1. Joseph Klein: The Man Shaping
Obama’s Strategy on Israel
2. James Hirsen: Privacy Concerns over
Google Glass Hit the Web
3. Dave Bego: One Man's Fight against
Union Power
4. Anne Speckhard,
Ph.D.: The Jodi Arias Trial & PTSD
5. John LeBoutillier:
CPAC,
Priebus' "Autopsy" of 2012 and the Dueling Budget Plans
The Man Shaping
Obama’s Strategy on Israel
By
Joseph
Klein
The
New York Times published a front page
story on Saturday, March 16th lauding Benjamin J. Rhodes, President Obama's "35-year
old deputy national security adviser with a soft voice, strong opinions and a
reputation around the White House as the man who channels Mr. Obama on foreign
policy." Rhodes successfully led the charge to persuade Obama to throw
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak under the bus and to intervene militarily in
Libya to help topple Muammar el-Qadaffi. Now Rhodes is shaping President Obama's
public charm offensive that will be on display during his visit to Israel, the
West Bank and Jordan this week. [more...]
Privacy Concerns over
Google Glass Hit the Web
By
James
Hirsen
A
major buzz has been building in the mainstream and social media over a
technological device that is being developed by search giant Google called
Google Glass, which is a wearable computer, with a head-mounted display in the
form of eyeglasses. The Google Glass eyeglasses will reportedly display
information to a wearer in a smartphone-like format and will allow a user to
interact with the Internet via voice commands. However, as has been seen with
other types of data collection, tracking technology, and proposed devices that
interface with the human body, the capabilities of such computing instruments
raise some serious issues involving personal privacy, Google Glass being no
exception. [more...]
One Man's Fight against
Union Power
Entrepreneurs
in the Silicon Valley should pay close attention to the experiences of Dave
Bego, the Indiana businessman who started a company from scratch. By
2006, after years of unrelenting toil and sacrifice by Bego and his family,
Executive Management Services, Inc. (EMS) had expanded into 38 states and had
5,000 employees. Bego now had something so valuable it became an attractive
target for unionization. Bego’s story, which he has written about in two books
and has turned into a one-man information crusade, is not unique. But his
decision to fight back is very unusual, and his account of how his company was
targeted has gone largely unreported. The details of his fight reveal a
frightening lack of legal protection for company owners and their workers from
union intimidation, as well as a dated, shamelessly abused set of exemptions
shielding over-zealous union organizers from legal sanctions. [more...] Help
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The Jodi Arias Trial & PTSD
The Jodi Arias murder case in which she claims prior
abuse and failure to remember crucial aspects of her crime have brought the
issues of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dissociation - concepts that
are confusing to many - into national attention leaving many bewildered about
how traumas, dissociation and crime may all be linked together. Oftentimes PTSD
is thought of as a disorder in which one cannot forget a trauma. And in
many cases of PTSD, the trauma - having been burned deeply into memory - is
constantly relived in intensely detailed and disturbing traumatic flashbacks.
This is the most common manifestation of PTSD and what we have become
accustomed to seeing portrayed in movies of trauma victims such as veterans suffering
flashbacks of combat. There is, however, also another side to PTSD and that is
when a dissociative amnesia occurs in response to a trauma that is too horrible
to make its way into the normal conscious narrative. [more...]
CPAC, Priebus'
"Autopsy" of 2012 and the Dueling Budget Plans
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