The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
True Cost is called by some a triple-bottom line (physical cost, ecological cost, social cost). Others talk about true cost to own (including all related fuels or batteries, toxic side effects etc), others talk about cradle to grave accounting to include complete recycling. Technically, true cost accounting prohibits negative external costs from being ignored. A …
For months I have been reading in the press about Robert Gates “cancelling more than 30 [defense hardware] programs.” A May 24 Bloomberg article by Viole Gienger (“Gates Says Military Cuts May Protect F-35, Submarines”) came up quick on a Google search. Other articles credit Gates with “saving more than $300 billion” with these – …
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The Gates Farewell Warning America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both. Phi Beta Iota Sidenote: BOTH of the above “choices” are corruption incarnate. The correct choice was articulated by Thomas Jefferson: “A Nation’s best defense is an educated citizenry.” EXTRACT: In a series of farewell speeches, Mr. Gates has warned …
Willful Ignorance April 12th, 2011 By Paul Carline thepeoplesvoice.org Cards on the table. I’ve been a “truther” since early 2002 when I came across the first major challenge to the official 9/11 story in the shape of the wonderful “Hunt the Boeing” site created by French researcher Thierry Meyssan. Until then I’d accepted the standard …
The discussion of corruption–and the urgency of reasserting integrity–permeates this website. Here are a general comment and a few links. General comment: Corruption consists of a lack of integrity, which in turn is not just about dishonesty, but about a failure to achieve transparency, truth, trust, and accurate feedback loops. The cost of corruption, calculated …
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There is no doubt that, Pentagon Labyrinth is a first rate piece of work. However it did fail to mention an additional factor in defense procurement costs that is often overlooked and that is the need to subsidize U.S. defense industry giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman and General Dynamics. This also explains the over …
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Although snuffing out dissent and cutting citizens off from the world aren’t actions generally associated with the American ideal, two U.S. companies are helping the Egyptian government do just that as populist protests continue shaking the African nation. The tear gas and smoke grenade manufacturer Combined Systems, Inc. is based out of Jamestown, Pennsylvania. But …
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