The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Afghan War Topples Dutch Govt (AntiWar.com) More important than the toppling of the Dutch government, and the prospect of new elections, is NATO’s actions which led up to it. Generally speaking, NATO has not made a habit of pressuring for action against the will of that nation’s ruling coalition, and many saw Rasmussen’s request as …
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Egged on by a nuclear-armed Israel and its wholly owned subsidiaries throughout the US government, a blizzard of recent news reports make it clear that President Obama’s foreign policy team is becoming obsessed with Iran, particularly, but not exclusively, its nascent atomic energy program. Obsessions are dangerous, because in any conflict, be it political, economic, or …
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Goldman Goes Rogue – Special European Audit To Follow Simon Johnson Baseline Scenario February 14, 2009 We now learn – from Der Spiegel last week and today’s NYT – that Goldman Sachs has not only helped or encouraged some European governments to hide a large part of their debts, but it also endeavored to do so …
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Worth a close read. This is the daily drill. Israel bombs Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 15 February 2010 With most of Gaza’s border region wells, cisterns and water lines destroyed by Israeli forces during last winter’s attacks, farmers have been largely left with no option but to wait …
The Making of a Euromess (New York Times) By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times, 15 Feb 2010 For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn’t the whole, or even the main, source of Europe’s troubles — not even in Greece, whose government was indeed irresponsible (and hid its irresponsibility with creative accounting). No, …
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Answer … it depends … Attached is a very revealing BBC interview with Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. It should be read carefully with an eye to what is said and not said. Note that Jones acknowledges that the time for debate over climate science …
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The breathtaking beauty of America’s green(back) economy becomes self evident in Mr. Obama’s elegant credibility default swap, wherein he synthesizes an ecological theory that CO2 emissions are more dangerous than nuclear waste to the environment with the moral principle that private profits should always be insured by public losses. Chuck U.S. to Back Loans for Reactors (New …
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