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CounterPunch: Fukushima – The Real Story

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Secrets
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counterpunch goodThe Real Story: What’s Really Going on at Fukushima?

by ROBERT HUNZIKER

Fukushima’s still radiating, self-perpetuating, immeasurable, and limitless, like a horrible incorrigible Doctor Who monster encounter in deep space. Fukushima will likely go down in history as the biggest cover-up of the 21st Century. Governments and corporations are not leveling with citizens about the risks and dangers; similarly, truth itself, as an ethical standard, is at risk of going to shambles as the glue that holds together the trust and belief in society’s institutions. Ultimately, this is an example of how societies fail.

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Facebook Open Source Hardware $140B and Rising

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Mark Dixon
Mark Dixon

How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market

It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head. Facebook’s extraordinary Open Compute Project is doing for hardware what Linux, Android, and many other popular products did for software: making it free and “open source.”

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SchwartzReport: USG Held in Low Esteem

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
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Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

No government, particularly no democracy, can long endure when it is held in contempt by the people whose interests it is supposed to represent. Yet month after month, and now year after year that is exactly what is happening, as this Gallup study makes clear.  And yet the subject is hardly mentioned by media or campaigners.

Confidence in U.S. Branches of Government Remains Low

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in each of the three branches of the U.S. government remains low, with confidence in Congress and the Supreme Court near their all-time lows reached last year. Currently, 33% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the presidency, 32% are this confident in the Supreme Court, and Congress is still well behind, at 8%.

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Holy Father: Climate Change Encyclical

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Most Holy Father Francis

Pope Francis' Climate Change Encyclical Just Leaked. Here's What It Says.

Humans are causing climate change, and there will be “grave consequences” if we don't act fast, warns the pope.

Pope Francis will this week call for changes in lifestyles and energy consumption to avert the “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem” before the end of this century, according to a leaked draft of a papal encyclical. In a document released by an Italian magazine on Monday, the pontiff will warn that failure to act would have “grave consequences for all of us.”

Francis also called for a new global political authority tasked with “tackling…the reduction of pollution and the development of poor countries and regions.” His appeal echoed that of his predecessor, pope Benedict XVI, who in a 2009 encyclical proposed a kind of super-UN to deal with the world's economic problems and injustices.

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Melissa Sterry: Interview on Bionic City

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Melissa Sterry
Melissa Sterry

DESIGN TRUTH

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You say that humanity “is a fresher at the University of Life”. How important do you think it is to decode nature before coding technology?

In my experience, a sizeable quantity of that which is positioned as a ‘solution’ to a current or anticipated future problem is flawed, and sometimes deeply so. Often the flaws are technical, as for example with a great many ‘green building’ proposals that involve sticking trees on balconies and roofs.  . . .  Five decades later and the same mistakes are being made. Not only that, but we’re arguably seeing even greater levels of ignore in regard of science.