The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Global Hawk (Block 30), one of the more obvious vampires sucking money out of the defense budget, has been disinterred from its coffin by corporate go-fers in Congress. The story of this high cost, low performance drone makes obvious that filibuster abuse and political dogmatism are not the only problems in Congress. Two really excellent pieces of work …
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“If Congress goes along [by approving President Obama’s 2014 DOD budget request], Pentagon spending levels will exceed any previous high by any other president in any year in peace or in war since the death of President Roosevelt in 1945, except for President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2008.” “…current military spending is lapping …
Huh? Uzbekistan Media: We Should Join NATO, Conquer Eurasia A recent piece in Uzbekistan’s state-sanctioned media has advocated joining NATO and taking over the territory of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and most of the rest of Eurasia. The piece, published on 12news.uz, was taken down shortly after being published, but was preserved on inoSMI.ru. [PBI: English translation …
In a two part series (titled “The Defense Budget Is Even Larger than You Think”) at Time magazine’s Battleland blog, I attempt to explain how high spending advocates and even the Department of Defense misuse and manipulate budget data to alter public and congressional perceptions of the contemporary size of DOD spending. The differences between …
Updated 25 February 2014 1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology 1986 Computer Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science & Technology (CATALYST) 1989 Webb (US) CATALYST: Computer-Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science & Technology 1993 Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit 1998 TAKEDOWN: Targets, Tools, & Technocracy 2001 …
Attached herewith is an essay I just wrote for Counterpunch. For you convenience I have also attached a very important McClatchy report on the Orwellian Insider Threat Program being promoted by the Obama Administration. The lead co-author, Jonathan Landay, is one of the few mainstream reporters who has been onto the lunacy unleashed by 9-11 …
OpenCorporates, which has received an initial grant from Alfred P Sloan, one of the funders of Wikipedia, takes its business model from the open source software movement. OpenCorporates makes company data public Company data that shows the complex relationships between companies and their subsidiaries worldwide is being made available as part of an initiative to …
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