SNAP ANALYSIS: New world economic order takes shape at G20 By Lesley Wroughton Fri Sep 25, 2009 PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Group of 20 is set to become the premier coordinating body on global economic issues, reflecting a new world economic order in which emerging market countries like China are much more relevant, according to …
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Six Star Special September 20, 2009 Paul Polack This book is a “beyond five stars” book and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog where I can do things Amazon does not provide for, including reader access to my 1400+ non-fiction reviews via any of 100 different categories. This single …
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Chuck Spinney says: Even though OODA loops shaping nutty mass behaviour are becoming ever more disconnected from reality, Frank Rich shows this fact does not imply that the phenomenon of populist rage is not based on some real frustrations, grievances, anxieties, and fears. CS The New York Times OP-ED COLUMNIST Even Glenn Beck Is Right …
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This lengthy piece is organized as follows: 1) Chuck Spinney on how our partisan “leaders” are disconnected from reality and leading us over a cliff, with reference to John Boyd. 2. An extract and link to the always brilliant CounterPunch where David Michael Green discusses the core issue: Can America be salvaged? 3. A Phi …
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The Obama Administration means well, no question about it. They simply do not know what they do not know, and no one within the US Intelligence Community appears capable of speaking truth to power. The truth that needs to be spoken is that Washington lacks both integrity and intelligence (as in thoughtful holistic decision-making). Washington …
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Full Story Online Dylan Ratigan| Sep. 14, 2009, 1:33 PM The American people have been taken hostage to a broken system. It is a system that remains in place to this day. . . . . . . . It has become startlingly clear that we as a country, and I as a journalist, had …
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