The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The corporate control of the U.S. Congress, and many state legislatures, may not be enough to protect the Fracking component of the carbon energy industry. Non-carbon energy and falling oil prices have combined to strongly and negatively impact this toxic and dangerous technology. I think this is very good news.
OSE Chinese – Chapter 8 – 2015_02_02
在中国所有章节 – All Chapters in Chinese
全文下方折 – Full Text Below the Line
32,000 Open Source Hardware Designs
This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world.
They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation, solar, picture frames, and wearables. We can’t speak highly enough of those dedicated to the open source hardware movement, and who choose to share their reference designs, tutorials, and complete layouts so that others can learn and innovate faster.
The excellent BBC documentary Bitter Lake is on youtube in two parts and can be found at these links:
It is well worth watching … stylistically I found its format somewhat distracting to my tastes and would have liked it more organized chronologically. But that is a nit pick. CS
Guardian Review by Emma Graham-Harrison below the line.
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: The Arrogance of US Ignorance”
Has offshore drug production and testing finally caught up with us? On Jan 23, 2015, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended pulling four dozen generic drugs because they were approved based on flawed clinical studies conducted in India. A French inspection of GVK Biosciences in India revealed that “data manipulations of electrocardiograms during the conduct of some studies of generic medicines,” occurred for 5 years. Learn more.
This is a wonderful article. Here is real data about community owned energy generation. It is a model we should work for in every state. Actually I would prefer it more decentralized, and I think that is going to happen. On the island where I live and I am going to see if I can help set this process in motion.
USAF General James Post’s Mexican Hot Platter
There are indications and warnings (I&W) that the U.S. Air Force is headed for the rubber room, at least if the attitude of Major General James Post, the Vice Commander of Air Combat Command is an I&W of the Air Force’s corporate attitude. As I said in an earlier blaster, the AF hates the A-10 for deep-seated cultural reasons and has been trying to trash it since it was the paper A-X in the 1960s. But its recent efforts to kill the A-10 to save the troubled F-35 have degenerated into the bizarro world of cognitive dissonance. For reasons explained below, this development raises medical questions that may open up a new lucrative area for psycho-pathological research. General Post recently told Air Force officers that any A-10 pilot communicating the virtues of the A-10 to a member of Congress is committing “treason,”
