This year, US Special Operations forces have already deployed to 135 nations, according to Ken McGraw, a spokesman for Special Operations Command (SOCOM). That’s roughly 70 percent of the countries on the planet. Every day, in fact, America’s most elite troops are carrying out missions in 80 to 90 nations, practicing night raids or sometimes conducting them for real, engaging in sniper training or sometimes actually gunning down enemies from afar. As part of a global engagement strategy of endless hush-hush operations conducted on every continent but Antarctica, they have now eclipsed the number and range of special ops missions undertaken at the height of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-man...-fighting/

An older article revealing Pentagon plans for Internet Penetration
 
US plans to 'fight the net' revealed 
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
 
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
 
Bloggers beware.
 
As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer. 

<div>US Suppressed Footage of Hiroshima for Decades
 
Self-censorship happens when individual editors decide not to run photographs or footage of casualties because they deem them "too shocking" for readers or because they wish to avoid controversy or criticism.
 
"So much of the media is owned by big corporations and they would much rather focus on making money than setting themselves up for criticism from the White House and Congress," said Ralph Begleiter, a former CNN correspondent, now a journalism professor at the University of Delaware.
 
http://www.truth-out.org/archive/compone...or-decades
 
https://youtu.be/WaZl9SkfJ2Q
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Fourth-graders and eighth-graders across the United States lost ground on national mathematics tests this year, the first declines in scores since the federal government began administering the exams in 1990.
 
Reading performance also was sobering: Eighth-grade scores dropped, according to results released Wednesday, while fourth-grade performance was stagnant compared with 2013, the last time students took the test.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/edu...story.html
 

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/10/28/ne...ant-world/


Ruling Signals The End is Near For Marijuana Prohibition


Last Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that it would not prosecute marijuana crimes that were legal under state law, a move that could signal the end of the country’s longtime prohibition on pot is nearing. “It certainly appears to be potentially the beginning of the end,” said Paul Armantano, deputy director of the pot lobby group NORML.

 

You should welcome it into your mind
 
The use of technology to track and treat mental illness is deeply worrying but sadly necessary 
 
 Next week, Dr Tom Insel leaves his post as head of the US National Institute of Mental Health, a job that made him America’s top mental health doctor. Dr Insel is a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist and a leading authority on both the medicine and public policies needed to deal with problems of the mind. He’s 64 but he’s not retiring. He’s going to work for Google.
 
More precisely, he’s going to work for Google Life Sciences, one of the more exotic provinces of the online empire. He’s going to investigate how technology can help diagnose and treat mental health conditions. Google doesn’t just want to read your mind, it wants to fix it too. 
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/1...-mind.html
 

Sick of the GMOs everywhere?  Here's a partial listing of all the GMO investments within the world.
 
This GMO list was compiled based on information verified at time of publication. Since then changes in corporate ownership and/or market-driven changes have caused modifications to the practices of a few of the corporations listed below.
 
http://www.shiftfrequency.com/gmo-produc...sive-list/
 

[b]How climate change will make the hottest tropical days even more extreme[/b]



http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nature/rss/current/~3/9-ZROOaJ-7c/d41586-021-02869-w

[b]Mars Perseverance Rover Gathers Rock Sample[/b]

This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on Sept. 1, 2021 – the 190th sol, or Martian day, of the mission.


http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/mars-perseverance-rover-gathers-rock-sample

[b]A massive effort links protein-coding gene variants to health[/b]



http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nature/rss/current/~3/dv0RdCGUoWs/d41586-021-02873-0