Berto Jongman: Interesting National Security Links

Affordable World Security Event Live Al Shumukh Back Online FBI It’s A Jungle Out There – Taking on Financial Predators Global Jihad IEEE Madness More Powerful Engine Than Rationality VIDEO: Conflict Between Short-Term Elite Intersts and Long-Term Social Interests VIDEO: TED on Liberals and Conservatives World Watch Vital Signs

Eagle: Extremist Groups Grow Fast – While Angry Often Armed Non-Extremists Ponder Their Options

Southern Poverty Law Center Report: As Election Season Heats Up, Extremist Groups at Record Levels The American radical right grew explosively in 2011, a third consecutive year of extraordinary growth that has swelled the ranks of extremist groups to record levels, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The …

David Swanson: Murder of US Citizens and Others Legal — Dissection of Eric Holder Speech

Murder Is Legal, Says Eric Holder By David Swanson Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday explained why it’s legal to murder people — not to execute prisoners convicted of capital crimes, not to shoot someone in self-defense, not to fight on a battlefield in a war that is somehow legalized, but to target and kill …

Owl: Medical Ethics Extend Abortion Okay to Adults

Given all the murder we do via war, economic embargoes, subsidized drug trafficking, etcetera, there is a certain logic to this satirical piece. When do we get to euthanize the medical ethicists who say murdering newborn babies is good for society? Mike Adams NaturalNews, 2 March 2012 EXTRACT: “Lest you think this genocidal streak among …

Event: AM 31 Mar Washington Panel on Complexity & Reflexivity, Washington Academy of Sciences + Meta-RECAP

Complexity and Reflexivity Papers presented at the Washington Academy of Sciences Washington, DC, March 31-April 1, 2012 UPDATED 24 Feb to post all links Conceptions of Complexity and Implications for Economics Stuart Umpleby, The George Washington University, Washington, DC Experiments in Reflexive Inquiry Kent Myers, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton Conceptual Difficulties and Pragmatic Responses to …

Owl: Shyness, Grieving Classified as Mental Illness Treatable by Drugs, Incarceration of Sane Next?

An article like this poses the question – who is really insane, psychiatrists or the people they treat?  When readers finish this article, they may vote for the former. “In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health experts said …