The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What Gates Didn’t Do Robert Gates has been called the best secretary of defense in recent memory. On the other hand, he has a reputation with some as a slick career bureaucrat with a knack for avoiding blame but pocketing credit. Both are true. “Best in recent memory?” It would have been hard for Gates …
US: $6.6bn in Iraq aid ‘may have been stolen’ By David Usborne, US Editor Tuesday, 14 June 2011 Years after American auditors said they had lost track of vast sums of reconstruction cash for Iraq in the wake of the ousting of Saddam Hussein they are now admitting for the first time that much of …
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This blaster is intended to bring two very important reports and a short third report to your attention. The three should be thought about together. 1 is an essay by Robert Parry Consortium News. It is an excellent summary of the last 10 years of perpetual war and the debacle wrought by the Neoconmen. It also …
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UPDATED with Comment from O-5 (at end). This email is from an active duty colonel who travels all over Afghanistan. He actually goes on foot patrols with troops to see things for himself. Here is his latest report. His message is bad Ju Ju, I am afraid. Chuck Spinney La Ciotat, France To All, The …
Bono’s ONE foundation under fire for giving little over 1% of funds to charity By Daily Mail Reporter Daily Mail UK, 23rd September 2010 Bono’s anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money it raises reaches the needy. The non-profit organisation set …
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Phi Beta Iota: The world is in an interregnum, between “rule by secrecy” and lies from power as the norm, and a very ugly baby Web 4.0 in which bottom-up truth struggles to emerge. We will have a great deal of baby poop to deal with, but over time, public intelligence in the public interest …
U.S. arms makers said to be bleeding secrets to cyber foes By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON | Tue May 31, 2011 (Reuters) – Top Pentagon contractors have been bleeding secrets for years as a result of penetrations of their computer networks, current and former national security officials say. Read full article…. Phi Beta Iota: This is …
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