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2012/02/052012/02/05

Richard Wright: Integrity? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Integrity!

Integrity? We don’t need no stinkin’integrity! Precision Munitions Lessen Need for Close Air Support Plane: Schwartz Answers the A-10 Question PENTAGON: One of the longest-running debates between the Air Force and the Army centers on close air support. Historically, the Air Force hates supplying CAS and doesn’t like buying or maintaining the planes that do …

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2012/02/052016/05/19

Review: Leverage – How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World

Karl Denninger STRONG FIVE – Original, Award-Winning, Major Contribution, February 5, 2012 On the very last page of the book I learn that the author received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for Grassroots Journalism, for his coverage of the 2008 market meltdown. This confirms my own already formed very high estimation of the …

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2012/02/022012/02/03

Reference: Four Letters That Changed Nothing

Appendix: Game Changing Letters that Flopped Note: These letters were to be included as appendices to illuminate how those in power refuse to consider, much less embrace, radical constructive ideas, however essential they might be to the 99%. All four of these leaders – a Pope, the Secretary General of the United Nations, a sitting …

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2012/01/28

David Swanson: 15 Things More Important Than Debate Topics

15 Things More Important Than Newt’s Sex Life on the Moon 1. A war on Iran could kill us all. President Obama said in the State of the Union: “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. But a …

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2012/01/262012/01/26

David Swanson: Military Spending Going UP Not Down

Panetta: Military Spending Is Going Up By David Swanson On Thursday, Leon Panetta held a press conference announcing what he called “cuts” to military spending. The first question following his remarks pointed out that the “cuts” are to dream budgets, while the actual spending will be increased over Panetta’s 10-year plan. Is there any year, …

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2012/01/182012/01/18

Mini-Me: Out-Sourcing Drug War – Without Honor

Huh? Pentagon Transfers War on Drugs to Private Mercenaries Including Blackwater Eric Blair Activist Post Since the drug war has become so unpopular with the electorate, instead of politicians actually changing the drug laws, the Department of Defense seeks to reduce and conceal the real costs by transferring the “dirty work” to private contractors to …

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2012/01/16

Doug Casey: Overview of USG Spending / Bankruptcy

The US Government Is Bankrupt Doug Casey Lou Rockwell.com, 16 January 2012 EXTRACT: To sum up the situation, given its financial condition and the political forces working to worsen it, the US government is facing a completely impossible and irremediable situation. I’m going to try to illustrate that here. But because I’m a perpetual optimist, …

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