Smart
Meters or Dumb Ideas?December 2011: Are
these helpful devices that make energy cheaper, keep the gird safe
and make all the systems we rely on more secure? Or is this 'smart'
transformation simply highly sophisticated 'social engineering'
being promulgated as 'for our own good' by a league of
multi-national energy and technology brokers who are up-playing
'consumer benefits' while plotting on taking us all to the
cleaners for billions in (their) profit?
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Cashing in on Predators?

December 2011: Are laws on sex
offenders supposed to protect kids -or- meant to enrich high-tech
tracking companies? Read this special
Mother Jones report by Kate Sheppard and see what you think
about what is happening. Then decide for yourself if it's right, or
if it's wrong. |

From our Archives...
Though still ever so topical, this 2006 interview
with Justice Stephen Breyer, sitting jurist of the United
States Supreme Court, makes it redundantly clear that for the
democratic principles codified by the U.S. Constitution to ‘work’
citizens must be ‘involved.’ |