THREAT Week Ending 2014-02-22 [THU 7 PM New]

01 Poverty Kids, Poverty and Mental Health: Children of war Tackling poverty and improving education go hand in hand Micro Credit Cannot Aleviate the Poverty of Capitalism 02 Infectious Disease Stealthy, Debilitating Disease Is Poised to Sweep the United States San Francisco Overrun with Bloodsuckers (and Ticks) TAHC visiting major stock shows to discuss biosecurity …

David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs

War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …

Berto Jongman: OuterNet – Free Online Access from Outer Space – Starting with NYC?

Forget the Internet – soon there will be the OUTERNET: Company plans to beam free Wi-fi to every person on Earth from space An ambitious project known as Outernet is aiming to launch hundreds of miniature satellites into low Earth orbit by June 2015 Each satellite will broadcast the Internet to phones and computers giving …

4th Media: John Walsh on Prosperous China Implications for the USA

A Prosperous China vs An Imperial US JOHN V. WALSH | Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 11:31 Beijing China has stated its goals quite unambiguously. “A moderately prosperous society by 2020” is the first goal and “a strong socialist nation by 2049” as the second. But this may be simplified: China’s leadership wants its people to …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera + Best of Ukraine 1.7

9/11: CIA black operation murders Philip Marshall? (Wayne Madsen) BITCOIN: arrest of operators of two exchanges BOOK: Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict CHINA: annual urban exodus tracked by Baida CONGO: ambush of commander CONGO: situation worsening CYBER: cash registers – crime wave