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2015/11/262015/11/25

CounterPunch: Big Expense, Bad Policy, Bad Ethics: U.S. Military Bases Abroad

Bad Policy, Bad Ethics: U.S. Military Bases Abroad EXTRACT Military spending now accounts for 54% of discretionary spending in the entire federal budget ($599 billion of $1.1 trillion). Vine calculates that overseas bases account for anywhere between $71 – $120 billion of military spending. That is to say, bases abroad cost as much as four times the …

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2015/07/112015/07/11

Mongoose: American Psychological Association Pandered to DoD, Threw Ethics Aside to Validate Torture UPDATE 1

Sacks of shit. Report: American Psychological Association colluded with U.S. interrogation programs EXTRACT The probe concluded that the association’s ethics director and others had “colluded with important [Department of Defense] officials to have APA issue loose, high-level ethical guidelines that did not constrain” the Pentagon in its interrogation of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. …

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2015/06/022015/06/03

Jack Devine: On Ethics & Intelligence at Carnegie

2015/03/22

IVN Steele on Electoral Reform Part 13: Overview of the Ethics

Steele on Electoral Reform — Part 13: Overview of the Ethics Independent Voter Network, 13 April 2012 One of the most heartening aspects of my connecting electoral reform to Occupy and then via YouTube to the Reddit community, has been opportunity to meet pioneers who have been dedicated to this matter much longer than I …

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2015/02/142015/02/14

Sepp Hasslberger: CDC Lies on Measles — Jon Rappoport 13 Indictments in Re Conflicts of Interest, Lack of Ethics, Betrayal of Public Trust

The US Centers for Disease Control or CDC is hopelessly conflicted in both promoting and approving vaccines. Jon Rappoport explains in some detail. Measles outbreak: 13 reasons to reject the hype Hype a war, sell an invasion. Hype a disease, sell a vaccine. That’s the business model. Make no mistake about it. And at the criminal …

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2014/08/102014/08/06

Berto Jongman: Melanie Swan on Machine Ethics

Machine Ethics Interfaces Melanie Swan Machine ethics is a term used in different ways. The basic use is in the sense of people attempting to instill some sort of human-centric ethics or morality in the machines we build like robots, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence (Wallach 2010) so that machines do not harm humans either …

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2014/06/242014/06/23

Jean Lievens: American Thinker Heretical Thoughts on Ethics and Capitalism

Some Heretical Thoughts on Politics and Economics Glenn Fairman American Thinker, 21 June 2014 The belief that the raw mechanics of Capitalism, uninformed by any moral penumbra of ethics, religion, or philosophy, has alone caused the great material increase of the West, is of itself suspect. Indeed, the Protestant Work Ethic, the idea of fair …

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