The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
AL QAEDA: Al-Qaeda training British and European ‘jihadists' in Syria to set up terror cells at home
AL QAEDA: Libyan Desert gives al-Qaida refuge after Mali defeat
CYBER: SCADA Holes Exploited
ETHICS: Greenwald on Whistleblowers
FUTURE: Nye on Avoiding a Gated World
LIFE: Food Around the World – Enough to Eat, Affordability, Quality, Diabetes & Obesity
LIFE: Is Consciousness Matter?
NSA: Clapper Declassifies Documents, Meta Storage Started 2006
NSA: Mexico's Computers Infiltrated?
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Written from a decidedly German perspective, but very interesting.
Conflicts Unchanged in Birthplace of WWI
By Walter Mayr, 16 January 2014
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“There will be no peace in this area, as long as everyone is not living among his own people,” says the Serb mayor. And Bato Princip, the assassin's descendant, warns the rest of Europe against the illusion that everyone has learned his lesson in the place where World War I began, “because in this country, there are always, unfortunately, three different truths: one for Serbs, one for Croats and one for Muslims.”
Security Stupid:
A couple months ago there was a TRIAL in DC involving an active duty officer in Afghanistan who passed a threat warning via NIPRNET – and was thrown under the bus even though the threat was valid and an attack of the site occurred.
Security Real:
Marine Corps officer hoards classified documents at home for a possible book
Truth about the Seralini rat-tumor-GMO study explodes
Remember a researcher named Gilles-Eric Seralini, his 2012 GMO study, and the controversy that swirled around it?
He fed rats GMOs, in the form of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, and they developed tumors. Some died. The study was published in the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology. Pictures of the rats were published.
A wave of biotech-industry criticism ensued. Pressure built. “Experts” said the study was grossly unscientific, its methods were unprofessional, and Seralini was biased against GMOs from the get-go. Monsanto didn’t like Seralini at all.
The journal which published the Seralini study caved in and retracted it.
Why? Not because Seralini did anything unethical, not because he plagiarized material, not because he was dishonest in any way, but because:
He used rats which (supposedly) had an inherent tendency to develop tumors (the Sprague-Dawley strain), and because he used too few rats (10). That’s it. Those were Seralini’s errors.
Well, guess what? Eight years prior to Seralini, Monsanto also did a rat-tumor-GMO study and published it in the very same journal. Monsanto’s study showed there were no tumor problems in the rats. But here’s the explosive kicker. Monsanto used the same strain of rats that Seralini did and same number of rats (10). And nobody complained about it.
Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumer’s Union, explains in an interview with Steve Curwood at loe.org:
Continue reading “Jon Rappoport: Monsanto Dishonesty & Rat Tumors from GMO Food”
The Sharing Economy is Steeped in Ethical Controversy
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According to Vice contributor Kelly Carlin, the term “sharing economy” has become a misnomer. By attaching the word “sharing” to a service it gives clients a warm fuzzy feeling, like attaching “green” or “all natural.” Carlin calls it ‘sharewashing.’ “Peel back the wrapper and you find that beneath its promised efficiencies and innovations, the sharing economy moniker can sometimes whitewash operations that are tax-shifting, labour-regulation-skirting and tip-stealing,” she writes.
Long story at link below is front page of today's WaPo and is a compelling one. In electronic version, there is also video.
IMHO, story showcases two key points:
1. After 9/11, the military and intelligence community went to war while America went to the mall. Score a failure for the Bush Administration.
2. While I certainly neither present nor involved and at the risk of both speaking ill of the dead taking issue what Leon Panetta said at the time, the Chief of Base at Camp Chapman (Khost), Afghanistan was unqualified for the position held.. She may have been a credible analyst but she wasn't an operator by either experience or training and based on everything I've read and watching the move “Zero Dark Thirty,” I think she was personally responsible for not preventing the deaths at Khost Base, including Jeremy Wise, on that day in December, 2009.
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