The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Secretary of Defense Panetta used an invitation to the National War College as an opportunity to lobby against cutting the defense budget more than the $350 billion he has already agreed to. In the absence of any informed or probing questions, Panetta’s extreme rhetoric has also oozed into new Washington DC hysteria resulting from reports …
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Public Intelligence Net has consolidated two separate items that I repeat below. Net interest is high, this consolidated version is more reliable. Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read. Comments at end below the line. Richard Clarke Says CIA Tried to Recruit 9/11 Terrorists An Explosive New 9/11 Charge (Daily Beast): In a new documentary, …
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About The Program for Public Consultation (PPC) is a newly-established joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. PPC has been established to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and to conduct public consultations. In particular it will work with government …
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Stephen Joel Trachtenberg 5.0 out of 5 stars Relevant Today–Perhaps Still Not Appreciated Today, August 10, 2011 There is nothing in this book that I could disagree with, which instantly marks it as iconoclastic rather than traditional or elitist. This long-serving president spent close to three decades managing two universities, the longest The George Washington …
BIG QUESTION: Gold or Virtual Currencies? As anticipated, we’re on the brink of a global economic depression (again). There’s a strong possibility that a long running global depression will lead to a reshuffling of the global economic and political landscape. IF that happens, many of the fiat currencies we currently use will simply evaporate. Given …
Hamilton Bean 5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Integrative and Pioneering Work, July 27, 2011 This is a pioneering work that not only explains the true worth of open source intelligence, but also illuminates the institutional bias against it and the pathologies of a culture of secrecy. The use of primary data from interviews makes …
Deborah Avant, Martha Finnemore, Susan Sell (editors) 5.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering work too slow to be published,July 24, 2011< This is a very fine book that is also available free in conference form (search for <Who Governs the Globe conference>), but of course not paginated, formatted, indexed, and generally edited, all values of …
