The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Truth and Reconciliation to be Debated at United Nations
Ronda Hauben, 8 January 2014
The press conference held by Jordan’s Ambassador to the UN to introduce Jordan’s presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of January 2014 included a surprise proposal that distinguished it from the usual tradition of announcing the program of work for the Security Council for the month.(1)
The surprise was the announcement of an Open Debate planned for the Council meeting on January 29.
God bless Secretary Gates! He is a man of honor, integrity and competence as well as a good judge of character. During one of the critical periods, Iraq surge if memory serves, he had heard about what my offices does and came down to meet us personally and take pictures with us. For the duration of his watch, DoD was well led.
Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama’s leadership in ‘Duty’
By Bob Woodward
Washington Post, January 7
In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Bob Gates, Tough on the Record”
Academic Zionist agents in US go public
It seems that the American Studies Association’s (ASA) boycott resolution vote has rattled the Zionist cages.
They have proved that Veterans Today was right with our claim that academic espionage was one of the key areas where Israeli intelligence has invested major resources for a long time.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP), commonly Presidents’ Conference, has been chosen by the Israeli lobby to lead the counterattack against the ASA historic resolution reported by Press TV last week.
World media described the resolution breakthrough as a sign that the tipping point toward a full Israel boycott was getting closer.
This should generate a lively debate.
SNAPSHOT: Ground the Air Force
Revising the Future of Flight
Robert Farley
Foreign Affairs, December 18, 2013
ROBERT FARLEY is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, founder of the blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money, [1] and the author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force [2].
The United States needs air power, but it does not need an air force.
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Arguments Mount to Terminate the US Air Force”
Journalism *is* curation: tips on curation tools and techniques
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ in his talk to employees at the Washington Post said: “People will buy a package … they will not pay for a story.” Previously that package was limited to what your staff produced, and wire copy. But as more content becomes digitised, it is possible to combine more content from a wider variety of sources in a range of media – and on any one of a number of platforms.
Read illustrated post with links.
Big Banks Are Manipulating EVERY Market to the Tune of Trillions of Dollars
RBS Pays $600 Million for Manpulating Interest Rates … But Big Banks Are Manipulating EVERY Market to the Tune of Trillions of Dollars
Bloomberg reports today:
Information Black Holes: Autonomy and Its Value Proposition
I follow two or three LinkedIn groups. Believe me. The process is painful. On the plus side, LinkedIn’s discussions of “enterprise search” reveal the broken ribs in the body of information retrieval. On the surface, enterprise search and content processing appear to be fit and trim. The LinkedIn discussion X-ray reveals some painful and potentially life-threatening injuries. Whether it is marketing professionals at search vendors or individuals with zero background in information retrieval, the discussions often give me a piercing headache.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Information Black Holes + Findability”
