The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Kim Philby, British double agent, reveals all in secret video
By Gordon Corera
The tape is of Kim Philby giving a secret lecture to the Stasi, the East German Intelligence Service, in 1981. It is the first time the ex-MI6 officer can be seen talking about his life as a spy from his recruitment to his escape.
How Austerity Has Crippled the European Economy – In Numbers
Thomas Fazi, Social Europe, 31 March 2016
Europe’s post-crisis response – consisting of a combination of fiscal austerity, neoliberal structural reforms and expansionary monetary policies – has unambiguously failed. In early 2016 – eight years after the outbreak of the financial crisis – the eurozone’s overall real GDP was still below the pre-crisis peak (March 2008). The Greek economy was 27.6 per cent smaller. Spain’s was 4.5 per cent smaller. Portugal’s was 6.5 per cent smaller. Even those countries with above-average eurozone growth were not performing very well: Germany, for example, was only 5.5 per cent larger than it was in March 2008, while France was only 2.7 per cent larger. Meanwhile, most of the world has returned to, or surpasses, pre-crisis GDP levels.
The Panama Papers, ‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
Mainstream Western journalism no longer even tries to apply common standards to questions about corruption. If you’re a favored government, there might be lamentations about the need for more “reform” – which often means slashing pensions for the elderly and cutting social programs for the poor – but if you’re a demonized leader, then the only permissible answer is criminal indictment and/or “regime change.”
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April 1-2, 2016 — Clinton's private email network part of private foreign policy/intelligence operation
A mere cursory glance at some of Hillary Clinton's emails yields what can only be described as a private foreign policy and intelligence operation. The operation involved Secretary of State Clinton, her personal State Department staff and outside consultants (including Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills), the Clinton Foundation (including Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton), former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Teneo, the global advisory firm established by Bill Clinton's former chief aide Doug Band and that employed Abedin as a consultant while she was also working for the State Department.
In relation to Bryan Dean Wright: CIA’s Problem – Subpar Spies I find it interesting to read what Bryan Dean Wright has written about the CIA and its recruitment of A and B students, especially since I published something very much like that in 2009 in the final chapter of my book, Cash on Delivery: CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos. The final chapter contains what I called Briggs’ Axiom, a theory I often described to colleagues in the 1980s and 1990s. Mr. Wright and I are in agreement.
Mr. Wright writes:
“The answer: “Well, think of the students that you knew in school. We can’t retain the ‘A’ or ‘B’ students… they eventually quit in frustration because of too many bad managers and too much bureaucracy. So… we look for the ‘C’ students now.”
The CIA had started hiring average.
Continue reading “Thomas Leo Briggs: CIA Subpar Spies Deja Vu”
Someone in Congress evidently wants an update.
The Article V Convention to Propose Constitutional Amendments: Current Developments, March 29, 2016
After more than 20 years of comparative inaction,the past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in and support for the Article V Convention alternative.Advocacy groups across a broad range of the political spectrum are pushing for conventions to consider various amendments, including a revival of the balanced budget amendment proposed in the 1970s -1980s; an interstate compact that could call a convention,propose, and prospectively ratify, a balanced budget amendment; an amendment or amendments to restrict the authority of the federal government; and an amendment to permit regulation of corporate spending in election campaigns, which would nullify parts of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
The Article V Convention to Propose Constitutional Amendments: Contemporary Issues for Congress, updated March 29, 2016:
This report identifies a range of policy questions Congress might face if an Article V Convention seemed imminent. Some of these include the following: what constitutes a legitimate state application? Does Congress have discretion as to whether it must call a convention? What legislative vehicle would be appropriate to call a convention? Could a convention consider any issue, or would it be limited to the specific issue cited in state applications? Could a “runaway” convention propose amendments outside its mandate? Could Congress choose not to propose a convention – approved amendment to the states? What role, if any, does the President have? What role would Congress have in the mechanics of a convention, including rules of procedure and voting, number and apportionment of delegates, funding and duration, service by Members of Congress, and other related questions?
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Vaxxed: How did they threaten Robert De Niro?
De Niro talked to Congressman about censored Vaxxed film
EXTRACT
The study actually revealed a connection between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and the onset of autism in young black boys—but that part of the study was censored. In fact, Thompson said, he and his colleagues sat in a room at the CDC, brought in a garbage can, and threw out those pages of research. That’s right. But Thompson kept copies of the pages. Congressman Bill Posey and a few other people have those pages.
