The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent
Paul Solman
PBS Newshour, 6 July 2013
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Paul Craig Roberts: US Jobs Report Half Truth (New Crummy Jobs) Half Lies (Those Not Counted)
By David Ignatius
Washingtonpost.com, July 5, 2013
For an illustration of why the federal government has become so unmanageable, consider the Air Force's attempt last year to cut its budget by retiring unneeded warplanes. This sensible policy ran into a shredder — largely because of the political clout of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve.
Governors united across party lines to protest the potential loss of their pet C-130s and other planes. Members of Congress lined up behind the potent lobbying pressure of the Guard and the reserves. The result: The Air Force was ordered not to make the cuts it thought were best for the nation’s defense, and it instead had to retain scores of planes it wanted to retire.
Read full article. Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Reserve C-130's as Poster Child for Strategic Dishonesty”
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3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so
In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed.
When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government's collection of Americans' phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief.
Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe belong to a select fraternity: the NSA officials who paved the way.
VIDEOS AT SOURCE — all text below the line.
Continue reading “Mini-Me: Three Pre-Snowden NSA Whistle-Blowers “WE TOLD YOU SO””
Here is some good news and some bad news. More jobs were created, but they are generally low level jobs, and 53 per cent of adult Americans still don't have jobs. We cannot have a prosperous democracy when over half the adults don't have secure full-time employment.
Only 47% of Adults Have Full-Time Job
MIKE FLYNN – Breitbart
EXTRACT:
Of the 144 million Americans employed last month, only 116 million were working full-time. Friday's report showed that 58.7% of the civilian adult population of 245 million was working last month. Only 47% of Americans, however, had a full-time job.
Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.
Do you remember the promise of the New Economy that was going to replace the lost “dirty fingernail” manufacturing jobs with innovative highly paid New Economy jobs? Well, the promise was just another deception from the elites who have stolen Americans’ future.
For the umpteenth consecutive month and year, the June BLS payroll jobs report (released on July 5) shows that the US economy has created no such jobs. The same old tired categories account for the same old lowly paid new domestic service jobs.
Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who’s Worse – A Visual Guide
Privacy: If you were to compare the evil, reprehensible Stasi to the NSA side by side in a visual comparison, who’s the worse surveillance hawk? The people over at OpenDataCity have put together a nice visual guide with astonishing results. We tend to think of Stasi-scale surveillance as the epitome of evil surveillance, and have completely lost track of what today’s governments are doing to their people.
Continue reading “Rickard Falkvinge: NSA is Stasi Scaled Global + Naked NSA RECAP”
Linked below are two important essays on the Egyptian coup. In the first, Esam Al-Amin, one of the most astute observers of the Arab Spring, provides a thorough background on the Egyptian politics, the Muslim Brotherhood's litany of mistakes, and the emerging role of Islamic parties in the evolving thrust toward democracy in the Arab world, not to mention the counterrevolution. Note particularly Al-Amin's concluding remarks (highlighted).
The second by Barry Lando is short but excellent analysis of the Egyptian deep state and the pervasive economic influences of its military. The nature of the deep state (a term used by Turks as well as Egyptians) is very important to understanding politics in Egypt but also, one could argue, to an appreciation of the peculiar nature the emerging American variant, as revealed by the NSA surveillance scandal, not to mention the increasingly unaccountable power of the military – industrial – congressional complex (MICC).
Chuck Spinney
Bastia, Corsica
In Egypt the Military is Supreme
