age of Investigative Journalism?

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The mass layoffs of older journalists around the world has had one benefit: there are plenty of experienced hands ready to train the next generation and provide institutional memory at innovative ventures. Some of these oldtimers, who aren’t busy teaching (or taking public relations jobs — but that’s a story for another time), are busy founding and running nonprofits dedicated to doing hard-driving, investigative reporting. These include: 100 Reporters, Global Journalism Investigative Network, Forum for African Investigative Reporters, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Investigative News Network, SCOOP, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. All of these organizations are benefitting from experienced editors and reporters downsized from traditional media outlets and committed to helping the next generation — and learning from them, too.

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John Maguire: Edgar Morin WISE 2013 Special Address YouTube (18:04) 7 Complex Lessons for Education

04 Education, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence

Focus on error and illusion, need to deal with uncertainty. A great deal of error arises from reductionism.

2011 Edgar Morin on YouTube (12:23): Edgar Morin: Seven Complex Lessons in Education

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Owl: CDC Cover-Up, Moral Degeneracy of Media & Government

07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Government

Latest News on CDC Vaccine-Autism Coverup

This is just the beginning. Much more will be emerging on this story in coming weeks and months. Because while the focus will be initially on how this fraud has so harmfully affected Afro-American children, it will inevitably open up questions on how vaccines affect all children and adults, questions which the vaccine industry, their government shills and media cheerleaders do not want to be raised because they know the answers will mean the end of the vaccine industry, not to mention ruin the credibility of the government and media shills. Karma is such a bitch to bastards.

3 major stories below the fold.

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2014/08/28

Jean Lievens: Sharing Industry Insurance Challenges

Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Ethics

How the sharing industry gets insurance

Sharing may sound utopian. But the sharing industry has a dark side and its name is insurance.

“Probably one of the hardest things we had to do in order to start our company was to get the insurance,” says Seth Peterson, co-founder and CEO of AllYouCanArcade.com, an arcade game rental business. Peterson says he had to call more than 100 insurance agents before he found one willing to work with him.

“Eventually what I did was I started to get my insurance license,” he says, “because I thought if no one is going to underwrite this, I’ll underwrite this myself.”

Peterson says the brokers he talked to were okay with the arcade game part of his business: “Then we would say, ‘Well, actually, though, we have these independent contractors who work for us, who fill demand across the entire United States.' And that was the point where they just freaked out.”

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2014/08/28

SchwartzReport: 17,000 Police Agencies in the USA, All of Them Concealing How Many People — Generally Black — They Kill Each Year…

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Law Enforcement, Officers Call

Today's news brought yet more stories of police shootings of people whose only real crime seems to be being black. It made me wonder how many people are killed by the police each year. It turns out that is a very hard number to pin down. So I went looking to see if anyone had written something recently about this! . Here's what I found. I was amazed to learn were have 17,000 different police agencies.

How Cops get Away With it: Why the Government can Read Your Emails, But Not Count Shooting Deaths
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON, Contributing Writer – Salon

Complete safety copy below the fold.

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Greg Palast: Indicting Oil Companies for Destroying New Orleans — 9.4 Million Acres of Wetlands Destroyed, Vocal Critics Destroyed Also

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government

Crime Scene – New Orleans

By Greg Palast

Tuesday, 26 August 2014

[Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans] Nine years ago this week, New Orleans drowned. Don’t you dare blame Mother Nature. Miss Katrina killed no one in this town. But it was a homicide, with nearly 2,000 dead victims. If not Katrina, who done it? Read on.

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Owl: CNN caught red handed covering up CDC medical genocide of African-American babies

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Government

Mike Adams has more on the CNN coverup of the story on vaccines and autism by the CDC. It is evident from what Adams says this coverup is another initiative to help the eugenics cause. Bill Gates and CNN founder, Ted Turner, both major eugenics proponents, should be very happy with CNN (my emphasis below):

CNN caught red handed covering up CDC medical genocide of African-American babies

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