The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Connecting the dots….isn’t that what intelligence is supposed to do? Why Is Autism So Drastically on the Rise? An Environmental Horror Story An investigation into the relationship between environmental poisons and human health is riveting — and terrifying. If horror is your genre, environmental writer Brita Belli’s The Autism Puzzle, is the book for you. Her …
Sort of nice, but will it scale? Climate Meme Project The Climate Meme Project is a crowd funded, open collaboration initiative to reveal the meme landscape for climate action. “Our one-day elementary school project, Climate Change is Elementary, bypasses the usual negative discourse by assuming that every educated person agrees that it is a scientific …
US Navy dolphins to be reassigned Herald.ie, 2 December 2012 Some dolphins used by the Navy to track down mines will soon lose their jobs to robots – but they will be reassigned, not retired. Starting in 2017, 24 of the Navy’s 80 military-trained dolphins will be replaced by a 12-foot unmanned torpedo-shaped vehicle, according …
Real democracy, technologically-enabled. Iclanders Approve Their Crowdsourced Constitution Iceland’s citizens were given a chance to help forge a new constitution for their country through Facebook and Twitter, so it’s not surprising that they backed the resulting draft. Now it’s over to the politicians. A constitution is a deeply serious thing: the bedrock of a country’s …
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David Petraeus Rehire Effort Gaining Momentum Online David Petraeus rehire movement is picking up online after a report by Emily Yoffe from Slate voiced her opinion that President Barack Obama should rehire David Petraeus. “I have a great idea whom Barack Obama should nominate as his next CIA director: Gen. David Petraeus.” Yoffe wrote. . …
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A positive contrast to the corrupt Nobel Peace Price. Liberia: Ellen Wins India’s Peace Prize The Honorary Consulate General of India in Liberia has announced that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been awarded the Indira Gandhi 2012 price for peace, disarmament, and development. A communication issued by the Indian Honorary Consul General Upjit Singh Sachdeva …
To put Sandy in perspective, the number of mid- to long-term dislocated is 40,000, as compared to 700,000 for Katrina. NYC Needs Housing for 40,000 as New Storms Bear Down Damage from Hurricane Sandy means New York may need to find shelter or new homes for as many as 40,000 people, at least half of …
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