The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Great search! We’ve been thinking recently about writing a piece on Strategic Counterintelligence that begins with Sun Tzu’s guidance to “know oneself.” Your search is encouraging. It boils down to one word: INTEGRITY. The problem emerges when we fail to invest in education (as opposed to rote Weapons of Mass Instruction), this ultimate produces a …
Climategate: Science Is Dying (WS) The East Anglians’ mistreatment of scientists who challenged global warming’s claims—plotting to shut them up and shut down their ability to publish—evokes the attempt to silence Galileo. The exchanges between Penn State’s Michael Mann and East Anglia CRU director Phil Jones sound like Father Firenzuola, the Commissary-General of the Inquisition. …
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Chuck Spinney Sends: Viewed at the level of epistemology, the distinction be the search for truth in science and religion is stark: In science the structure of the world view — i.e., the brain’s interior model of reality — is evolved to match observations taken from the external world, whereas in religion, observations are evolved …
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Phi Beta Iota: ClimateGate has outraged us for two reasons–first, the lack of integrity among the scientists and the selected United Nations officials concerned; and second, the naivete, ignorance, or corruption of government officials all too eager to create a new Global Warming Complex that profits from carbon trades (another form of phantom wealth) while …
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Hot Topics AA: Pentagon Manhunters: America’s New Murder, Inc.? 11/23/09 AA: Iran’s military forces stage war games 11/22/09 AR: Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA 11/20/09 AR: In Argentina, One Person Dies Every 28 Hours from Police Repression 11/21/09 BR: Brazil should use caution 11/25/09 BR: Italian ex-militant ends hunger strike in Brazil …
General comment: CIA leared how to run drugs and launder money in Viet-Nam at the same time that the Pentagon discovered the joys of a blank check. We have never recovered from that. When combined with the secret slush fund managed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the bottom line is that many things have …
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Pentagon preparing to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, official says CNN November 24, 2009 Pentagon planners expect orders to send about 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, a defense official told CNN, a day after the president’s final meeting to decide the next moves in Afghanistan. The military has planning under way to send three U.S. …
