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Marcus Aurelius: Defense Spending Contradictions – Panetta’s Week-Ends versus TRICARE Cuts

So, proposed TRICARE fee increases are intended to cover costs of SECDEF’s weekend trips home?  Would not be surprised. CNN April 6, 2012 A $32,000 Trip Every Weekend The Situation Room (CNN), 5:00 P.M. JOE JOHNS: Imagine working in Washington Monday through Friday then flying home almost every weekend to California. That’s a weekly ritual …

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Review (Guest): Conversations with Wall Street – The Inside Story of the Financial Armageddon & How To Prevent the Next One

Peter Ressler, Monika Mitchell 5 Stars Co-authors Peter Ressler and Monika Mitchell have been 20-year Wall Street insiders as partners in an executive search firm. Their book is a page-turning account of the 2007-8 meltdown and continuing unsolved issues that will inevitably lead to the next crises. Woven throughout their analysis are conversations with dozens …

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Marcus Aurelius: Living in an Upside Down Land – Email from O-6 USMC

Following is circulating among military circles via email. From:  REDACTED [USMC O-6 Retired]< We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress & the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, But overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln “… there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither, Safe, nor Politically …

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Mini-Me: US Dollar Out, Yuan, System D, and Open Money In + Meta-RECAP

BRICS Move To Replace Dollar With “Super-Sovereign” Global Currency Alexander Higgins, Contributor Activist Post, 28 March 2012 As China is expected to rise to the status of a financial superpower within the next 8 years and eclipse the US economy by 2020, Africa becomes center stage in the greatest currency war the world has seen …

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Search: strategic modeling for government spending

Search as is: 2008 Rebalancing the Instruments of National Power (Full Text Online for Google Translate) My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence Human in the Loop Result: Search: Strategic Analytic Model Phi Beta Iota:  No one does this correctly for multiple reasons.  Tracking dollar inputs or dollar outputs is virtually useless as …

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