Berto Jongman: Does Terrorism Work? What Do They Want? + Meta-RECAP

Does Terrorism Really Work? Evolution in the Conventional Wisdom Since 9/11 (Max Abrahms) What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy (Max Abrahms) Why Terrorism Does Not Work (Max Abrahms) Max Abrahms Website Phi Beta Iota:  Terrorism is a tactic.  Both Israel and the USA have used it to great effect, and evidently continue …

Paul Craig Roberts: The Real Economic Picture

The Real Economic Picture If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams shadowstats.com. John Williams is the best and utterly truthful statistician that we the people have. The charts below come from John Williams Hyperinflation Report, January 25, 2012. The …

Richard Wright: Mitt Romney Partners with Goldman Sachs

Close Ties to Goldman Enrich Romney’s Public and Private Lives By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, PETER LATTMAN and KEVIN ROOSE New York Times,  January 27, 2012 When Bain Capital sought to raise money in 1989 for a fast-growing office-supply company named Staples, Mitt Romney, Bain’s founder, called upon a trusted business partner: Goldman Sachs, whose bankers led …

Chuck Spinney: Is Global Warming Religion or Science?

From a perspective of elementary epistemology, the difference between practice of religion and practice of science is really quite simple:  in  religion, one changes one’s observations about reality to fit one’s conception or model of reality ; in science, one changes one’s model of reality to fit one’s observations about reality.  At the heart of …

Chuck Spinney: How Bankers Own White House, Offer Clandestine Tax Evasion Services in USA

The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning Tuesday 24 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.” When we saw it on the website Gawker.com we had to smile — but the …

Owl: Eugenics Update – “Good Club,” Vaccines to Abort, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, David Rockefeller, Population Control Of, By, and For the Elite

We don’t make this stuff up. Bill Gates Talks ‘Vaccines to Reduce Population’ by F. William Engdahl Financial Sense Editorials Archive, 4 March 2010 Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax exempt) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to …