Marcus Aurelius: ‘Frayed’ from war: Spec ops reports alcohol abuse, stress, sleeplessness

‘Frayed’ from war: Spec ops reports alcohol abuse, stress, sleeplessness After 12 years of war, the military’s most elite forces are ‘frayed’ and reporting struggles with alcohol, sleeplessness and emotional numbness. In a survey of active-duty special operations forces, nearly 10 percent of respondents reported potential alcohol abuse or dependence, 8 percent said they were …

David Swanson: US Government Abuse of “Orders of Protection” to Detain, Interrogate, and Disarm wihtout Due Process Any Peace Activists

Anti-Drone Activists Stopped at U.S. Canadian Border due to “Orders of Protection” given by court to Commander of Drone Base By Charley Bowman In mid-June, 2013, Western New York Peace Center board member Valerie Niederhoffer was stopped and interrogated for several hours at the U.S.-Canadian border when returning to the US from an afternoon doing …

Koko: US Uranium Mining on Tribal Lands — Poisoning the Bread Basket, Decades of Human Rights and Health Abuses

Sad. America’s Secret Fukushima Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World Margaret Flowers and Devin Zeese truthout, 5 June 2013 Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of the earthen dam blocking the waste pool for the Church Rock Uranium Mill in New Mexico caved in and released 95 million gallons of …

Reflections on Information Pathologies & Organizational Intelligence — Why Predictive Analytics on Industrial Era Data is Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Coherent, the Force is…. Restrictive Control and Information Pathologies in Organizations Wolfgang Scholl* Humboldt-University, Berlin Although the relation of power to knowledge is an often discussed theme, a psychological and sociological scrutiny of the issue is lacking. A new conceptual and theoretical approach to this issue is presented here that distingushes between restrictive and promotive …

Berto Jongman: Documented Catalog of Vatican Crimes Against Humanity — Millions of Babies Sold for Cash, Hundreds of Thousands of Abused Children

The spread sheet at the below URL has web sites in support of most entries but has not been validated by an independent authority., Highlights include: USA 23,000 “orphans” in Catholic care used in human experiments/clinical trials, documented by BBN in “Guinea Pig Kids” USA 1 million women coerced by nuns to give up babies …

Review (Guest): The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

Nick Bryant 5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and weep, then seethe… April 22, 2010 By Thomas J. Breidenbach “Deep politics” is scholar Peter Dale Scott’s term for historical machinations such as drug-running and assassinations which form covert if systemic features of the contemporary state and which are all-too naively dismissed as “conspiracy theories.” …