The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
To the Editor: The Intelligence Community Group at LinkedIn is full of smart folks whose thinking either supports or complements the long-standing views of the Phi Beta Iota collective. Specifically, there is a general feeling that the U.S. Intelligence System is really morally and systematically broken. RW The U.S. Intelligence Community as the Land of …
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This is really disgusting. Chuck Published on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 by Truthdig.com Obama’s Fatal Corporate Addiction by Robert Scheer If it had been revealed that Jeffrey Immelt once hired an undocumented nanny, or defaulted on his mortgage, he would be forced to resign as head of President Barack Obama’s “Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.” But the …
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There is no question that the sudden emergence of the Arab Revolution caught the Obama Administration flatfooted. While it is easy to blame President Obama for being asleep at the switch, he is dependent on the professional government for information about the world — specifically, that provided by the $80 billion a year intelligence services. …
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Afghanistan: Almost 5,000 Taliban insurgents laid down their weapons or are moving toward doing so, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan General Petraeus said on 23 March. About 700 former Taliban have officially completed the steps to reintegrate into society, Petraeus said. He said another 2,000 insurgents are taking steps toward reintegration and …
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The below report in the Guardian makes three general points regarding the Tokyo Electric’s management operations at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor site: 1. Cost-cutting degraded safety procedures. 2. Collusion between industry and regulators. 3. Deferring decisions on how to permanently store nuclear waste. Thank god these problems do not occur in Amerika (sic). Chuck Spinney …
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The Pentagon Labyrinth on C-SPAN Mar 11, 2011 Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust | Mott House Three former, high-level Pentagon insiders take a critical look at how the Defense Department operates and where the money it receives goes. The three- Thomas Christie, Franklin Spinney and Pierre Sprey – are contributors to the book, The Pentagon …
This Saturday and Sunday (at 9:00 and 9:30, respectively) C-SPAN’s Book TV will run a discussion by three of the authors of The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It. The presentations and Q and A will give you insights on how our weapons are designed to perform poorly in actual combat …
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