The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
If you had any doubts about how corrupt the government has become, and how much it is an extension of the Non-geographical Corporate States, this story should settle the matter. Leak: US Using Taxpayer Dollars To Promote Monsanto GMOs Overseas ANTHONY GUCCIARDI – Natural Society Just when you thought the latest Supreme Court ruling in …
This offers a brilliant analysis, a “connecting of the dots,” of why Petreaus was set up to leave CIA. But that’s not the main story. The general’s affair was cover used by Obama for getting rid of Petraeus to install Brennan for a special purpose: “If Brennan were to succeed Petraeus at the C.I.A., the …
Maybe we should stop worrying about analysts w second language capabilities and insist that policymakers have a second language. Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language. A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the US …
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Think Again: Intelligence I served in the CIA for 28 years and I can tell you: America’s screw-ups come from bad leaders, not lousy spies. Paul Pillar Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb 2012 “Presidents Make Decisions Based on Intelligence.” Not the big ones. From George W. Bush trumpeting WMD reports about Iraq to this year’s Republican presidential …
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The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy Foreign Affairs Snapshot, December 15, 2011 Running Out of Time for Afghan Governance Reform Stephen Biddle In Afghanistan, even minimally accountable democracy may soon be beyond reach. If so, some form of constrained warlord rule will be the most that’s achievable. Snapshot, December 16, 2011 The Three …
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In addition to making the United States a global laughing stock, last month’s dismaying political circus over what used to be routine legislation to increase the debt ceiling solidified the “let them eat cake” politics among the courtiers and plutocrats calling the shots from behind the curtains in the hall of mirrors that is Versailles on the …
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Robert David Steele Serial pioneer, hacking humanity… Posted: October 27, 2010 05:16 PM 12 Core Policy Domains For those seeing this Blog for the first time, this is the 12th in a 24-part series appointing a Virtual Cabinet and creating a balanced sane intelligence-driven budget as a baseline for evaluating any candidate for public office. …
