Mini-Me: Air Force Nuclear Rotten; Nuclear Budget Waste to Point of Treason — Where, We Ask, Does the Buck Stop on This Nonsense?

Huh? AP Exclusive: Air Force sidelines 17 nuclear missile officers; commander cites ‘rot’ in system WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel demanded more information Wednesday after the Air Force removed 17 launch officers from duty at a nuclear missile base in North Dakota over what a commander called “rot” in the force. The Air Force …

Marcus Aureleus: From 1 to 10 Camouflage Patterns – Study in Washington Redundancy & Waste — USAF Denies Spending $500M on Digital Cloak to Create Invisible Airmen

With 10 patterns, U.S. military branches out on camouflage front By David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post, Published: May 8, 2013 In 2002, the U.S. military had just two kinds of camouflage uniforms. One was green, for the woods. The other was brown, for the desert.Then things got strange. Today, there is one camouflage pattern just for …

SmartPlanet: How thorium can burn nuclear waste and generate energy

How thorium can burn nuclear waste and generate energy There’s a growing movement to make nuclear power safer, more efficient and less weapons-prone by replacing today’s uranium fuel with another element, thorium. And within the thorium push, there are different technological ideas for how to deploy. One camp says that the best way to optimize …

SmartPlanet: U.K. businesses waste billions a year on tech investment

U.K. businesses waste billions a year on tech investment According to new research, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. habitually waste money on IT products and services they don’t need. IT software provider SolarWinds released a new study today which examines what challenges IT staff face in small and medium businesses this year. …

Reflections on Information Pathologies & Organizational Intelligence — Why Predictive Analytics on Industrial Era Data is Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Coherent, the Force is…. Restrictive Control and Information Pathologies in Organizations Wolfgang Scholl* Humboldt-University, Berlin Although the relation of power to knowledge is an often discussed theme, a psychological and sociological scrutiny of the issue is lacking. A new conceptual and theoretical approach to this issue is presented here that distingushes between restrictive and promotive …

SchwartzReport: 1,000 Year Drought in Eight Years — Corrupt Ignorant Governments Will Ignore This and Waste All Eight of Those Years

This is what we are headed towards unless we make massive adjustments in our way of life. Worst Drought in 1,000 Years Could Begin in Eight Years Beginning in just eight years, we could see permanent climate conditions across the North American Southwest that are comparable to the worst megadrought in 1,000 years. (1) The …

Berto Jongman: Carbon Trust Launches Scheme to Tackle Water Waste

Carbon Trust launches scheme to tackle water waste By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News An international standard on water reduction has been launched in an effort to order to encourage businesses to use water more sustainably. The UK’s Carbon Trust, which developed the scheme, said many business leaders did not see the issue as …