The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
5 Overlooked Stories (CSM) 1. Stuxnet 2. TARP is Cheap 3. Common School Standards 4. Rise of Natural Gas 5. Twilight of the Desktop 20 Hopeful Stories (YES! Magazine) 1. Climate Crisis Response Takes a New Direction 2. Wikileaks Lifts the Veil 3. Momentum is Building for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons …
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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) was created to examine how the terrorist attacks of September 2001 could have occurred and what could be done to prevent future attacks. Among other things the Commission recommended that there should be a National Intelligence Director who would have “two main areas …
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2011: A Brave New Dystopia truthdig, Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Chris Hedges The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive …
From Virtual Secretary of Defense Purpose The purpose of this memorandum is to establish priorities for my strategic objectives through 2012 and pending the concurrence of a new president with a proper staff, 2020. There is no such thing as strategic guidance for one year. This document informs without directing anyone. Intent My intent is …
REMINDER: Environmental Degradation, not Climate Change, is High-Level Threat #3. Climate Change is less than 10% of that, and within Climate Change, mercury and sulfer are more important than carbon. Furthermore, it is not possible to address any one threat without addressing the other nine (e.g. #1 Poverty) with harmonized policies from Agriculture to Water, …
Be the Change: Save a Life ABC News kicks off year-long global health care series Friday, Dec. 17 at 10pm eastern/9pm central. “20/20 ABC starts a weekly show about the Design Revolution.” Tonight: Stanford’s Extreme Affordability Program showcased: http://abcn.ws/f16Dq9 Thanks to those posting to the Out of Poverty Twitter feed Also see: + How the …
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The word ‘slavery’ often conjures brutal images of a long since vanquished historic project, but its practice, more commonly and legally referred to as human trafficking, continues to thrive in every corner of the globe – making it the world’s second largest criminal industry. By Cassandra Clifford for ISN Insights People are comparatively cheaper than …
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