The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The man who exposed the lie of the war on drugs
Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism, capitalism as cocaine, known in its purest form as zero-zero-zero – a wry reference to the name of the best grade of flour, ideal for pasta.
Continue reading “Faded Rose: Cocaine Economy Central to City of London Operations”
We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think | Will Hutton
www.theguardian.com
As even Tim Berners-Lee has recognised, the volume of data with which we’re being bombarded prevents us from engaging in genuine debate
While the Children in Flint Were Given Poisoned Water to Drink, General Motors Was Given a Special Hookup to the Clean Water: Shortly after Gov. Snyder removed Flint from the clean fresh water, GM complained to him that the Flint River water caused their car parts to corrode when washed on the assembly line. The governor jumped through hoops and quietly spent $440,000 to hook GM back up to the Lake Huron water, while keeping the rest of Flint on the river water. While the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, only the GM factory was receiving clean water.
Intel agencies had hints of ISIS plot
Source: It wasn't a secret ISIS was targeting Europe
Intelligence obtained by Western security agencies before the November 13 Paris attacks indicated as many as 60 ISIS fighters had been deployed by the group to Europe to carry out attacks on five cities and had already reached European soil, a senior European counterterrorism source told CN.N.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Advance Knowledge of ISIS Plots in Europe?”
FIBER and De Brakke Grond present ‘Michel Bauwens & The Promise of the Blockchain – Future applications of decentralized databases’. This event is part of ‘All Futures Memories’ (De Brakke Grond) and is FIBER’s 12th edition of their Coded Matter(s) event serie.
Who’s Afraid of a Feminist Foreign Policy?
Jenny Nordberg, New Yorker, 15 April 2015
Last month, Saudi Arabia abruptly cut ties with Sweden, recalling its ambassador and announcing that it would issue no new visas to Swedish business travelers. The cause, according to Saudi Arabia, was some remarks made by Margot Wallström, the foreign minister of Sweden.
Pakistan’s Hand in the Rise of International Jihad
TUNIS — PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan and the Taliban produce results in the next few months, his country may not survive 2016. Afghanistan is barely standing, he says, after the Taliban onslaught last year, which led to the highest casualties among civilians and security forces since 2001.
