The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A righteous search that merits a faster more direct response.
As modified by Deb Temper of Six-Penny Graphics, a world-class book cover and publishing support graphics firm that works 24/7, this was the centerpiece of the back cover of ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (EIN, 2008).
“Many observed that 9-11 cost $500,000 to mount, and over $5 million to respond to. Since then the ratio has grown–mostly because of the corruption of US “decision-makers,” from 1:5 to more like 1:N. A three trillion dollar war for what? US “leaders” are not stupid. This is a repeat of Viet-Nam, whose primary purpose, never mind the 50,000 US and million Vietnamese dead, was to “churn” or use up the US military equipment so it would have to be bought new. iraq was complicated by the matching corruption in finance and health, causing the tri-fecta of national melt-downs. All is not lost–but before we can begin reconciliation and reconstruction, the truth must be on the table: a liar is a liar, a traitor is a traitor, a crime is a crime. The “system” is corrupt to the core. The only thing that will change that is a system that displaces it–the old corrupt system cannot be repaired or improved–it will continue to do the wrong things more expensively.”
It can now be revealed, with permission, that Retired Reader is Richard Wright.
Contributing Editor: Richard Wright
Simplicity always. plus the correct title (Spy for All Seasons)
Here is what several of you were looking for:
Review: A SPY FOR ALL SEASONS–My Life In The CIA
See Also:
Although the core postings appear, this search was so frequent today we thought to present the top three hits and a comment. First, the map of levees is the best way to identify the existing known flood risks. Everything has been predicated on both “average” flooding, and on no internal attacks against flood control infrastructure. Second, flooding has to be considered in terms of after-effects, including melt-downs of nuclear reactors, flood dissemination of nuclear and bio-chemical and radiological waste, flood impact on corroded chlorine containers, and so on. The USA is not ready. Government at every level has been terribly irresponsible for decades.
Graphic: US Counties Protected by Levees
Reference: Maps of the Post Flood Future Geography
Search: 2012 us safe zones map
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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Environmental Degradation (Other than Emissions)
Reference: WATER–Soul of the Earth, Mirror of Our Collective Souls
Simplicity matters. It also helps to not run on the name. Generally everything on this site bears on intelligence so that is a useless search term in this special context.
Search 1: Walter Dorn (16 Posts)
Search 2: United Nations intelligence (over 100 hits most not directly related)
Search 3: United Nations (over 100 hits slightly more focused)
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Dorn (under Top Authors Less Steele)
There was nothing on this site other than the flooding maps, and the long-running commentary on nuclear plants vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunami. Thank you for the search. The bottom lines for us are two:
1) Truth at any cost lowers all other costs
2) Vested interests cannot be trusted to tell the truth
Below is a map of US nuclear facilities highly vulnerable to “unpredicted” earthquakes and tsunamis.
Combine that with the previously posted maps of flooding outcomes and US counties dependent on levees to hold water back, and you have a magnified threat of both flooding and nuclear radiation.
Catastrophe occurs when planning is irresponsible. It is quite safe to say that the US Government has been terribly irresponsible for decades, lacking in both intelligence and integrity as well as faith in the common sense and good judgment of We the People.
We have no special knowledge on polar shifting, the change in magnetic fields, or related events. Our general speculative assumption is that 2012 will be a year of awakening, and that dramatic global disasters, if they occur, will be met by equally dramatic emergent collective intelligence. Government will decline substantially in size, revenue, and influence. Non-governmental organizations and civil societies, armed with open mind-sets and a predisposition to share information for the common good, will gradually become central to human decision-making across all issues. As Seth Godin and others point out, the human paradigm is shifting from competition to cooperation, from greed to civilization-building. The good in humanity is emergent, in our view.
