The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Government Capture – Two Ways it Affects Us All Capture. Corporate power over government. It may seem like a dour topic (it is) and it may be hard to put it into perspective in our lives. How does it affect you and me? Lobbying, political influence, money in politics all seem very far away from …
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The failure of the so-called Super-Committee to come up with a plan for reducing the federal deficit has put the automatic sequestration process into play, at least for the time being. If executed, sequestration will impose arbitrary across-the-board spending cuts in the belief that reduced federal spending will reduce the deficit and reverse our economic …
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Try Not to Think of a Newt By David Swanson The current President and Congress are destroying our Constitutional rights, our planet’s climate, and the vestiges of a social safety net, and you are obsessing over a freak show of self-hating homosexuals and anti-intellectual intellectuals jumping through hoops in a corporate media circus with Ringmaster …
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Koko Sign: Gorillas better forecasters than computers. Crowdsourcing Snowstorm’s Westward Model Shift AccuWeather.com, Dec 7, 2011 I was surprised to see this HRRR forecast model prediction of tonight’s Northeast snow showing no snow for Harrisburg and York, PA, and showing the axis of heaviest snow (4-8″) over or west of State College, PA. This disagreed …
The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations………… A speed bump for Pentagon’s information ops By Walter Pincus The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations. The Senate Armed Services Committee has asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta …
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My experience with GCHQ was that they were able to conduct better processing and anaysis than NSA at consideribly less cost. I remember one particularly difficult puzzle that I was trying to work out using the latest contactor designed programs (vapor ware) and getting nowhere. An analyst (and friend) at GCHQ managed to solve the puzzle using the …
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Here is a quick $300 million that could be saved…..and reduce the workforce by the 3000 people they were going to move…. Military planning $300 million intelligence campus in Bethesda The Pentagon plans to set up a $300 million hub in Bethesda for the federal government’s intelligence-gathering agencies on a 40-acre site vacated in September …
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