The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I was asked to come in and do this one, and did so gladly. Public intelligence in the public interest, done with integrity, is the global brain. The human brain is the only inexhaustible resource we have, and Priority One should be to empower the five billion poor with connectivity first, and access to all …
Precedent works: Project for a New American Century Post-Event Illuminations: 2006 Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror 2007 Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years” From Niels Groeneveld at Facebook: VIDEO: 9/11 Attack or Godsend (German and British Ministers) Decision to Invade Afghanistan …
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This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …
Below the line, covers, Amazon links, and product descriptions for: LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy–A Coalescence of Interests DVD: The Men Who Killed Kennedy Phi …
Infotention Skills: From Information Overload to Knowledge Navigation An immersive learning experience from the Institute for Social & Network Literacy 21st Century Information Fluency Self-guided Assessment and Tutorial Packages Phi Beta Iota: US education, like the rest of government-dominated programs, is totally broken. Apart from the 22% now unemployed, another 22% can expect to be …
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CS Note: Lightly reformatted by text unchanged and nothing added Can the United States move beyond the narcissism of 9/11? The unity brought about by the tragedy was intense but fleeting. The war on terror has been disastrous abroad and divisive at home Gary Younge, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 4 September 2011 18.00 In the immediate aftermath of …
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Soldier, Thinker, Hunter, Spy: Drawing a Bead on Al Qaeda By ELISABETH BUMILLER New York Times, September 3, 2011 EXTRACT: “I just want to kill those guys,” Mr. Vickers likes to say in meetings at the Pentagon, with a grin. . . . . . . . As covert American wars — in Pakistan, Yemen …
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