The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Who owns America? Hint: It’s not China A close-up look at who holds America’s debt. Thomas Mucha, July 20, 2011 17:45 Truth is elusive. But it’s a good thing we have math. Our friends at Business Insider know this, and put those two principles to work today in this excellent and highly informative little slideshow, …
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Below is an excellent example of scare-mongering and ideologically-rooted media froth. The morning after Joe Scarborough WASHINGTON, D.C.— Aug. 3, 2011 It was a financial storm that even an economics professor could see coming. The debt crisis that had gripped Washington for a month came to a sudden, horrifying climax that left America’s economy looking …
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JOURNAL: Central Planning and The Fall of the US Empire Here’s some thinking that draws on decision making theory. It’s very much in line with how the late John Boyd (America’s best strategist) would approach it. ___________ One of the most interesting underlying reasons for the decline of the Soviet Union, and soon the US, …
Useful survey on when the recent as well as the further back decisions on going into debt were made. From April, but so very relevant today. Running in the red: How the U.S., on the road to surplus, detoured to massive debt By Lori Montgomery The Washington Post, April 30, 2011 The nation’s unnerving descent into …
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Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water NASA JPL CIT July 22, 2011 Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, …
From Senator Bernie Sanders, US Senator for Vermont The Fed Audit July 21, 2011 The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great …
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Zombies on the March How the GOP Became a Death Cult By Werther* Electric Politics, 18 July 2011 Does anyone still remember the GOP of the chowder and marching society, Jell-O salads, Buicks, and cloth coats? Is it conceivable that a Republican could have written the following? — “Should any political party attempt to abolish …
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