The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Best Online Video Content Curated Into 30′ Thematic Programs: Pluto.TV
Pluto.tv is a new web service which curates the best video clips available online by organizing content coming from YouTube and many other video sharing sites into thematic programs of 30 minutes each. The interface is very similar to the one utilized by program guide viewers on standard cable TV. Pluto.tv offers already more than 100 thematic video channels all curated by human beings.
My comment: An effective approach to surface great video content while delivering it in a familiar and consumable format. Available also as an app for iOS and Android. Free to use.
Try it out now: http://pluto.tv
October 9, October 30, November 13 and December 4; 2013.
Columbia Law School in association with Software Freedom Law Center
From approximately 17:11 in NSA Spying talk 3 of 4 by Prof. Eben Moglen, a presentation sponsored by the Software Freedom Law Center of the Columbia Law School.
“The anonymity of reading is the central, fundamental guarantor of freedom of the mind. Without anonymity of reading there is no freedom of the mind, and there is literally slavery.”
This is at 6:35 from part 4:
“Collectively, we are trying to save the freedom of humanity and democracy, which cannot be otherwise saved. As we have seen, pervasive relentless surveillance destroys freedom of thought. And without freedom of thought, all other freedoms are merely privilege, conceded by government.”
Part I: Westward the Course of Empire
Part III: The Union, May it Be Preserved
Written Manifesto: Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy
We are in what is actually an amazing political situation; one that is very dangerous for a democracy. Neither conservatives nor social progressives have any respect for the political class, and a vast majority see them as corrupt whores for special interests.
Americans Say 75 Percent of Politicians Are Corrupted, 70 Percent Use Political Power to Hurt Enemies
EMILY EKINS – reason.com
Todd Pierce has produced a tour de force that is crucially important to your appreciation of the increasing possibility of Cold War II.
Related subjects not discussed include (1) the role of domestic politics in shaping the systematic expansion of NATO in violation of our promises to Gorbachev as a quid pro quo for ending the first Cold War and (2) the role of shoveling money to the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex in the shaping the domestic politics of contemporary militarism.
These issues in no way detract from the importance of Todd's message; I only mention them because they are also central to rise of a peculiar form of 21st Century American Militarism that violates all the criteria of a sensible grand strategy.
On a personal note: as one who laughing dismissed Wolfowitz's draft Defense Planning Guidance when it was leaked to the New York Times in 1992 as the inconsequential divagations of a troglodyte moron, I stand corrected.
Chuck Spinney
‘We’re All Cheneyites Now’
In late 2008, when President Obama opted more for “continuity” than “change” — and ceded control over much of his foreign policy to hawkish “rivals” — he locked in many of Dick Cheney’s neocon theories that trampled constitutional principles, as retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce explains.
By Todd E. Pierce, Consortium News, 1 April 2014
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Todd Pierce on Cheneyism — Are We the New Nazis?”
By Johan Galtung
Transnational.org, 3 April 2014
Depends, of course, on the criteria. A state has an inside towards its citizens, and an outside toward the state system. Depends on domestic and foreign policy, in other words. That means it can fail in two ways, by not catering to its citizens and by not coming to terms with other states. Actually the two are closely related as often pointed out: a regime (running the state) may compensate for failure at home by victories abroad. And, conversely, compensate for failures abroad by taking good care of its citizens. And, success at home used to mobilize grateful citizens for patriotic wars abroad.
America, or the USA rather, at present does not take good care of its citizens. A recent study cited in Nation of Change, More Evidence That Half of America Is in or Near Poverty, 24 March 2014, by Paul Buchheit: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that an average family of three needs $48,000 to meet basic needs, very close to the median family household income of $51,000. Since the 1950s the food costs have doubled, housing costs tripled, medical costs are six times higher, and college tuition eleven times–four key basic needs. Food, housing, health care, child care, transportation and taxes consume very close to the median income–not counting college education–hence, “half of America is in or near poverty”.
International Space Station Commander Opens Up About His UFO Sighting In Space
Leroy Chiao, commander of the International Space Station in 2005 recently opened up about his UFO sighting from space. They were 230 miles above the Earth, and traveling at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour when Chiao spotted a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). Chiao told the Huffington post:
