On the one hand:
SchwartzReport: $14M an HOUR “War on Terror”
03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
I don't know when I have been as angered by a story as I have been by this one. Fourteen million dollars an hour for 13 years. Imagine what could have been done with that money to ease the lives of the 17 million minor children who experience hunger each year, or the 2.5 million children who are homeless each year, or the destitute elderly living on dog food. What could have been done with that money to rebuild our failing infrastructure, or our crumbling schools, or to improve our poor healthcare system. And that money is independent of the over $400 billion spent on the grotesque F-35 project I reported on yesterday. All of this made possible by phony-patriot war criminals beginning with Bush and Cheney, and passed by a Congress of cretins, too weak and pusillanimous to serve the people who elected them. A government “by the people for the people,” not in anyway I can measure.
$14 Million an Hour for 13 Years: War on Terror's Astounding Cost
Sepp Hasslberger: Vaccines are Harmful…Period
07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy
Dr. Moulden said it clearly, that vaccines are first and foremost harmful. He was hounded to death for it…
Canadian physician Dr. Andrew Moulden provided clear scientific evidence to prove that every dose of vaccine given to a child or an adult produces harm. The truth that he uncovered was rejected by the conventional medical system and the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, his warning and his message to America remains as a solid legacy of the man who stood up against big pharma and their program to vaccinate every person on the Earth. Dr Moulden died unexpectedly in November of 2013 at age 49. Read more.
Potters w/o Borders — Ceramic Water Filter
07 Health, 12 Water, Civil Society, Ethics, Liberation Technology
We provide free assistance and technical advisement to develop Ceramic Water Filter (CWF) production facilities around the world. These low cost clay water filters allow families to be able to produce their own potable water and has a significant impact on their health.
Tip of the Hat to JZ Liskiewicz
Doug Bandow: Foreign Aid Does Not Work Because Government is Ignorant
01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence
Foreign aid does not work. In the end, government doesn't know what it's doing.
Throwing good money at bad governments makes poor countries worse off.
Jean Lievens: Greek Lessons — How Syriza (A Political Party) Might End European Central Banking Tyranny Plus Comment on Debt Renunciation and Embargos
01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 11 Society, Ethics, Government
Syriza can transform the EU from within – if Europe will let it
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Syriza promises first to achieve a substantial write-off of Greek debt and, second, to lift austerity by aiming for balanced budgets, instead of the surpluses demanded by the troika. It will reconnect families to the electricity network, provide food relief and shelter the homeless. It will take immediate action to reduce unemployment through public programmes. It is committed to lowering the enormous tax burden and to boosting public investment in an effort to accelerate growth.
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, GovernmentI 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.
