The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
EUROPOL Changes in modus operandi of Islamic State terrorist attacks
PDF (8 Pages): 160125 ECTC report changes_in_modus_operandi_of_is_in_terrorist_attacks
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For nearly 15 years Jim B. Tucker, associate psychiatry professor at the UVA Medical Center's Division of Perceptual Studies, has been investigating claims made by children, usually between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, who say they've had past lives.The children are sometimes able to provide enough detail about those lives that their stories can be traced back to an actual person—rarely famous and often entirely unknown to the family—who died years before.
Muhammad Yunus on How to Change the World: Do the Reverse
Everything we have done is the reverse of conventional. They go to the city, we go to the village. They go to men, we go to women. They say people should come to the bank, we say the bank should go to the people. They say you need to be job seekers, we say job creators. They say business is about maximizing profit, we say forget about profit, all we want to do is solve problems.
The White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists. Here’s Why They’d #Fail.
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept, 20 January 2016
Western Russianists Miss their Mark on the Kremlin’s Near East Policy
Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is telling that there is a real lack of Russian specialists in the United States. The gap in American understanding of the Kremlin is based on an uninformed and a real lack of comprehension of Russian politics and culture especially with the real concepts of Rodina or Otechestvo and how they push Gosudarstvo as a soulful triad. In addition, there are complaints from US, and NATO officials, that America’s depth of knowledge of Russia is sorely missing. Gone are the days of those individuals well trained in Russian language, concepts, culture, identity, and, most importantly, security concepts and protocols up to including PhDs.
Deadly Interactions
EXTRACT: There are two significant roadblocks [to defeating ISIS]. The first is the Saudi government, which is pouring billions of dollars around the world into a campaign promoting its own Salafist approach to Islam. This has produced thousands of determined Salafist youth, the finest candidates for ISIS recruiters. The second roadblock is the political turmoil in the region, which can be blamed at least in part on the support the West has offered undemocratic leaders in the Middle East, under whose cruel and unjust rule Muslim people have suffered for decades. Terrorist organizations point out this “hypocrisy” and use it to persuade new recruits to embrace their violent regimes. PDF (9 Pages): Deadly_Interactions_ISIS_Turkey_Syria
