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SchwartzReport: Half of All US Children Will Be Autistic by 2025 Warns MIT Scientists

01 Agriculture, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government

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.

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James Fallows: Chickenhawk Nation

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Officers Call

The Tragedy of the American Military

The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.

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Sepp Hasslberger: NASA successfully tests engine that uses no fuel, violates the laws of physics

05 Energy

This is a few months old but it does mark good progress for eventually developing the capability of space exploration without having to take rocket fuel along for the ride.

NASA successfully tests engine that uses no fuel, violates the laws of physics

If the efficacy of the drive is confirmed, the implications for space travel are profound. It seems that another technology from Star Trek may be about to become reality,.

2014/12/29

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Search with Visualization

Advanced Cyber/IO

Searchblox Announces New Visualization Method for Search Results

The brief article on Searchblox titled A Visualization Is Worth a Thousand Search Results relates the addition of visualization to the Elasticsearch-based system, Searchblox. Searchblox is an open source enterprise content search engine founded in 2003. Its customers range over 25 countries and include Harley Davidson, Capital One Investments, Kellog, and the US Department of Justice, to name just a few. The article discusses the latest advancement of visualization with a note on how to use the new plugin and how it works. The article states,

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2014/12/29

SchwartzReport: 66 Out of 17,000 Lawyers Own the Supreme Court of the USA

Corruption, Government

One of the trends that concerns me the most is the corruption of the American judiciary. As empires decay, whether Roman, Burmese, or American one of the processes the failing empire goes through is that their permanent civil service structure becomes increasingly a shop closed to all but a few with special access. This article is lengthy but it spells out as I have seen it no where else what is happening to the American Supreme Court. It is not a reassuring picture.

At America’s court of last resort, a handful of lawyers now dominates the docket

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Yoda: Pope Francis Has a USA Problem — As Does the Rest of the World…

Cultural Intelligence

Pope Francis has an American problem

A U.S. trip will reveal the rift between him and his conservative bishops

EXTRACT

Francis is determined to move the focus from the sexual morality issues that dominate relations between Catholicism and the secular world view to where he believes it should be: on the plight of the poor and marginalized.

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