Berto Jongman: Baltimore Police Made Riot Happen

Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn’t Start the Way You Think Baltimore teachers and parents tell a different story from the one you’ve been reading in the media. EXTRACT: When school let out that afternoon, police were in the area equipped with full riot gear. According to eyewitnesses in the Mondawmin neighborhood, the police were stopping …

SchwartzReport: Food Issues on the Ballot — Public Loses Every Time!

This was an election that had a significantly large number of food and food safety issues on various state ballots. The election was rarely discussed from this perspective so I thought it might be useful to consider what just happened. From GMOs to Soda Taxes, Here’s What the Election Means for Your Fridge

Tom Engelhardt: Failure is Success – How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century PLUS Robert Steele on Steps President Obama Could Take…

Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century “While taxpayer dollars flowed into your coffers, no one considered it a problem that the country lacked 17 overlapping outfits bent on preventing approximately 400,000 deaths by firearms in the same years; nor 17 interlocked agencies dedicated to safety on our roads, where more …

Eagle: The Purchase of the Republic — Extraordinary Graphics, Griftopia in One Article

The Purchase of Our Republic A Democracy in Name Only The massive consolidation of wealth, combined with the removal of any limits on money in campaigns, has allowed for the purchase of our government. Y. Falkson Americans know that something is wrong, deeply wrong. They see signs of the problem everywhere: income inequality, growing concentration …

Yoda: True Cost Economics Model from Foundation Earth

Toward A True-Cost Economic Model: Cheater Economics, Fair Play, & Long-Term Survival Over the next century communities worldwide will experience an unprecedented shift of weather instability. Extreme weather events are ecological spasms often driving economic spasms and regional collapses. Concerned citizens and opinion leaders need to prepare before these eco-spasms proliferate. Far from being prepared, …