The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Evaluating the Grossness of Gross Domestic Product
Refugees Per Kiloton (RPK) as a missing indicator?
Refugees per Kiloton?
Nature of grossness
Refugees per Kiloton as one indicator of grossness?
Data sources on Refugees per Kiloton
Preliminary evaluation of Refugees per Kiloton
Investigative and media failure?
CROSS-CUTTING INTELLIGENCE ISSUES, AND MORE FROM CRS
A new report from the Congressional Research Service raises the possibility that polygraph testing of intelligence employees could be phased out in favor of “continuous evaluation” (CE), i.e. the automated monitoring of financial, criminal and other databases.
The notion was suggested in a CRS overview of selected intelligence policy issues, including budget management, the quality of analysis, big data, workforce diversity, global coverage, and transparency. The new CRS report, written by Anne Daugherty Miles, does not make recommendations, but instead presents a series of questions for congressional consideration, such as:
Continue reading “Steven Aftergood: CRS on Cross-Cutting Intelligence Issues”
Manufacturing consent in science: the diabolical twist
Predatory corporations who spray poisonous pesticides all over the world and cause birth defects need special protection and cover? Invent, overnight, and broadcast, a consensus that a basically harmless virus is the cause of those tragic defects. I can assure you there are many scientists who don’t, for a second, believe the Zika virus is the agent of destruction. But they are keeping their mouths shut now and rolling with the tide.
The Palestinian Question: Why the Two-State Solution is Kaput
Water and the Creeping Annexation of the West Bank
So Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank and its lock of the West Bank’s water resources will continue unabated, in part financed by tax deductible donations from the US, and propped up by increased military aid.
What Is the Minimum Investment Needed to Achieve Social Mobility?
For those without an inside track, high social/cultural skills are an essential foundation.
Long-time correspondent Bart D. (Australia) posed a profound question: what is the minimum investment (in time, money and effort) needed to ensure one's children have social mobility, i.e. a cultural/social passport to upper-middle class opportunities?
Reversing the Anthem of Europe to Signal Distress
Transcending crises of governance via reverse music and reverse speech?
Introduction
Reversal of music
Angelic versus Demonic music?
Doublespeak, reverse speech and Freudian slips?
Questionable denial and condemnation by authorities
Sonification of the European problematique and resolutique?
Symbolic public performance of the European Anthem in reverse?
References
