The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Koko sign: Sad. As seniors climb from poverty, young fall in By Marisol Bello USA TODAY, 15 February 2012 EXTRACT: Nationally, official Census numbers show 9% of seniors in poverty. Among children, 22% — 15.6 million — live in poverty. . . . . . . . A 2011 analysis by the Urban Institute, a …
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The Crucial Pillar of the New World Order by Gary North LouRockwell.com, February 4, 2012 One of the most alluring temptations that face men is the desire to enter the inner ring. C. S. Lewis wrote a wonderful essay with this title. It should be part of every person’s rite of passage into adulthood. The desire to …
Clintonizing Perpetual War 26 December 2011 In the winter of 2002, a close friend, a liberal staffer on capital hill, asked me if I thought the crazy fulminations of the neocons and the tough-guy rantings of an insecure President [1] could result in a war with Iraq? My answer was something like ‘read the Barbara …
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A Christmas Message From America’s Rich Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone, 22 December 2011 It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out. True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front of friendly crowds at industry conferences and country clubs, meaning they don’t have to look the rest …
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Compassion Is Our New Currency : Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch.com, December 22, 2011. Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it …
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The Corruption of America Porter Stansberry, December 21st, 2011 Stansberry Research The numbers tell us America is in decline… if not outright collapse. . . . . . . . I know this is a politically charged and emotional issue. My conclusions will not be easy for most readers to accept. Likewise, many of the …
Shaping the Popular Psyche in America’s Post-Information Era: Why the US & Israel May Agree to Bombing Iran by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch, December 12, 2011 The arguments for attacking Iran are crazy, like those for attacking Iraq in response to 9-11. But that does not mean such an attack by the American and/or the …
