The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Very important article from one of the very best reporters covering the Middle East Walking Into the Al-Qaeda Trap Touch Yemen, Get Burned By PATRICK COCKBURN December 31, 2009 Skip to End of Article: It is extraordinary to see the US begin to make the same mistakes in Yemen as it previously made in Afghanistan …
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Climate Change: The Religion of Copenhagen During the recent COP-15 Conference in Copenhagen, the United Nations claimed it wanted to maintain religious neutrality. It was a lie. Global Warming is the established religion at these international events. Get the U.N. Out of the Climate Business The political theater in Copenhagen shows that we need realistic …
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Way cool! First off, the White House is theater. We have no strategy, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not know how to manage, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not know how to produce intelligence (decision-support) for all who have a “need to know.” Until President Barack Obama, whom we pray …
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FEATURE Automated to Death As software pilots more of our vehicles, humans can pay the ultimate price. Robert N. Charette investigates the causes and consequences of the automation paradox EXTRACT: The Flight 124 crew had fallen prey to what psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge in the early 1980s identified as the ironies and paradoxes of automation. The …
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Brilliant but Narrow, Simplifies A Bridge Too Far December 19, 2009 Mark Moyar EDIT of 21 Feb 2010: A colleague in COINSOC has pointed out that I missed one key aspect of this book and I hasten to add it: “Moyar’s point that we are applying peacetime personnel policies by putting people in place based …
Stability Operations for Dummies: The Role of the Prvate Sector in Iraq (YouTube Briefing) Doug Brooks, founding President of the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA) has a video circulating that offers the soft sales pitch for outsourcing “contingency support.” It is all positive and completely avoids all of the negatives, such as: 1. Pillaging and …
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Five for the Voice, Four for the Substance December 12, 2009 Thom Hartmann Thom Hartmann is one of a handful of individuals that I consider to be true guides for the rest of us, and I consider two of his earlier books, Cracking the Code and SCREWED, to have been instrumental in my own transformation …
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