The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Overstock.com vs. Goldman Sachs: A True David & Goliath Story For six years Overstock.com has waged a war to expose Wall Street mischief. We did not go looking for a fight, but our company was attacked, and we learned we were not alone: the same manipulation-for-profit tools that Wall Street had deployed against us had …
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Industrialized agriculture, and industrialized corruption in defense. Nobody is serious about creating safe, affordable, sustainable solutions for anything, from agriculture to defense. Antibiotic resistance is a common feature of Cargill Salmonella outbreaks Drew Falkenstein Food Poison Journal, 3 August 2011 Competition for Military Contracts Doesn’t Lower Costs Joshua Foust The Atlantic, 3 August 2011 Phi …
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True Cost is called by some a triple-bottom line (physical cost, ecological cost, social cost). Others talk about true cost to own (including all related fuels or batteries, toxic side effects etc), others talk about cradle to grave accounting to include complete recycling. Technically, true cost accounting prohibits negative external costs from being ignored. A …
From 2003, making the rounds now among the earnest. Product Description A study of national security and military strategy by Col. Chester Richards (USAF Ret.), suggests that ancient strategic wisdom may help solve the dilemma confronting the U.S. military: spending on defense exceeds that of any combination of potential adversaries, but the services still face …
Creating a Smart Nation–and a World Brain–demands the participation of all of the people all of the time.
More in follow-up to Chuck Spinney: An Aghan’s Angst Over Corruption… A fundamental understanding of the Pashtun would make evident the problem with election rigging in Afghanistan. As a tribal group, nobody is elected to serve as a leader. Thus, voting, regardless what the West thinks, is not something that most Pashtuns care about or …
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This op-ed was written by one of my closest friends, who happens to be an old fashioned Republican in the best sense of the term. Chuck Spinney Nice, France Borrowing and spending the GOP way The big deficit facing the U.S. is mostly Republican in origin, the Congressional Budget Office says. The Bush tax cuts …
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