It’s time to admit the recycling mania is a giant placebo. A couple of years ago, after sending my five-year-old daughter off to school, she came home reciting the same cheerful environmental mantra I was taught in elementary school. “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” she...
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News Roundup 1/9/19
US News A federal judge rules the state of Oregon cannot fine a man for calling himself an engineer. The state attempted to fine the man $500. The court found calling himself an engineer was within his first amendment rights. [Link] New Hampshire police arrested a man...
Space X, Social Media and the Lost Boys
The world is full of concern and a voyeur’s inability to help the Thai soccer team and their coach trapped inside the caves of Thailand. Social Media along with traditional media is full of its share of sighs of shock and concern while the Captain Hindsight’s of...
News Roundup 4/23/18
Mitt Romney will face a primary challenger in the Utah Senate race after losing the Utah GOP Convention vote. [Link] Florida police attempt to use a dead man's fingerprints to unlock his iPhone. [Link] John Bolton hires Mira Ricardel as Deputy National Security...
Corrected: Gina Haspel Did Not Torture Zubaydah, Apparently
Not only did the new CIA Director personally oversee the torture of Abu Zubaydah, she did so in order to lie you and your mom into supporting the aggressive war against Iraq. From David Rose’s report "Tortured Reasoning": Some of what he did say was leaked by the...
How the Global Drug War Pushed Down Heroin Prices
In the 1950s, Corsican gangsters such as Lucky Luciano created a mafia empire by smuggling morphine base from Turkey to Sicily, where it was refined into heroin, then shipped to France and finally to the United States. This was the infamous "French Connection" that...
Shocking Truth on the IMF
How does the IMF really work? Get the real inside scoop in this humorous format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCypnbJVk8E
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