On The Deficit
CNN-
“Let’s not boast about a $300 billion deficit,” said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada. “Any statistic you look at recognizes the rich in America are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is getting squeezed.”
Well said.
Rumsfield Catches On
WaTimes –
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, traveling in Tajikistan, says drug traffickers are helping to finance the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
Only took 5 years before this was publicly acknowledged. He’s now bent upon curbing the drug trade, which is implausable. And the far right of the GOP will not condone regulating the industry, which provides the farmers with better lifestyles (and longer lifespans) than accepted crops. The convergance of which boils down to the fact that international illicit connectivity will lead to the loss of the Afghani war.
Social Innovation Podcasts
A nice collection of podcasts from Social Innovation Conversations: series include Globeshakers – conversations with various innovators, Disruption Management – focuses on disaster relief, and Bridging the Gap – which revolves around high profile social innovators.
FOIA Redux
St. Mary’s University School of Law will conduct a government-funded study of possible alterations to the Freedom of Information Act aimed at fighting terrorism, a school official said.
Jeffrey Addicott, head of the school’s Center for Terrorism Law, said the yearlong project will examine ways of rewriting the open government law to prevent terrorists from getting sensitive information about water, sewer, electricity and transportation systems.
A preliminary step in the trajectory to achieving resiliency is being taken, eventually – when they realize they can not deny access to this type of information – other methods pathyways will be followed. Pathways which will lead to these systems being able to absorb and rapidly respond to disruptions.
Pictures Louder Than Words
Not sure how much of my thousand or so audience reads the daily comics – but this one is enjoyable and illustrates the absurd position the US government is taking in Iraq –
