The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Madison's Farce In Action: The media’s disgraceful reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden Report
EXTRACT
In an ideal world, Hersh’s report would trigger more investigative journalism. Yet despite its obvious importance, as Trevor Timm explains below in the Columbia Journalism Review, the mainstream media’s reaction to the Hersh report has not been to dig deeper, but to shoot the messenger.
Editor In Chief Of World’s Best Known Medical Journal: Half Of All The Literature Is False
Dr. Horton recently published a statement declaring that a lot of published research is in fact unreliable at best, if not completely false.
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” (source)
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: 50% Medical Literature False”
Image Search: Getting Better and Better [Not Really]
Image search means having software which can figure out from a digital photo that a cow is a cow. In more complex photos, the software identifies what it can. I recall one demonstration which recognized me as a 20 year old criminal. Close but no cigar.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Image Search Fact-Checking”
As I have said over and over “Water is Destiny.” Very few people have paid any attention to their water company. It's regular bill, one of those things that just is, as a part of modern life. That is about to change, as the privatization movement gains momentum. In this report you can see the emerging corporate view of the Water Privatization Trend. To me this is very scary stuff. The essential substance of life owned by a few people. Think about that.
Exclusive Dispatch: Private Water Industry Says Water Bills “Have to Go Up”
Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Water Privatization — Be Very Afraid”
Worth listening to very carefully. Listen specially at 1.53.03 in English. This is the first time a chief of the Parti Québécois says these things in English.
Phi Beta Iota: By 2025, no later, we expect Quebec, Scotland, Hawaii, and Vermont to be sovereign republics. If the USA wishes to retain its geographic integrity, it had better re-establish political integrity. Electoral reform is non-negotiable.
UPDATE 1: YouTube (2:32) English portion of Quebec Independence Speech
YouTube (2:06:44) Below the Line. HISTORIC.
Continue reading “Pierre Cloutier: Quebec Heads for Independence UPDATE 1”
Visions of a Positive Future vs Fixing a Pathological Present
it is not enough to resist or fight the system and the problems that exist. It is absolutely inadequate to aim for repairing the symptoms of what is broken. We need big, positive visions which lift our sights higher, towards horizons where there are bright futures, not scotch tape and bubblegum fixes for the pathological system we currently inhabit.
Our view of what constitutes intelligence may be skewed. Certainly we can't be proud of behaving intelligently if we consider our influence on the eco-environment that we are embedded in.
What If Humans Aren't the Most Intelligent Creatures on the Planet?
Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd makes a good argument in a recent Facebook post that perhaps humans concept of intelligence is anthropocentric and lacking in breadth.
