The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We are lied to about what is being done to plastic, and our government is unethical and ignorant about what can be done to convert plastic into fuel.
How the war on terrorism became a business model.
By Mike Lofgren
Washington Monthly, March/April/May 2015
EXTRACT
The syndrome the Bush administration created in Iraq was what former Pentagon critic Chuck Spinney has called a “self-licking ice cream cone”: the measures to fight the war on terrorism guaranteed more terrorists, which in turn guaranteed the agencies more money to fight the war on terrorism. The same process was at work with respect to torture and drone strikes. It is a great business model for contractors and bureaucratic empire builders, but far less favorable as a national survival strategy.
Oil and Military Intervention: Are the Conspiracy Theorists Right?
The probability that an “oil-thirsty” country will intervene in a civil war in an oil-producing country is over 100 per cent greater than the probability that an oil-exporting country will intervene in a civil war in a country that lacks oil resources.
As presented to the workshop on Open Power, Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland OR, on 28 February 2015.
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America’s Military Power in a Steep Decline
EXTRACT
If you want to know what is wrong about the entire approach to our nation’s military needs, consider that since 2009 when Obama took office, the Pentagon’s civilian workforce has grown about 7% to almost 750,000, while active-duty military personnel have been cut by approximately 8%. At the same time, dozens of military-equipment and weapons programs have been canceled, including a new Navy cruiser, a new search-and-rescue helicopter, the F-22 first-generation fighter, the C-17 transport aircraft, missile defense and the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle. We are not prepared to fight a war and now you know why.
As presented to the workshop on Open Power, Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland OR, on 28 February 2015.
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Steven Slick is former NSC Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform at the White House (2005-2009).
The Intelligence Studies Essay #1: Steve Slick on Lessons that NCTC Holds for CTIIC
CTIIC: Learning from the Choices and Challenges that Shaped the National Counterterrorism Center
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