The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
F-35: Out of Altitude, Airspeed, and Ideas — But Never Money Chuck Spinney TIME, 30 January 2012 No program better illustrates the pathologies of the weapons acquisition process as it is currently practiced by the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) than the entirely predictable, and in this case, predicted, problems dragging the F-35 …
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Reflection: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge musings on Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge . NOTE: This is a book review, extraction from the work above, not personal reflections inspired by the book, and is offered as such–a gleaning from Lyotard’s 1979 work. . How do we define ‘knowledge’ in …
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American Voters: Still Up for Grabs By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New York Times, January 21, 2012 A Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Friday found that two-thirds of Americans would consider voting for a third-party presidential candidate, while 48 percent definitely wanted a third party in the race. Now what does that tell you? It …
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JOHO: Messages from the Dark At “JOHO the Blog,” David Weinberger has a simple and very cool summary of the meaning of yesterday’s SOPA-induced blackout. “This is our Internet. We built it. We built it for us, not for you. We get to turn off the lights, not you.” Yes, indeed. It took a long …
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Huh? We, we, we’ve been lied to? How can this be? Top US Nuclear Expert Tells Obama: There Is No Weapons Threat From Iran January 16, 2012 • 1:29AM The former director of U.S. programs for production of nuclear materials and components for nuclear weapons, Clinton Bastin, sent an open letter to President Obama the …
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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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Colonel Tony Pfaff, USA is a Foreign Area Officer for the Middle East and North Africa, currently serving as the Senior Military and Army Advisor to the Department of State. Colonel Pfaff began his military career as an Infantry officer and first served as platoon leader and company executive officer in the 82nd Airborne Division, …
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