SchwartzReport: 20 Key Findings on CIA Torture — Should President Fire DNI, USDI, and D/CIA?

20 key findings about CIA interrogations Almost 13 years after the CIA established secret prisons to hold and interrogate detainees, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the CIA’s programs listing 20 key findings. Click a statement below for a summary of the findings: 1 “not an effective means of acquiring intelligence” 2 “rested …

SchwartzReport: Australia Achieves Most Efficient Solar Panels — Total Conversion Within 15 Years?

Here is the latest on the Solar Trend, and it is very good news. The price of non-carbon energy is dropping so quickly and so far, that will will soon be clear to anyone that whatever one’s views on climate change, carbon energy is simply no longer competitive. A conversion generally thought to take 30 …

SchwartzReport: Death of the American Dream & Other Pathologies

Five readers sent me this article this morning and told me they felt it perfectly described their lives, and their sense of entrapment. I just hate this trend, but facts are facts. Economist: I’ve crunched the numbers, and the American Dream is dead “America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or …

SchwartzReport: Time Cloak Encrypts Information

Here is the latest on Electronic Communications trend, and it is pretty magical. Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light A “time cloak” that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended recipient.  

SchwartzReport: Solar & Wind Energy Winning on Price vs. Conventional Fuels — PBI Add True Costs and Corrupt Fossil Subsidies and It’s a No-Brainer

The non carbon energy trend is gathering momentum at a surprising rate, and it is very good news. Here is The New York Times view, which I consider an establishment perspective and all the more surprising for that. Solar and Wind Energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels The cost of providing electricity …