Posts published in November 2011

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation   Earl Ofari Hutchinson If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was not Justice Thomas but an ordinary Thomas he’d be behind bars.   A cursory checklist of Thomas’s financial manipulations, abuse, and duplicity, and outright illegality complete with the legal statues and codes that he’s violated confirm his made man tag, meaning hands off from…

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureAs advertised on the company’s Web site, a Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million, which works out to less than $2,500 per pound to orbit.   That’s significantly less than what other U.S. launch companies typically charge, and even the manufacturer of China’s low-cost Long March rocket (which the U.S. has banned…

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Iceland’s reactions to its banking crisis offers lessons both for Greece and Occupy Wall Street protesters.   Iceland, in 2009, did what Greece would like to do now: it let its banks fail, and told their creditors to take a hike.   Two years on, Iceland’s economy is recovering, while Greece and Ireland and other…

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationA county north of Houston made news in Europe at the end of October by taking delivery of a new “weaponizable” drone, a squat remote-controlled helicopter called a ShadowHawk that can fire Tasers or beanbags at people on the ground.Via www.miller-mccune.com

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationBut a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police…