JZ Liszkiewicz: James Randi – Exposure of Deceptions

World-class exposure of deceptions. An Honest Liar   .   An Honest Liar Download Option Encyclopedia of Claims Comment: One of best parts of the Honest Liar documentary is the exposure of the TV evangelist scoundrel, Peter Popoff.   Also see: + HolySmoke.org + Review: The Cheating Culture–Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead + …

Kosmos: Double Enclosure — the shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency

‘Double Enclosure’- the shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency What’s going on is a double-enclosure: a massive privatization and commodification of the physical world – the atmosphere, land, forests, genes, life forms, and more – and a massive privatization and commodification of economic decision making and democracy themselves.

CounterPunch: Rise of “Islam as a Solution” Fundamentalism and Failure of the Left in the Middle East

The Rise of Religious Powers and the Failure of the Left in The Middle-East: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud EXTRACT The general idea was: both US-western and Soviet models have failed or are failing, and there is an urgent need for alternative. Don’t forget these societies fought and are fighting against extremely corrupt, brutal, calculating …

Mini-Me: CODE RED Called for US Lack of Electoral Integrity — Jonathan Simon on Computerized Election Theft

Huh? CODE RED: Jonathan Simon’s Hail-Mary for Democracy I have been witness to and participant in more than a decade of strenuous but essentially fruitless efforts to challenge the passivity with which America has collectively accepted an “upgrade” that gave us a concealed, computerized, privatized vote counting process–a Trojan Horse which the forensic evidence we …

2015 ANSWERS Robert Steele for Sean Lorenz on OSINT Update 3

There is a need for hard data and statistics on OSINT — why it has been relegated to the basement and distributed rather than consolidated as with the other disciplines, what it’s successes and failures have been. In how many cases did it provide Intelligence that was critical to mission success ? NEEDS DATA 

Marpheen Chann-Berry: Maine can lead the nation with Ranked Choice reform

Maine can lead the nation with Ranked Choice reform When the status quo has been unacceptable, Maine has taken to pioneering change . Indeed, our motto Dirigo, or “I lead”, and our fiercely, politically independent electorate bolsters that proposition. Through ranked choice voting (RCV), Mainers in November of 2016 can further this ideal by enacting …