The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Yves Smith Product Description Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk. But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. ECONned is the first …
7 December 2010 Paul Krugman Reviews the Movie (NYT) 8 October 2010 Inside Job: The Antidote to the TARP Celebrations By Dean Baker – October 8, 2010, 8:08PM Charles Ferguson’s new movie, Inside Job, is a fast-moving and fascinating account of the process and the people who wrecked the economy with their blind ambition and …
Robert David Steele Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design Posted: December 7, 2010 07:48 AM Citizens Fiddle, Obama Dances When things are not going well, until you get the truth out on the table, no matter how ugly, you are not in a position to deal with it. — Bob Seelert, Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide (New …
Financial Crime December 7, 2010 From the Deficit Panic to the TARP Financial Collapse Tales of Economic Apocalypse By DEAN BAKER, Counterpunch In short, the horror story collapses as soon as anyone gives it any serious thought. The Wall Street gang can hardly be faulted for trying cheap scare tactics for pushing its agenda; after …
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Save Obama – by running against him By Michael Lerner The Washington Post Saturday, December 4, 2010 EXTRACT: The basic platform for such a candidate is clear: Unequivocally call for an immediate end to the presence of U.S. troops, advisers and private U.S.-based security firms in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and replace the “war on …
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A World That Works for All Building on last week’s REVIEW: Buckminster Fuller’s 1928 Ideas & Integrities this week I want to honor one new book and reinforce that book with mention and links to several others, all of which make the same point in different ways: we have the power to design a world …
EDIT of 5 Dec 2010 to add commentaries by various others. Op-Ed Columnist The Fragile Community By DAVID BROOKS Published: November 29, 2010 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, had moved 37 times by the time he reached his 14th birthday. His mother didn’t enroll him in the local schools because, as Raffi Khatchadourian wrote …
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