
The long history of Israel gaming the ‘Iranian threat'
Years before his recent grandstanding in Congress, Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders conjured a threat where one previously didn’t exist

The long history of Israel gaming the ‘Iranian threat'
Years before his recent grandstanding in Congress, Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders conjured a threat where one previously didn’t exist

Sigh. I was not going to comment on David Patraeus gross dereliction of duty but several colleagues are totally pissed off and they are correct to be angry. Here are a mix of supposition and fact along with my conclusions on this sorry disgrace to the Republic. HOWEVER, I conclude this is not about Patraeus — many others should be indicted along with him and many others have committed high crimes and misdemeanors that exhonerate him in relative terms.
UPDATED to integrate specific observations from IDENS A-C.
UPDATED to add key paragraphs from Marcy Wheeler at SALON and Ray McGovern.
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Patraeus-Mossad

Gen. Wesley Clark: “ISIS Got Started With Funding From Our Closest Allies”
EXTRACT
Far from a spontaneously-arising root-of-all-evil organization, at least according to General Wesley Clark, ISIS was created and funded by our “closest allies.” As the General said: “ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies… to fight to the death against Hezbollah.” Which friends and allies, he did not say. But he did suggest that it has become a “Frankenstein monster.” Read more.
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Investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society.
Project Veritas is the most effective non-profit on the national scene, period.

In charge of truth? Google considers ranking sites on facts, not popularity
Google is considering putting itself in charge of online truth, in order to assist users in an age of information overload. The web giant would rank search results based on each site’s ‘truth score' instead of its popularity level. Read more.

Detailed overview of the military-industrial complex think tanks used to skew policy toward military spending and elective wars.
Meet The Big Wallets Pushing Obama Towards A New Cold War
Phi Beta Iota: Beyond this “lite” level of subversion lie banks and the cabal on top of the banks for whom war, human trafficking, drugs, money laundering, and pedophilia are all part of the “grease” for how they do business.

IBM: Think Big, Harder, Slower
I read “IBM Says Cloud, Mobile, and Data Businesses Will Reach $40 Billion by 2018.” The write up reports that IBM has some “strategic imperative.” I assumed that sustainable revenue growth and healthy profits were important. Well, maybe.
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