The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Migration: Are more people on the move than ever before?
From the Mediterranean to the Andaman, it's been a season of despair, the faces of migrants haunting television screens and dominating headlines.
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In my view, coal is going to be the first carbon energy source to wither and die. It will always be mined because there are non-burning uses for coal in industrial chemistry. But it will be a vastly diminished industry, operating under much tighter controls because its lobbying power will also diminish. Although it has gotten little coverage in the States I see the decision by Norway to divest from coal, as this reports describes, as the latest and most powerful example of this transition out of carbon trend. A critical consensus is emerging in collective consciousness that coal is bad as an energy source, and one measurable way this is being expressed is by individual choices concerning investment in coal. This event may be the tipping point.
Norway fund could trigger wave of large fossil fuel divestments, say experts
Other investors are likely to follow Norwegian fund’s move out of coal-based investments, due to its size as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund
China has banned them. Soon everyone will ban them.
Judge upholds Jackson County GMO ban
The judge has recognized that genetically engineered crops pose a significant commercial threat to non-biotech growers, which was a key issue in the litigation, Kimbrell said. “This case is a resounding affirmation of the right of farmers to protect themselves from GE contamination.”
United Nations says encryption and online anonymity are basic human rights
The ability to anonymize yourself online and encrypt your data and communications is fundamental to free expression and should be a protected human right, a United Nations report said Thursday. The agency added that the tools are “necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age.”
88 percent of the top 500 porn sites have tracking elements installed
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incognito mode does “virtually zero to stop this tracking
Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments
The U.S. Could Get a Third of Its Electricity From Wind Power—and Save Billions of Gallons of Water
A new report details the health and environmental benefits of ramping up wind energy.
Robert Greenwald and Vanessa Baden are two of the most respected documentarians in the the U.S., so they know whereof they speak about filming law enforcement in action. From my perspective of course a citizen can video his police in action. When I read about this issue I am taken back 20 years to the old Soviet Union, when filming the police could get you into real trouble. Bullies and jackboots it goes without saying do not like to be filmed. They know what they are doing is morally wrong, whatever they say publicly. And they don't want their actions memorialized. The fact that this is even a debated issue in the U.S. tells you how compromised civil liberties have become. Greenwald and Baden present the case for why assess things as I do.
