The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hardware Über Alles in the Spendagon (Note to Readers, the following essay is a revised version of one that appeared in Time Magazine’s Battleland blog found at this link.) For a good example of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex’s (MICC’s) value system — which is hardware before ideas and people — read this New York Times column by Nicholas …
UPDATE 3: Brother Duff’s provocative speculation aside, this looks more and more like a four-way goat-fest. 1) Idiot prostitute tried for $800 instead of the customary $60-80. 2) Secret Service cherub lost it. 3) Colombian police were not at all cool. 4) CIA fixer was asleep. Journalists are after the Secret Service “racist bitch” that …
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Steele on Electoral Reform- Part 12: The Stakeholders As a result of the viral video on electoral reform out of my briefing to the Occupy NYC working group on electoral reform, a number of stakeholders got in touch with me. Others I have identified via searches for major civil society elements with defined electoral reform …
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Why Obama’s JOBS Act Couldn’t Suck Worse Sidebar: Steve Case is evil. Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone, 9 April 2012 Boy, do I feel like an idiot. I’ve been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger …
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WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 6-8, 2012 Wait Till the War Really Comes Home The Afghan Disaster by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch The PR disasters over the last three months — including pictures of American troops urinating on Afghan corpses, the burning of Qurans, and the massacre of Afghan civilians, including women and children, by at least one …
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The politics of fear in insecurity are now the staple of American politics. They were used habitually during the Cold War to create powerful vested interests in a permanent war economy. These interests are clearly reflected in the pattern of political practices of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) that maintains and increases …
Following is circulating among military circles via email. From: REDACTED [USMC O-6 Retired]< We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress & the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, But overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln “… there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither, Safe, nor Politically …
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