Reference: Reforming the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) Texto Completo Para El Uso de Google Traductor

PDF (6 Pages) See Also: Inter-American Defense College (English) 2013 Robert Steele on Healing the Americas with an Open Source Agency — and Integrity; Dicho Sobre la Curacion de las Américas con una Agencia de Todo Abierto – y la Integridad Por debajo de la linea: versión completa para el uso de Google Traductor Abaixo …

Chuck Spinney: Pivotng to China — Criminally Insane, Business as Usual

The attached report by Greg Jaffe in the Washington Post (from 1 August 2012) is an excellent case study of the inside-the-beltway networking by the players in the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC).  Jaffe shows these networks build a consensus to keep defense spending high when wars end and a terrifying peace dividend …

Chuck Spinney: Afghan Fraud, Permanent War, VERY Expensive – Robert Steele: $2 Trillion a Year for DoD is Criminally Insane

Obama may want out of Afghanistan, but he is under to pressure to stay, and the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) still has a budgetary interest in maintaining perpetual war, be it cold or hot ( for reasons I explained here). The bloom is off the Karzai rose (as Amy Davidson explained in her 11 Jan …

Berto Jongman: Shadow Banking & Tax Loopholes – With Comment by Robert Steele on Integrity & Automated Transaction Payment Tax

Beyond Regulators’ Grasp How Shadow Banks Rule the World By Martin Hesse and Anne Seith Spiegel, 11/14/2012 Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to …

Graphic: Automated Payment Transaction (APT) Tax

SHARE THIS WITH TINY URL  “APTNow”:  http://tinyurl.com/APTNow Dummy Version:  Generates $4 trillion a year without borrowing and allowing the elimination of ALL other taxes beginning with personal income taxes.  Allows for the recapitalization of our labor pool, our domestic infrastructure, and our Department of Defense (450-ship Navy, long-haul Air Force, air-liftable Army, Marines back on …

Chuck Spinney: USA Elections 2012 – Three Snapshots Right, Left, & Neither – Bring On the Wrecking Crew (Andre Barnett, the Reform Party, and the Electoral Reform Act of 2012)

TWO-PARTY THEATER — Puppets to the Oligarchs High Stake Outcomes Over Non-Issues Oligarchs at the Gate PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, Counterpunch, 14 August 2012 The election of the next puppet president of the “world’s only superpower” is about two and one-half months off, and what are the campaign issues?   There aren’t any worthy of the …

John Steiner: Monsanto Nation – Worst Farm Bill Ever?

Worst Farm Bill Ever! Tell Congress to Fix It — And No Secret Farm Bills! What’s wrong with the U.S. House of Representative’s version of the Farm Bill? $16.1 billion in cuts to food assistance eliminates the Organic Certification Cost Share Program tens of billions in corporate welfare for the largest commodity crop growers, insurance …