Doug Macgregor: Armed Exceptionalism — Why the Military-Industrial Complex Persists without Accountability

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Col Dr. Douglas Macgregor

Tomgram: William Hartung, The Doctrine of Armed Exceptionalism

The Urge to Splurge
Why Is It So Hard to Reduce the Pentagon Budget?
By William D. Hartung

Through good times and bad, regardless of what’s actually happening in the world, one thing is certain: in the long run, the Pentagon budget won’t go down.

Doug Macgregor: Admiral Fisher and the Transformation of the Royal Navy

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Col Dr. Douglas Macgregor

Transformation is not the same as modernization. Nor is transformation likely to be embraced by those who achieved their seniority via the old system.

Below is a briefing as presented to Command and General Staff Course (CGSC) Class, Logistics University, Fort Lee, VA on 7 April 2015.

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Yoda: Small Lies Breed Big Lies

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yoda with light saberDishonest, we are.

Lies Breed Lies: Brain May Get Desensitized to Dishonesty

“It is likely [that] the brain's blunted response to repeated acts of dishonesty reflects a reduced emotional response to these acts,” Garrett said.

 

Phi Beta Iota: The public has been dumbed down deliberately, with a mix of deliberate rote learning, poisoned air, food, and water, and a complicit media that entertains rather than informs. Government has chosen to focus on spending money for special interests rather than making decisions in the public interest. Lying is endemic within US culture.

See Also:

Marcus Aurelius: LYING TO OURSELVES – DISHONESTY IN THE ARMY PROFESSION (Free Monograph) Plus RS on BD Opportunity

Review: The Cheating Culture–Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

Review: Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Jan Oberg: The New Cold War — West at Fault?

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Jan Oberg

Ten articles on the new Cold War and a reflection

While this new Cold War is certainly different from the first Cold war that ended in 1989, we are not in doubt that there is a new such tragic war and that the risk of military confrontation between Russia and NATO countries in Europe has increased. We also happen to think it could have been avoided. This Cold War has to do with, among many other things, NATO’s counterproductive expansion since 1994, the way Yugoslavia broke down and was broken up, with Ukraine and now Syria as well as – perhaps surprisingly to some – the rapidly diminishing political power and legitimacy of the West in the emerging world order.

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Sepp Hasslberger: CDC Vaccine “Science” a Massive Conflict of Interest

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Sepp Hasslberger

The American Centers for Disease Control are pushing vaccines with all their might. Yet they are also the institution that is supposed to be responsible for vaccine safety. Something definitely is not working properly here…

CDC vaccine science covers up giant conflict of interest

If you wanted to buy a product, and the main source of research on the product was the company selling it, would you automatically assume the product was safe and effective? But you see, that’s the just the beginning of the problem. Suppose the company’s research was cited thousands of times in the press, as the authoritative standard of proof—and anyone who disputed that research was labeled a conspiracy theorist and a quack and a danger to the community and an anti-science lunatic. Would you begin to suspect the company had some awesome media connections? Would you suspect some very powerful people were backing the company? This is exactly the situation with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)…

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James Tracy: Electoral Fraud in Texas

Corruption, Government, IO Impotency
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Reports of Potential Voting Trickery in 2016 Presidential Election

The experience of voters in Texas and other states may be bearing out Trump’s warning as multiple reports are surfacing of electronic voting machines changing virtual ballots from Republican to Democratic presidential candidates.

As The Economic Collapse Blog observes,

[A] number of voters in Texas are reporting that the voting machines switched their votes from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton.

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