The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out (in theory).
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out
Phi Beta Iota: Microsoft probably uses the constant updates to do things other than update. They simply cannot be trusted anymore than Google. The global marketplace is waiting for a cloud convergence that provides absolute default security including at rest data encryption.
Why Aren’t The Two Fastest Growing Demographics in Calif. Voting?
Only one in three eligible voters cast a ballot in the 2014 general election to elect all the statewide offices, congressional representatives and approve initiatives, a record low. But, for two of California’s fastest growing groups, the numbers are even more troubling.
Continue reading “IVN: No Party Preference — and Not Voting: Latinos and Asian-Americans”
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”
“Political ground is gained not when you successfully inhabit the middle ground, but when you successfully impose your framing as the ‘common-sense' position.”
George Lakoff, professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been working on moral frames for 50 years. He gives this precis: “Framing is not primarily about politics or political messaging or communication. It is far more fundamental than that: frames are the mental structures that allow human beings to understand reality – and sometimes to create what we take to be reality. But frames do have an enormous bearing on politics … they structure our ideas and concepts, they shape the way we reason … For the most part, our use of frames is unconscious and automatic.”
Viva The Academic Publisher Boycott!
Elsevier is one of the largest and most well-known scientific journal database, but it is also the most notorious for its expensive subscription fee and universities are getting tired of it. Univers reports that “Dutch Universities Start Their Elsevier Boycott.” The Netherlands, led by state secretary Sander Dekker, want all scientific content to be free online. In order to be published, the university or financier pays to be so. All content by Dutch scientists will hopefully be open access by 2024.
In the meantime, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands has asked all Dutch scientists that work with Elsevier to resign from their positions. As to be expected, some are willing and others are more reluctant. The goal is to pressure Elsevier to change its practices.
Worms infest Houston suburb water supply
On Monday evening, the first residents of the Woodlands Acres Subdivision showed up at city offices with containers full of water and small red worms they say came out of their faucets, sprinklers and shower heads. Three days and dozens of reports later, Mayor Joe Landry said “people are not taking chances.”
