The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Want to Solve Climate Change? Tackle Inequality
What will it take to get into the doughnut? Tackling inequality is key – and that means addressing resource inequalities in both consumption and production. Here’s why, in three messages.
From America's CounterIntelligence hub, CounterPunch…
Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a “Bad Attitude”?
Obama’s Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism
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Continue reading “Mongoose: Got a Bad Attitude? Go to Jail…”
Infectious Disease Experts Argue: ‘Ebola Virus Could Be an Aerosol-Transmissable Disease’
Healthcare workers should be equipped with air-purifying respirators because “patients and procedures generate aerosols, and Ebola virus remains viable in aerosols for up to 90 minutes,” they noted.
Union leader turns eyes on freelance workers
… independent contractors aren't eligible for such things as unemployment benefits and they don't fall under the National Labor Relations Act.
The sharing economy: make it sustainable
Damien Demailly; Anne-Sophie Novel
Studies N°03/2014. Iddri, 2014. 32 p.
Is the sharing economy a tool for ecological transition? The main objective of this report is to analyse the environmental potential of the sharing economy, considered in its full diversity, and the conditions for the realization of this potential.
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: The sharing economy – make it sustainable”
The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
The data expose a dangerous malfunction in capitalism's engine room. Banks, mutual funds and investment firms used to ensure that citizens' savings were transformed into technical advances, growth and new jobs. Today they organize the redistribution of social wealth from the bottom to the top.
By Michael Sauga
Spiegel, 23 October 2014
The failure of the industrial chemical agriculture and husbandry model is becoming increasingly evident. But just as alternatives to carbon energy are gaining momentum, so I hope an agriculture and husbandry alternative, such as that described in this report, takes hold and similarly replaces the chemicals and poisons.
Amish Farmers Study Plant Immunology, Avoid Using Pesticides Completely
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Samuel Zook, an Amish farmer recently explained to a reporter: “If you really stop and think about it, though, when we go out spraying our crops with pesticides, that’s really what we’re doing. It’s chemical warfare, bottom line.” His frustration led him to the writings of an 18-year old Amish farmer from Ohio, named John Kempf. This young upstart is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, a consulting firm the farmer established in 2006 to promote science-intensive organic agriculture.
