Yoda: Washington DC Decriminalizes Marijuana – End of Rule by Secrecy and “Because I Said So” Looms

Wisdom, this is. Marijuana Decriminalization in U.S. Capital Passes Council By William Selway Bloomberg News, March 04, 2014 The Washington city council voted to decriminalize marijuana consumption in private homes, adding the nation’s capital to a growing list of states that have loosened sanctions for using the drug. The council today approved reducing the punishment …

Berto Jongman: Springer & IEEE Quality Control? No. 120 Computer-Generated Gibberish Papers

Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers Conference proceedings removed from subscription databases after scientist reveals that they were computer-generated. Richard Van Noorden Nature, 24 February 2014 The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.

Berto Jongman: Pollster – Kiev-Style Revolt ‘Coming to America’

Pollster: Kiev-Style Revolt ‘Coming to America’ Former presidential advisor says “soft corruption” will lead to domestic disorder Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 26, 2014 Pollster and former presidential advisor Pat Caddell warns that the rise of “soft oppression” and corruption in the United States will facilitate a violent Kiev-style uprising in the streets of America. …

Berto Jongman: Capital Theft, Not Government Corruption, is Root of Poverty in Third World

Flipping the corruption myth Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South John Hickel Al Jazeera, 1 February 2014 Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow …

Berto Jongman: Catalog of Snowden Revelations About NSA (Brookings)

Catalog of the Snowden Revelations About NSA This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States’ surveillance activities. Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA …

Jon Rappoport: Obama Delivers State of the Onion — the Unpublished Truthful Version Leaks

Obama and the State of the Onion Address Apparently, the President had ingested some kind of weird drug, because when he stepped to the podium he didn’t look at the teleprompter. He just started talking. “…like every other recent President, when I take to this platform I’m expected to tell a certain number of lies …