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2011/11/082011/11/08

Winslow Wheeler: Military Spending versus Competence

Washington Post Joins Hysterical Defense Budget Rhetoric Center for Defense Information, 7 November 2011 Monday, November 7, the Washington Post editorial board published its take on the extreme rhetoric the country has been hearing on the defense budget since Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta starting talking about the “doomsday mechanism” that would reduce defense spending. …

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2011/11/022011/11/02

Review: The Change I Believe In

Katrina Vanden Heuvel 4.0 out of 5 stars At full reading, disappointing, October 30, 2011 After a full reading: Disappointing. Some authors, George Will comes to mind, do well with their recycled Op-Ed columns. I’ve reduced this to four stars because it just does not add up for me. At least the price was right. …

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2011/11/01

DefDog: Afghan Surge Flops, Viet-Nam Deja Vu

More evidence, as if we needed it, of the lack of integrity of this administration….. New Afghan War Plan Concedes the Surge Fell Short Spencer Ackerman WIRED, 1 November 2011 As the Obama administration winds down its troop surge in Afghanistan, it’s adopted a new political strategy for ending the war. And that new strategy …

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2011/10/222011/10/22

Graphic: Patterns of Public Debt Burden 1929-2011

Source: Email from Chuck Spinney

2011/10/22

Graphic: National Debt Burden 1929 – 2011

Source: Email from Chuck Spinney

2011/10/192011/11/09

Directory (List) About #OWS Occupy Wall Street

This is a selective directory of items from the Rolling Update. Day to day stories are not included. Use the Rolling Update for current snap-shot, use this Directory to think about OWS in deeper terms. Updated 9 Nov 2011 0900 EST Hottest New Items Revised Statement of Demand (3.4) and Revised Electoral Reform Act of …

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2011/10/182011/10/18

Mini-Me: Iranian (US?) Plot Continues to Unravel UPDATE

Hmmmm. Can you spell unethical idiocy? AT BEST, the Iranian Liberation Nut-Jobs. AT WORST, another Israeli false flag operation. In the middle, the usual out-of-control lunatic covert action wanna-bees. Robert Steele adds: if and when this becomes fully exposed, it will qualify as a “precipitant” of revolution, showing the public with stark immediacy the degree …

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