SchwartzReport: Corrupt Health System, Urban Farming Lowers Crime

Health Insurers Raise Rates Bigtime Despite Obamacare NEAL COLGRASS – Newser This is the flaw in Obamcare. You simply can’t create a viable nationwide healthcare system when it’s principal function is to produce profit. Other countries have shown profit can be part of the program, but not its principal function. The greed in America is …

SchwartzReport: Food-Borne Illness Epidemic in USA (48 Million) FDA on Sidelines

Why Isn’t the FDA Stopping the Epidemic of Foodborne Illness? The agency charged with overseeing the safety of our food is out to lunch. Here’s why. Barry Estabrook Mother Jones, 5 December 2012 EXTRACT: The 2011 listeria outbreak was not an isolated case. The United States is experiencing what amounts to an epidemic of foodborne …

SchwartzReport: US Spends Tens of Billions Abroad–Better Spent at Home?

Where Does Milllons in Pentagon Contracts Go? NICK TURSE – Mother Jones While American children are going to bed hungry, and their schools all too often are falling apart, we have squandered untold billions on the infrastructure and schools of the countries where we have created wars, producing astonishing profits for war contractors, and little …

SchwartzReport: Big Sugar Does a Big Tobacco — True Cost of Sugar to Society

Does Sugar Kill? How the Sugar Industry Hid the Toxic Truth For decades, the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? GARY TAUBES and CRISTIN KEARNS COUZENS – AlterNet (U.S.) November 15, 2012 | This article first appeared in Mother Jones Magazine. Get your magazine  subscription here. ON A BRISK SPRING Tuesday in 1976, a pair …

Search: solutions for prosperous world UPDATED to include readings & contact info

Updated 29 October 2012 to include frequent search request “readings about solutions for a prosperous world” also added skype and email contact info New integrated search term:  readings about solutions for a prosperous world The proven process of intelligence is not secret, not federal, and not expensive.  Thinking is free.  What matters is the strategic …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

British Special Forces in Syria CI Glossary (PDF at Cryptome) Collapsing US Credibility Convergence of Organized Crime and Terrorism Dark Money in USA – Mother Jones Drone Civilian Death Claims Mount Drone Death Figures Do Not Add Up Drone Policy Transparency Global financial cybercrime sting yields 24 arrests Drug Violence Interactive Map EU Plan for …

Owl: US Government Criminality from Local to National

Government larceny and criminality just never ends, it seems to be increasing, especially against those who can least to afford to defend themselves against it: Another Way to Kill Small U.S. Farmers: Seize Their Bank Accounts on Phony Charges The farmers, Randy Sowers and his wife Karen, made deposits totaling more than $295,000 from May …