The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I asked my good friend Marshall Auerback, an investment advisor and lawyer by training and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, to evaluate Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s claim that TARP has been a stunning success. Geithner made this claim in a 10 October op-ed in the Washington Post, entitled, “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tackles …
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Surprise — The Very Dark Side of U.S. History Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the “good guys” spreading “democracy” and “liberty” around the world. It just ain’t so. October 8, 2010 Peter Dale Scott, Robert Parry / Consortium News Alter.Net Editor’s Note: Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as …
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The below article in Defense News explains how, in Loren Thompson’s words, the Pentagon is trying to embark on a “very important breakthrough” in its effort to determine how much weapons “should” cost. Thompson also expressed concern that the Pentagon does not have the right technical skills to make “should cost” happen. Thompson’s suggestion that …
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The APT Tax Instead of personal income tax, corporate income tax, state tax, fuel tax, capital gains tax, gift tax. estate tax, excise tax, sales tax One very low universal tax Automatically and Immediately Collected No Tax Returns, No Lobbying for Special Interests, No Special Deductions Is it possible to have a system of taxation …
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Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers ASHLEE VANCE September 21, 2010 EXTRACT 1: But Oracle’s annual takeover of San Francisco pales against its larger ambitions — to supply just about all the technology, software and hardware, that businesses might need. This sweeping agenda has rattled the nerves of customers, who fear that Oracle has …
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Maker Faire Africa is a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and creation. Here you will find the Makers who showed their work at the 2010 event in Nairobi Kenya. Work ranges from time saving devices for agriculture to alternative energy sources from design with recycled objects to social media applications for mobile phones. Per maker …
Quantum Cryptography Breached With Lasers Using lasers to blind quantum cryptography photon detectors, Norwegian computer scientists were able to obtain a copy of a secure key without leaving any trace of their presence. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek September 8, 2010 07:00 AM Norwegian computer scientists have perfected a laser-based attack against quantum cryptography systems …
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