The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Under the Mask of the War on Drugs LARS SCHALL – Asia Times (Hong Kong) The corruption prohibition produces is so much more extensive than most people realize. An unholy alliance between governments and cartels and, like a cancer, is eating us alive from the inside. Here is a taste of reality that explains how …
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The Drugs Don’t Work: a Modern Medical Scandal BEN GOLDACRE – The Guardian (U.K.) This is an excellent and very insightful account of what has happened in Big Pharma’s quest for profit above health. Although the physician author is based in the U.K., his comments apply to the U.S. as well. If it doesn’t scare …
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Four reasons why meaningful, disruptive innovation fails By Andrew Nusca | October 25, 2012 “Why can’t we solve big problems?” asks Jason Pontin in MIT’s Technology Review. Technologist Paul Carr recently described the term disruption as “the faddish Silicon Valley concept which essentially boils down to, “let us do whatever we want, otherwise we’ll bully …
Heavy Metal in Iraq By David Isenberg, Oct. 22, 2012 Every war is hell, particularly for civilians. And while every war produces deadly familiar impacts on the civilian population whether it is death and injuries due to combat or subsequent illness and death due to destruction of infrastructure sometimes the impact can be unique. Sadly, …
Below is a BBC report of and Israeli “calorie” study drafted in support of Israel blockade policies for Gaza. To Israel’s credit, an Israeli human rights group forced the release of this report, but it does nevertheless raise a question: What kind of government would authorize work on such a methodical report on this subject …
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The Myth of “Surgical Strikes” on Iran By David Isenberg TIME Battleland | October 18, 2012 For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and Iran, oceans of ink have been spilled over many aspects of its nuclear program — the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium, …
Early detection is key when it comes to tackling breast cancer but getting screened more than once a year can be impractical, especially for women under 40. Now, one medical company hopes to make spotting tumors as easy as getting dressed in the morning. The First Warning System is a “smart bra” designed to catch …
