The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Phi Beta Iota: Reprinted in full to allow emphasis and easier reading. Original source at logo, “as is.” Recommended by our physical gold colleagues. ______________________________________ Several financial events this week indicate something big is about to happen, something that may make the 2008 credit crisis seem rather benign. First, the IMF announced that it is …
Researcher Berto Jongman recommends 6 monographs, 5 articles, 3 books. EDIT of 24 Nov 09: 6 monograph recommendations added. Russia: A Promising Market for Islamic Finance 21/11/2009By Lahem al Nasser Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- There are around 47 million Muslims in Russia, which means that Muslims make up around one third of Russia’s overall population. This …
Lethal Weapon: Islamist Perfidy or Western Naivety? by Raymond Ibrahim, Pajamas Media, November 23, 2009 The narrator’s enthusiastic talk of NYPD brass standing in awe of the “cadences of the call” makes it difficult to discern exactly which verse is being recited. Only the last few words — qawm al-kaffirin, “nation of infidels” — are …
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Phi Beta Iota: Berto Jongman flagged this from the Small Wars Journal. It is consistent with our own earlier diagnosis of Cognitive Dissonance, and we recommend it be read in its entirety. At the link below can be found a link to the original slide show. The author stresses the reasonable gravity of the conflict …
Researcher Berto Jongman recommends…. Poverty and unemployment fuel the conflict according to 70% of Afghans, new Oxfam research shows Seventy per cent of Afghans surveyed see poverty and unemployment as the major cause of the conflict in their country, according to new research by international aid agency Oxfam and a group of Afghan organisations. Ordinary …
Today’s recommendaitons: Who’s who in the Somali insurgency: A Reference Guide Interview with Maajid Nawaz:Becoming a Muslim Radical New Quilliam report: British prisons are incubating Islamist extremism Selected Translation of the LIFG Recantation Document Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field. Antonio Giustozzi gathers a renowned cast of journalists, experts, and academics to …
