
“Omnibus” Information and Commentary Paper: What Did the Appropriators Really Do to Defense Spending?
Bottom line: At $600B plus, DoD is a pig — easily 40% waste.
Summary of Findings:
The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway?
It’s time to subpoena the Committee for Our Children’s Future
By Greg Palast for Truthout
Thursday, 16. January 2014
Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires –– and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following these hidden hugger-muggers.
First uploaded in 2010. Tip of the Hat to Pete Lindall @ LinkedIn.
Let the Investigations and Prosecutions Begin! 9 years after the attacks we are finally zeroing in on the people responsible. Kevin Ryan has been kicking ass and taking names, while the pseudo-savior Julian Assange censors cables dealing with Israel and calls 9/11 Truthers “annoying”. Assange staked the reputation of Wikileaks on the public never learning about Building 7. So ask yourself: Who would want to silence the biggest controversy in history? Why is Julian Assange doing this? Who is he?
Continue reading “9/11 DVD: Who Had Demolition Access to WTC?”
BOOK: America's Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability—far from it.
NB: If John Kerry had an Open Source Agency, he would be vastly better informed and much more effective.
ANALYSIS: 36 Signs The Media Is Lying To You About How Radiation From Fukushima Is Affecting The West Coast
ANALYSIS: Interpreting Al Qaeda — Milbank Gets It Wrong
ANALYSIS: Spinning Al Qaeda — Flawed Analysis = Bad Policy
ANALYSIS: US Intelligence Challenged by MIT on Ghouta Chemical Attack
CULTURE: Culture of Blessed Death in Mexico
CYBER: Blackberry Owns Patent to NSA's Mandated (Purchased) Backdoor RSA Algorithm

Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Discoverd konzo, a new epidemic paralytic disease, when serving as doctor in Mocambique 1979-81. Two decades of research in rural Africa traced the cause to toxic ill-processed cassava roots, hunger and poverty. Co-founded Médecines sans Frontier Sweden. Started courses and wrote textbook on Global Health. Initiated university collaborations with Asia and Africa. Co-founded Gapminder that unveils the beauty of statistics by turning boring numbers into enjoyable animations that make sense of the world.

Soon to be at the Harper's website, at http://harpers.org/, is the attached article by Andrew Cockburn. “Tunnel Vision: Will the Air Force Kill Its Most Effective Weapon?” is sure to generate howls of protest from officialdom in the Air Force and its mouthpieces.