SchwartzReport: Blue Death (Poisoned Tap Water) + Radioactive Wastewter from Natural Gas Drilling

When I first began to travel professionally, when I started working for National Geographic, we used to be warned about not drinking the local water from the tap. Today I would be more concerned about the tap water in parts of American than I would be in much of the rest of the world. Here’s …

Congressional Research Service — Index Frozen 2 JUNE 2015

NOTICE: We are suspending our update of this index. All CRS reports will continue to be offered at the Federation of American Scientists, and updated as new version are received, but we will not longer maintain this separate index.   Updated FAS new 2 June 2015. All links lead to Federation of American Scientists (FAS) …

Marcus Aurelius: The Future of Joint Operations

Everybody play nice together while the bulk of already inadequate and dwindling resources are weighted to Navy and Air Force in the Pacific.  [Oh, BTW, in separate Armed Forces Journal reporting, twp Army officers, a major general and a colonel, assert that former Chief of Naval Operations ADM (Ret) Gary Roughead and Hoover Institution analyst Kori Schake have recommended …

2013 Robert Steele Reflections on Alternative Command & Control (AltC2) — Five Questions and a Game Plan 1.1

1.1 Adds contribution “An API for NATO” from Innovation Hub participant laukner, and adds Open Source Everything (OSE) graphic that most of us agree is the necessary technical transformation that must take place for the UN, EU, NATO, BRICS, and others to be effective at M4IS2 and creating a prosperous world at peace, a world …

Robin Good: Blekko Groups Online Search Curation on the Fly

Curates by Source and Category Blekko Home Page Blecko / Extreme Poverty Blecko / Infectious Disease Blecko / Environmental Degradation Blecko / Inter-State Conflict Blecko / Civil War Blecko / Genocide Blecko / Other Atrocities Human Blecko / Proliferation Weapons Blecko / Terrorism Blecko / Transnational Crime

Mini-Me: End Hunger, 3D Printed Food — GMO on Steroids, Toxins Free

Huh? NASA-funded research The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food Christopher Mims Quartz, 21 May 2013 Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six …

Koko: Infectious Disease — Not War Of Our Own Making — Should Be Our Top Priority Along with Poverty

Foolish humans — one trillion dollar virus in gestation. China’s bird flu outbreak cost $6.5 billion (Reuters) – The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on Tuesday. Health authorities worldwide …