The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ben Bernanke’s Judy Garland Impersonation by Gary North “Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.” Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech on April 13 on “Rethinking Finance.” It certainly needs to be rethought at the highest levels. Unfortunately, Dr. Bernanke has not yet begun the process. Thinking, yes. Not rethinking. He ended …
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The World America Didn’t Make Amitai Etzioni The National Interest, March 21, 2012 Robert Kagan’s book, The World America Made, is refocusing the debate on whether the United States is declining as a global power—and speculation about whether other powers will step in to assume the responsibility for sustaining a liberal, rule-based international order. Kagan …
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Peak Intel: How So-Called Strategic Intelligence Actually Makes Us Dumber An industry that once told hard truths to corporate and government clients now mostly just tells them what they want to hear, making it harder for us all to adapt to a changing world — and that’s why I’m leaving it. Eric Garland The Atlantic, …
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Briefing as Presented 31 March 2012 to the Washington Academy of Sciences 22 Slides PDF 1MB words in Notes format, as delivered. Steele at WAS on Reflexivity 1 MB SHORT URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/WAS-Steele Abstract & Full Text Brief Online Below UPDATED 23 April 2014 to add new references with analytic and technical thrust.
CORRUPTION is the common enemy, both in government and in the private sector. ELECTORAL REFORM is the singular demand. COALITION CABINET is the method. INTEGRITY is the core value. COMMONWEALTH RESTORED is the outcome. Occupy Revolution OccupyWallStreet (Home Site) Original Electoral Reform Documents (Updated) We the People Reform Coalition 25 March 2012 Penn Badgley …
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‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation Aljazeera – Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:24 GST Chiang Mai, Thailand – Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create exponentially increasing use value, and those who capture this value through social media – …
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Salaries: Dim Light, Long Tunnel by Gary North Recently by Gary North: C.S. Lewis Warned Against the New World Order MarketWatch ran an article on the lack of optimism for the American job market. It offered no analysis of why the market is bad, but it made it clear that it is not likely to …
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