Farm Insurance Fraud–Lacking Domestic Intelligence

Farm insurance fraud is cheating taxpayers out of millions Perpetrators falsely claim weather or insects destroyed their crops and cash in on a government-backed insurance program. Some don’t bother planting at all. Others sell their harvests in secret. The vast majority of U.S. farmers follow the rules, insurers and federal officials said. Bert Little, director …

Americans Admire Military Personnel While Being Unaware & Uninterested in What They Do “In Our Name”

Troops Die Because of Their Country, Not For It US admiration for its soldiers may be deep and widespread, but interest in what they are doing is shallow and fleeting by Gary Younge Published on Monday, January 31, 2011 by The Guardian Most of the stories told about Benjamin Moore, 23, at his funeral started …

INDICATIONS & WARNING: Political Violence Forecasts

Predictive Societal Indicators of Radicalism In collaboration with our academic partners Prof. Cingranelli at the Political Science Department, SUNY Binghamton University and Profs. Sam Bell and Amanda Murdie at the Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, we developed a Domestic Political Violence Model that forecasts political violence levels five years into the future. The …

Philosophy: Eye of the Needle, the Rich, & Community

Dear friends, Below are the final three relatively short articles I mentioned earlier this week in my “Rise and Role of Concentrated Wealth” post. 1.  Twenty-two Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America – http://t.co/lNFYiK6 2.  A Modest Proposal to Transition to a “Cater to the Rich” …