The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I’ve never met COL Yingling, but he is somewhat famous (infamous?) within the Army. He has survived his earlier article, provided second below, and even gotten promoted, apparently recently. So now he’s sitting in a somewhat idyllic spot, specifically Garmisch, a couple of years short of qualifying to retire as a colonel. He’s again frustrated …
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When the World Outlawed War: An Interview with David Swanson For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal. Bruce E. Levine Alternet, November 21, 2011 David Swanson’s recently released book, When the World Outlawed War, tells the …
How Ignorance, Greed and Ideology Are Warping Science and Hurting Democracy Julian Brookes Rolling Stone Politics, 15 November 2011 “Whenever the people are well informed” an optimistic Thomas Jefferson wrote, “they can be trusted with their own government.” Sure – but what if the people have no clue? Most of the big challenges facing America and …
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Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (US Army Strategic Studies Institute, June 2010) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-HUMINT Below the line: full text for automated translation. The Amazon version is published by someone else abusing my original copyright granted only to SSI. Click on cover for free PDF download, or read full text …
OCCUPY NOTE 11/17/11 Contagion #ows Occupy is an open source protest. That means it doesn’t have a specific message. It is a container for may groups/motivations/passions held together by simplest of ideas: it is possible to permanently occupy of places of power. Anyone that tells you it needs to have a specific policy agenda is …
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RC ENERGY TIDBIT: Leveraging the Earth for Heat/Cooling Resilient energy leverages the terrain. Resilient guerrillas/warriors leverage the terrain they are fighting on to the max. In our case, we want: plentiful, low cost (hyper efficient) energy that uses a process that’s inexpensive to maintain and is under our control (not subject global supply chain factors and …
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YouTube Library Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies [6:09] Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 1) [9:59] Creating a Critical Society – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 2) [4:49] Determining Site Credibility – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 3) TED: Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration (19:34) Selected Books on Thinking by …
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