[Note from the Editor: Although this article was originally written on Nov. 24th, 2008 by Alex Trusca, our new contributing author, I thought it had a strong relevance with today's global happenings. I can't help but think of how Iranians have used something as simple as Twitter, a seemingly superficial microblogging service, to effectively disseminate information that was critical to this recent Iranian uprising.

This article is reprinted here from The Social Verdict.]

The high-speed transfer of information in today’s world is a determining factor for technological improvements, business undertakings, and day-to-day communications. Many a time, this rapid yet necessary transfer of information can have broad consequences ranging from making or breaking business deals to the saving of lives in the farthest corners of the world. The “knowledge is power” truism is more relevant than ever in today’s cohesive social structure as more and more people are starved for varying sorts of information. People realize its substantial potential and appreciate the advantages of knowing as opposed to the downsides of being left in the dark.

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“My father hated war, so he fixed me.”

This incident can never be forgotten by me. My father Adolph blinded me in my right eye — the same eye one needs to look down the length of a rifle, over the sights, to kill an enemy soldier … before the enemy kills you.

No doubt about it, Adolph was positive that Nazi Germany would win the war, and for a time, winning they were! My father feared for his family’s lives. After Great Britain, he believed the Nazi would be at our shores next. Don’t laugh because you too, back then, the way the war was going at that time, would have expected the United States to be invaded by the Nazis and soon.

While I was a baby, my father worked in a steel mill in Bridgeville and one day he brought home some of his welding equipment. That late afternoon he bound up a thick blindfold over my left eye, stood in front of me and he did it; he blinded me in my right eye.

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Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

Is N. Korea really going to attack Hawaii, or Japan or anyone? Well, I don’t know, but John Feffer, from Foreign Policy In Focus, gives some rational reasons as to why the threat is not what it may seem.

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Snipped from Wired.com.

Back in Feb. of 2007, Blog4Brains.com reported on a car company that is doing some radical things with the electric car. Well, it seems Tesla Motors caught the attention of someone else as well.

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Was Stewart right for blaming Cramer?

What is Collective Guilt? Can collective guilt be found in nature? Do the lemmings have a case of collective guilt when the entire group of lemmings commit “suicide” together? Was it collective guilt that caused massive suicide in the Jonestown Colony, via a toast of doctored Kool Aid?

Here’s a recent article called “Calif. lawmaker seeks apology for Chinese workers” that serves as a learning example about collective guilt in Californians:

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Snipped from HAARM.org.

This is hilarious and sad at the same time. These guys have made a parody of the conservative’s PR campaign to destroy any kind of real health reform.

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