The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
David Petraeus — Hero Celebrity By Michael Brenner (Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations) – Huffington Post – December 2, 2010 There is one celebrity with the makings of a national hero, someone who has the qualities that might carry him right into the White House. It is David Petraeus. He is almost universally …
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November 23, 2010 The Root Causes of the Defense Budget Mess Another Free Ride for the Pentagon? By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney11232010.html The Simpson-Bowles Deficit Commission will be reporting out its results in early December. We can expect that it will focus on domestic spending, especially entitlements, including Social Security. By the time the …
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Jim Sinclair on The Coming Depression Phi Beta Iota: A trusted gold source sent this along, with the observation that this has been brewing for a while. Anonymous said… All these articles are trying to convince us that gold is a good investment for the purposes of curbing inflation. In theoretically it is. But you …
Since the year 2000, when I watched in horror as Al Gore took the dive and played dead in Florida (the theft was exposed three months before the fact by Greg Palast writing for The Observer in the UK, he subsequently published The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization, and …
Charles R. Morris Forward to Future of Capitalism and GRIFTOPIA November 8, 2010 This book was flagged to my attention in the Comments section of my own review of Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, where my review includes the following quote that I share here: QUOTE (32): …
I want to put this somewhat intellectual blog posting into perspective. Below is a quote from Matt Taibbi’s new book, Griftopia-Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Spiegel & Grau, 2 November 2010). Click on the title of the book to read my full review. QUOTE (32): What has taken …
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Matt Taibbi 6 Star Game Changer….Maybe November 2, 2010 This is an extraordinary book, combining gifted insights and turns of phrase with serious research that has a point worth fighting for: Wall Street led by Goldman Sachs has ripped off the entire US economy, and they still have most people thinking that politics matters. It …
