The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Things could be shaping up that way, even if past history says the program will march on unperturbed. If so, the inevitable is only being delayed. It is only a matter of time.
Even if the mainstream U.S. media has been late in coming to the story, the largest defense program in U.S. history is facing two critical events this coming week.
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This is one of the best critiques on neo-liberalism as an extreme ideology that I have read. It is long but well worth the investment in your time. On a personal note, I have long been offended by the neo-liberal hijacking of F.A. Hayek’s ideas, especially those on the relationship of central planning to the limits of information, which fit my empirical studies of the Pentagon's decision-making pathologies like a hand fits a glove. Yet, Pentagon spending is a subject that most neo-liberals, like Congressman Paul Ryan, refuse to countenance. Neo-liberals, led by Milton Freedman, have twisted Hayek’s ideas into an uber capitalist, free-market, quasi-religious dogma. Lehmann’s essay is an admirable evisceration of that extremism.
Chuck Spinney
Neoliberalism, the Revolution in Reverse
Chris Lehmann
The Baffler, No. 24, 2014
The neoliberal flight from public responsibility is actually a curiously instructive tale of strikingly other-than-intended consequences.
Royal Family granted new right of secrecy
The Prince and the Pedophile: Charles’ Connections to Pedophilia Networks
November 23, 2012 | By wblanks |
Second story repeated in full text below the fold.
Huh?
Did Pope Francis really say 2% of Catholic clergy are pedophiles?
Lauren Raab
Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2014
An interview that credits Pope Francis as saying about 2% of Roman Catholic clerics are pedophiles stirred controversy Sunday, as the Vatican sought to raise questions about the article's accuracy and others called on the pope to take more action on the issue.
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At a United Nations hearing this year, the Vatican said it had defrocked 848 priests over the last decade and ordered 2,572 to “live a life of prayer and penance” because of abuse allegations. There are about 414,000 Roman Catholic priests worldwide, according to the BBC; if 2% are pedophiles, that would be more than 8,000.
Margaret Thatcher ‘personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers
The Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a meeting with a rising star, who was tipped for promotion, and told him: “You have to clean up your sexual act”
The extraordinary claims. … go to the very heart of claims that there was an Establishment cover-up to protect politicians , judges and police officers involved in a sick paedophile network.
‘Paedophilia is natural and normal for males'
How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer conferences
EXTRACT
The statement that paedophilia is “natural and normal” was made not three decades ago but last July. It was made not in private but as one of the central claims of an academic presentation delivered, at the invitation of the organisers, to many of the key experts in the field at a conference held by the University of Cambridge.
It took 100 years to connect 1 billion places and 25 years to connect 5 billion people. Today, 85 percent of the world’s population has access to mobile commun…
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