The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Establishment Unsheathes the Long knives in Versailles??????? America: A fearsome foursome (Financial Times) By Edward Luce Financial Times Published: February 3 2010 20:09 Phi Beta Iota: The Financial Times is retarded (yes, the R-word, used with love) and has not yet caught up to the fact that required registrations are so TIRED. We provide the …
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“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …
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A central critique in my book, Defense Facts of Life: the Plans/Reality Mismatch (Westview,1985), what the trend toward increasing technical complexity in the Pentagon’s weapons and organizational arrangements caused all sorts of self destructive pathologiess — which I described in considerable detail and in subsequent studies. I defined “complexity” as a quality of the “whole” …
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The below article written by my two good friends Winslow Wheeler and Pierre Sprey is one of the very best case studies describing how the incredible corruption of critical thinking that prevails in the day to day life of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) produces techno trash. With programs like the F-35 …
Headlines Only: Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated) Spytech Agency Wants Software Brains to Connect the Dots Training For The Civilian Surge TSA Cannot Order Sites to Take Down Sensitive Manual Headlines and Snippets Below the Fold with Phi Beta Iota Comment
In 1986, Project GEORGE (Smiley) in the CIA’s Office of Information Technology discovered that computers had been designed without ever talking to librarians. There were created as unstructured bit buckets. It turns out that in the analog period, structure and the Dewey decimal system and humanly-constructed taxonomies were vitally important if one was to archive …
