Month: February 2012

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Eagle: Jim Sinclair Discusses “Positive Economic News Psy-Op” And Fraudulent Economic Figures

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, General Accountability Office, IO Impotency, Office of Management and Budget

Jim Sinclair Discusses “Positive Economic News Psy-Op” And Fraudulent Economic Figures

In this interview, Ellis Martin speaks with Jim Sinclair about the “positive employment outlook” reported by the government and the media and the exuberance associated with it. Where do these numbers come from? Mr. Sinclair also has compelling advice for the listener regarding how to protect oneself from the ultimate endgame related to Quantitative Easing and the decline of the dollar. What is China's direct influence or input in QE 3? Is it in their best interests to prop up the dollar and the US economy? How relevent is the Yuan? Listen to another unedited interview.

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Eagle: Corporate Public Relations as Death Wave

03 Economy, 07 Health, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Impotency

 

DEADLY SPIN: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

Since Wendell Potter walked away from his executive position at a top health insurance company in May of 2008, he has worked tirelessly as an outspoken critic of corporate PR and the distortion and fear manufactured by America’s health insurance industry. It is a PR juggernaut that is bankrolled by millions of dollars, rivaling lobbying budgets and underwriting many “non-partisan” grassroots organizations. How would Potter know? He wrote many of the industry’s talking points himself.

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Right Livelihood Award Call for Nominations

Ethics
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Our new research intern Lovisa Lönegren joined the staff in January and is already busy answering questions from around the world regarding proposals for the 2012 Right Livelihood Awards.

Anybody can propose a person or an organization (to whom they are not closely related), so if you know someone who is worthy the Award, please let her know.

We are exited to receive many interesting proposals before the deadline on March 1, 2012.

Please follow our guidelines and feel free to ask Lovisa if something seems unclear.

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Theophillis Goodyear: Multi-Layered Bullshit as Fog of Illusion

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency, Misinformation & Propaganda
Theophillis Goodyear
The modern world has become a multi-strata layering of bullshit in the form of propaganda. The layers are so multiple and piled so deep that everyone seems to have forgotten where they put the truth. I was going to say that it's like a train of propaganda, where each individual car acquires mass from being linked to every other car. But even that understates it. Rather than a linear train of propaganda, it more like a network of propaganda that spreads out in every direction, creating a fog of illusion that even the best of us have difficulty completely seeing through.
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DefDog: Obama Outflups Romney, Loses Election?

06 Family, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency
DefDog

A Battle the President Can't Win

His decision on Catholic charities makes Romney's big gaffe look trivial.

What a faux pas, how inept, how removed from the essential realities of America. Yes, I'm referring to President Obama. But let's do Mitt Romney first.

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EXTRACT:

But the big political news of the week isn't Mr. Romney's gaffe, or even his victory in Florida. The big story took place in Washington. That's where a bomb went off that not many in the political class heard, or understood.

But President Obama just may have lost the election.

The president signed off on a Health and Human Services ruling that says that under ObamaCare, Catholic institutions—including charities, hospitals and schools—will be required by law, for the first time ever, to provide and pay for insurance coverage that includes contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization procedures. If they do not, they will face ruinous fines in the millions of dollars. Or they can always go out of business.

In other words, the Catholic Church was told this week that its institutions can't be Catholic anymore.

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Marcus Aurelius: Defense Cut “Impact Assessments”

Corruption, IO Impotency, Military
Marcus Aurelius

House Armed  Services Committee (HASC)

Impact Assessment

Executive Summary

Impact Assessment

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Powering Down: A decline in U.S. military might could upend the world order

Phi Beta Iota:  NOBODY is doing fact-based evaluations.  Senator Sam Nunn's words remain unheeded–there is no credible holistic threat assessment; there is no credible holistic strategy; there is no credible holistic force structure; and there are no credible holistic acquisition plans for actually getting to what should be a 450-ship Navy, a long-haul Air Force, A-10's long overdue for transfer to Army Aviation, and a Marine Corps that stops trying to be expeditionary everything and focuses instead on helping the US Navy create a 450-ship Navy as we have been advocating for over a decade.

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Richard Wright: Integrity? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Integrity!

Corruption, Military, Officers Call
Richard Wright

Integrity? We don't need no stinkin'integrity!

Precision Munitions Lessen Need for Close Air Support Plane: Schwartz Answers the A-10 Question

PENTAGON: One of the longest-running debates between the Air Force and the Army centers on close air support. Historically, the Air Force hates supplying CAS and doesn't like buying or maintaining the planes that do it. But the white scarf boys wouldn't let the Army do the job either, since it involved fixed-wing aircraft and shooting and that's what the Air Force does.

So when the Air Force announced it was scrapping a large chunk of the current A-10 Warthog fleet and the pilots who go with it — five squadrons worth — the Pentagon's back channels quickly filled with disgusted comments about how “there goes the Air Force again.” Every time they need to cut money from the budget the first thing they do is cut the A-10s, which have provided superb close air support ever since they started flying in the mid-70s, critics said. Two things make the A-10 especially fine at CAS: its amazing 30mmm cannon which can destroy a tank with ease; and the titanium bucket within which the pilot sits. The armored aircraft provides pilots with great protection, allowing them to be almost cavalier as they operate in dangerously kinetic environments.

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