The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh?
‘Being homeless is better than working for Amazon'
Nichole Gracely has a master’s degree and was one of Amazon’s best order pickers. Now, after protesting the company, she’s homeless
I am homeless. My worst days now are better than my best days working at Amazon.
PDF (28 Pages): 2009 Intelligence Failure by Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack Levy
The literature generally traces major intelligence failures to an ambiguous threat environment compounded by the adversary’s strategic deception, to collective mindsets and individual cognitive biases, and to familiar organizational pathologies. This study aimed to shed more light on the neglected subject of the role of conscious action in the study of intelligence failure, with a primary emphasis on “intelligence to please,” organizational restructuring, and insubordination motivated by a we-know-best attitude.
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Propaganda Has Triumphed over Journalism, and the Consequences Are Enormous
We need a press that teaches the young to be agents of people, not power.
EXTRACT
The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an “invisible government”. It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
This is a link to a well done video providing an update on Ebola and, more particularly, the misinformation and obfuscation being promulgated by the CDC, et al.
There's a lawsuit against 92 oil-related companies to pay to restore the land they have helped erode in Louisiana which will get worse if something is not done.
Being noticed in Europe.
Video: We need to talk about Sandy Hook
Documentary blows the lid off suspected Sandy Hook cover-up
A loose coalition of concerned citizen journalists known as the Independent Media Solidarity have produced an in-depth, well-researched documentary regarding the countless anomalies, inconsistencies and discrepancies evident in the Sandy Hook school shooting investigation.
Five readers sent me this article this morning and told me they felt it perfectly described their lives, and their sense of entrapment. I just hate this trend, but facts are facts.
Economist: I’ve crunched the numbers, and the American Dream is dead
“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden,” Clark said. “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility, is because it is shattering people’s dreams.”
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