The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Should We Talk to Terrorists? (15 July 2010)
Talking to Groups That Use Terror (USIP, 2011, PDF 105 Pages)
Phi Beta Iota: Both the USA and Israel used terror tactics to achieve their original independence from British dominion. Terrorism is a tactic, nothing more. To demonize it is to betray one's substitution of ideology for intelligence.
Phi Beta Iota: The world is in an interregnum, between “rule by secrecy” and lies from power as the norm, and a very ugly baby Web 4.0 in which bottom-up truth struggles to emerge. We will have a great deal of baby poop to deal with, but over time, public intelligence in the public interest will find its edge, and truths that shock publics into extreme action will emerge. Below is are a few extracts from a very sharp and ably illustrated story, and one expert author's evaluation of that story. Provided for information, “sharing our confusions.” WARNING NOTICE: This story should be read in conjunction with the recent Pentagon declarations that cyber-attacks will be considered a declaration of war. An Israeli virus in US nuclear control systems (attributed to Iran of course), with or without the help of the US Government, could be used to justify World War III starting with an attack on Iran and “precision” attacks on Pakistani nuclear facilities. We believe Israel is “all in” at this point; and we believe President Obama and Congress have lost all semblance of control over the U.S. military-industrial-secret intelligence complex.
Jim Stone Freeland Journalist
Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?
Fukushima may in fact have been caused by an act of war under the cover of an environmental disaster.
The Digital Citizen Project builds upon the new digital capabilities of television broadcasting and the Internet’s advances in social engagement, to bring an unprecedented degree of citizen participation to news programming for the 2012 election period. The project is premised on the belief that, when offered the chance to appear in media as “informed citizens,” a large number of people will rise to the challenge.
How it Works: Digital Citizen 2012 is a cross-platform and converged media series that seamlessly connects people using social and mobile applications, to television programming of the 2012 campaign. Using well-established online engagement tools, public participants contribute video, audio, text and still images of themselves to the station’s website, stating their opinions and posing questions. Initially, the online community will vet contributions. Producers will join in, to assure the inclusion of representative groups in this process and to track contributors whose posts are popular among the community. Utilizing the digital capabilities of modern studio production equipment, a significant number of the pre-recorded contributor questions and comments will appear on the live programs.
A much smaller number of contributors, whose articulate positions prove popular with the community, will be offered the opportunity to appear live via webcam on the TV program. These participants will be required to take part in a carefully designed online facilitation process that bolsters their arguments with facts, and introduces them to others with different opinions. These “informed citizens” will then be able to speak directly with journalists, experts and candidates during the programs.
The Illustrated 2011 Hurricane Forecast
— By Julia Whitty
Mother Jones, Wed Jun. 1, 2011
Compare that to the average during the 50 years between 1950 and 2000:
See Also:
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Climate Change
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Environmental Degradation (Other than Emissions)
McKinney Leads DIGNITY Delegation of Independent Journalists to Libya on Fact-Finding Mission
1 June 2011
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – Today, independent journalists from across the United States departed on a truth-telling, fact-finding mission to Libya. This coincides with what was supposed to have been a debate in Congress on U.S. involvement in the war against Libya, but the debate got sidelined due to the fact that the legislation requiring a pullout by the U.S. could actually have passed. Both Democratic and Republican leadership are responsible for pulling the bill at the last minute.
Al Jazeera film footage shows that Western soldiers have their “boots on the ground” in Libya overstepping authority granted by the United Nations Security Council for action in Libya. Every day that President Obama contributes to the military action against Libya, he tests the United States Congress and defies the United States Constitution and the War Powers Act which limit Presidential acts of war, subject to authorization by the U.S. Congress.
Incredibly, in what yet may prove to be another act beyond the mandate of the United Nations Security Council Resolution, NATO extended its operations in Libya for another 90 days.
Because the public has become increasingly unable to rely on embedded media to tell the American people the “whole truth and nothing but the truth,” the DIGNITY Delegation will shed rare light on NATO's actions inside that country.
According to some estimates, the American people and the global community were lied to 935 times by Administration officials and the media in the lead-up to the Iraq War. As Aeschylus said, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” The DIGNITY Delegation is expected to make daily reports while on the ground of the ongoing NATO actions in the country.
For more information please contact: dondebar@optonline.net
Background: One of the most powerful alliances in modern propaganda history was formed between Israeli militant Jews and the extreme right-wing evangelicals. A joint project to develop the perfect “red calf” is just the tip of the iceberg.
Discussion: There are weak but clear signals that Israel is kicking off a “final” or “scorched earth” propaganda campaign with the common theme of labeling both the Arabs and the Chinese as “Nazis,” (and the Iranian's as “pivotal” creators of 9/11 attack), of cancelling Barack Obama's “contract” to be the lead actor at the White House, of making it clear to the Republican Presidential candidates that the nomination will be channeled via Israel, and–saddest of all–that Glenn Beck is now Netanyahu's bitch. The sidebar is Iran, it's nuclear program, and the very high probability that the US Pentagon–regardless of what Barack Obama thinks or wants–will engage in an illegal offensive action against Iran, “over-ruling” Obama just as they did with the Bin Laden Show, but pointing out that in the face of the collapsing economy, starting a nuclear war over Iran is his last best shot at a second term. We don't make this stuff up. The good news is that Roger Ailes has fired Glenn Beck, and is thinking deeply about the lack of a Republican bench, strategy, or even coherent philosophy upon which to base a campaign for the Presidency.
Egyptian Nazi Party Formed (New American, 1 June 2011)
Neo-Nazi websites find home in US (jewish world, 1 June 2011)
The Persecution Of Jews In Iraq (neon tommy, 1 June 2011)
China is Going Nazi (Power and Control, 28 May 2011)
Beck: ‘Arab Spring' Spawns Nazis? (Fox News, 26 May 2011)
Defectors Claim Iranian Role in 9/11 Attacks (IPT News, 20 May 2011)
Court Filings Assert Iran Had Link to 9/11 Attacks (Turn to Islam, 20 May 2011)
Lawsuit Reportedly Alleges Iranian Complicity in 9/11 Attacks (Fox News, 20 May 2011)
Glenn Beck Compares Obama And The Left To 1930s Nazi Appeasers (mediaite, 18 May 2011)
Beck Goes To Jerusalem (The American Conservative, 17 May 2011)
China Official Eyes Nazi ‘Database' Idea (The Tibet Post, 22 February 2011)
TEDxMarin – John Perry Barlow – The Right to Know
16:56
Phi Beta Iota: This is classic Barlow, totally new fresh look, a moving and deeply engaging personal monologue on where we are, where we are going.
“Thought is not a noun to be owned, it is a verb, an action.”
“Copyright is the wrong model for monetizing thinking.”
See Also:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1992 Barlow (US) Information Wants to Be Free
Review: The Virtual Community–Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
