The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Urban beekeeping keeps cities healthy “We need bees for the future of our cities and urban living,” Noah Wilson-Rich said at TEDxBoston. Wilson-Rich completed his Ph.D. in honeybee health in 2005. In 2006, honeybees started disappearing. “We don’t even find dead bodies, and it’s bizarre. Researchers still do not know what’s causing it,” says …
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Pentagon report says Defense Department whistleblowers have been left vulnerable to reprisals By R. Jeffrey Smith and Aaron Mehta | Center for Public Integrity, 5 May 2012 The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers who have reported wrongdoing, according to an internal Pentagon report, and critics are calling for action to be taken …
Uncle Gary’s Bedtime Story: ‘Why Congress Invented Tax-Deferred IRA Accounts’ I hope you’re tucked in. Get used to the feeling of being tucked in. Don’t you feel safer now? Settle down. I’ll tell you a story. Once upon a time, there were two United States Senators. One was a Democrat. The other was a Republican. They …
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Is Iran Already Under Attack? Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic, Dec 2, 2011 Adam Chandler, the Goldblog deputy-editor-for-monitoring-Iran-obsessively-even-though-Goldblog-himself-also-monitors-Iran-obsessively, pointed out to me the other day that perhaps the West has already begun the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, that perhaps we ought to reframe this issue a bit. The attacks he mentioned are not the usual …
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Worth it? That’s a question you hear a lot. “Was it worth it?” Not certain what either “it” refers to, but generally we’re saying, “was the destination worth the journey? Was the effort worth the reward?” The thing about effort is that effort is its own reward if you allow it to be. So the …
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Could BitTorrent Be The Distributed Social Network People Have Been Clamoring For? from the it’s-got-the-distribution… dept Innovation by Mike Masnick TechDirt, Thu, May 12th 2011 One of the key things we’ve been noting over the past few months is how many more people are beginning to recognize the benefits of having systems and services that …
Philip J. Crowley Assistant Secretary Bureau of Public Affairs Speaking at MIT’s Center for Civic Media Phi Beta Iota: Worth reading, candid, interesting at multiple levels, not least of which is that the New York Times is still his source of record, and he assumes that CIA has a grip on social media–never mind that …
