The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Kissinger vows to China: “Jeb Bush Will Be Next President” Sorcha Faal WhatDoesThisMean.com, 18 January 2012 A shocking report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Prime Minister Putin on the just completed meeting between China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that the Chinese were told …
Colbert for President Danny Schechter Al Jazeera, 17 January 2012 Steven Colbert announced he will form “an exploratory committee for president of the United States of South Carolina”. New York, NY – The New York Times, in its wisdom, remains irony-challenged and doesn’t know what to think about satirist and Comedy Channel host Stephen Colbert’s …
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Event: 30-31 March 2012 NYC Participatory Budgeting 21st Century Network Governance – Beyond Participatory Budgeting Participatory budgeting is a very important step in the right direction, but in the larger context of both obstacles presented by corrupt governance and what is possible enabled by the Internet, it can be taken–quickly–to a higher level. Participatory budgeting …
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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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Dear friends, Robert Steele, a long-time colleague of mine and presidential hopeful with the Reform Party (see PS below), has just become the second politician to sign the Co-Intelligence Institute’s Politician’s Pledge http://bit.ly/SteelePledge. This pledge commits the politician to take seriously any properly convened and facilitated citizens deliberative council – to post its results on …
Douthat apparently has not read that book, A Fine Madness, Paul or a better grounded iconoclast may be exactly what the country needs. Pariahs and Prophets Ross Douthat New York Times, 31 December 2011 IN 1984, after serving three terms in the House of Representatives, Ron Paul was defeated by Phil Gramm in Texas’s Republican …
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POLITICS The `K Street Clausewitz’ Remembered By CHUCK SPINNEY | December 30, 2011 Mark Thompson’s 27 December posting, “General Newt,” alerted readers of Battleland to Karen Tumulty’s pastiche of mini portraits of Newt Gingrich’s martial prowess. Mark highlighted one the few passages that zeroed in on the insubstantial essence of the K Street Clausewitz. Unable to contain my …
