The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Hill The defense budget: Ignorance is not bliss By Winslow T. Wheeler – 03/09/11 11:56 AM ET Polling from Pew and Gallup reveals major public misconceptions about the defense budget. Fifty-eight percent of Americans know that Pentagon spending is larger than any other nation, but almost none know it is up to seven times …
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From the inventors of McNamara’s electronic line (which failed spectacularly in Vietnam) comes the Electronic Coup/Revolution Predictor (EC/RP)! This is explained below in the attached Wired report. The EC/RP is merely the latest effort in DARPA’s continuing campaign to overthrow Boyd’s Law* (i.e., Machines don’t fight war wars, people do, and they use their minds) by …
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Madison’s Nightmare: How Much Should We Spend for National Insecurity? Chuck Spinney, FEB 3, 2011 The Atlantic (for James Fallows) Read entire reference piece…. Brother Chuck makes three key points: 1. He quotes Madison, as we have, on the importance of public knowledge as the basis for the Republic keeping the government accountable and in …
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The Obama administration’s $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere “pin-prick” to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the good of the republic, a former Reagan administration budget director recently told Raw Story. . . . . . . . The ‘Ponzi scheme’ of ‘artificial prosperity’ Stockman, who described …
Worth a look….coincides with what Chuck Spinney has been saying. Defense Budget Debate: SAME OLD GAME: JUST NEW PLAYERS January 13, 2011 Harry C. Blaney III Rethinking National Security (Center for International Policy) Among the first security issues of the year is the release of information about China’s military capabilities and the recent release of the …
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Phi Beta Iota: Notes summarizing the 59 minute video are below the line. ….Watch this!!!!! My good friend Pierre Sprey interviews Bill Hartung on Book TV about Hartung’s new book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The book is a history of the largest military contractor in U.S. history, …
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Anthony H. Cordesman; with Paul S. Frederiksen and William D. Sullivan (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Real Defense Exertise, December 22, 2010 By Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) Anthony Cordesman is by any rational measure an expert in defense, security, and intelligence issues. Virtually his entire career …
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