The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Think, we should — with faith.
Major Shifts in Science Challenge Religions, and Especially Their Activists
“Pope Francis’ May 24, 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si, on the state of the earth’s environment and humanity’s responsibility for action, represents a growing transformational shift in the relationship between science, social justice, progressive secularism, and religious consciousness.
Continue reading “Yoda: Science – and Theology — Evolve Together [It Helps If Both Are Moral]”
How it happpened, how we finally caught it.
Volkswagen's appalling clean diesel scandal, explained
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In other words, Volkswagen wasn't able to produce diesel cars that had the ideal mix of performance, fuel economy, and low pollution. (Or, at least, they couldn't do this profitably.) So they “solved” this trade-off by sacrificing cleanliness and loosening the pollution controls. And they accomplished this via software designed to deceive regulators. This was wildly illegal, and they got caught.
Continue reading “Mongoose: Industrial Scale Cheating with Software — The Volkswagen Case Study”
Fortunes will be made on the land near the obvious new deep water port.
Lianyungang is the Missing Link That Completes the New Silk Road
While the information presented at the Summit was too extensive to list in full, the most important takeaway was that China’s elite have determined that Lianyungang will be the ultimate bridge in linking together the mainland and maritime portions of OBOR…
‘Nuclear war our likely future': Russia & China won't accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns
Key quote:
… the “price of world peace is the world’s acceptance of Washington’s hegemony.”
Continue reading “Michael Kearns: Absent US Change, Nuclear War Likely”
How to Make Millions by Selling War
by Ken Silverstein, Vice.com, September 17, 2015
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He's not uniquely rich or uniquely powerful or uniquely evil by the standards of the crowd he runs with, but it's worth looking at the life and times of Bruce Jackson to see how one maintains power in DC, and what one does with that power.
How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?
Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler
“Totrov Rules” and comment below the line.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Yuri Totrov's Rules for Outing US Spies”
Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian Nonlinear War Through Modern Chinese Doctrine
Victor R. Morris in Small Wars Journal, 17 September 2015
Unrestricted war is a war that surpasses all boundaries and restrictions. It takes nonmilitary forms and military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war of the future.
-Colonel Qiao Liang and Colonel Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted War, Beijing, 1998
“Gerasimov Doctrine” contains particular similarities to the Chinese doctrine outlined in Unrestricted Warfare published in 1999, and historical roots in previous Russian doctrine. Both strategies involve using proxies, or surrogates, to not only exploit vulnerabilities in low intensity conflict, but to also prepare for future operations, which may involve high intensity conflict. Other strategies involve applying both low and high tech asymmetrical means, and also engaging in several forms of war. For example, Unrestricted Warfare describes 13 forms of “total war” and methods to consciously mix “cocktails” on the battlefield, or to employ combinations of forms of warfare in order to find innovative and effective approaches.
