The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Does a Green Speed Bump Block the Road to Energy Independence?????? In this remarkable and remarkably unwelcome opinion piece, my good friend Robert Bryce, author of Power Hungry, explains why the subsidization of green technologies that are dependent on rare earth elements should not be justified as pathway toward energy independence, and in fact, could …
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… are real, if unappreciated. Chuck Scary New Wage Data David Cay Johnston | Oct. 25, 2010 04:35 AM EDT Now for some really scary breaking news, from the latest payroll tax data. Every 34th wage earner in America in 2008 went all of 2009 without earning a single dollar, new data from the Social …
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Cape Job: Inside the Tea Party’s OODA Loop (III) The two previous blasters on this subject forwarded op-ed’s that in effect described the strategic aim and strategies of the hidden hands that are fomenting right wing rage. The grand strategic aim of these hidden hands is to lock in their vision of a neofascist New …
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This is a really good argument October 28, 2010 Globalism Comes Home to Roost America’s Jobs Losses are Permanent By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch Now that a few Democrats and the remnants of the AFL-CIO are waking up to the destructive impact of jobs offshoring on the US economy and millions of American lives, globalism’s …
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Its not like the disaster described below was not foreseeable. Winning the War in Afghanistan at $50 Million per Kill Fun With Arithmetic By NICHOLAS C. ARGUIMBAU CounterPunch 28/10/10 Michael Nasuti of Kabul Press recently published an article in which he calculated that killing each Taliban soldier in Afghanistan costs on average of $50 million …
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who has been neutralized by the succession of Russian rulers, especially Putin) has just advised President Obama to get out of Afghanistan. Jonathan Steele suggests here (also attached below) that Obama ought to heed that advice, because Obama is in a similar albeit somewhat worse position than Gorbachev was in 1985-6. Analogies are dangerous, because …
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Entirely predictable! Washington Post October 27, 2010 Pg. 1 Taliban Unscathed By U.S. Strikes Insurgents appear confident they can outlast troop buildup By Greg Miller An intense military campaign aimed at crippling the Taliban has so far failed to inflict more than fleeting setbacks on the insurgency or put meaningful pressure on its leaders to …
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