The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Baseline Scenario What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it Falling Back On Waterloo with 76 comments By Simon Johnson, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown The bank lobbyists have the champagne out – the Brown-Kaufman amendment, which would have capped the size and leverage …
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Good quotes from the movie: + Jack Abramoff was the “perfect marriage of idealism and corruption.” + “Campaign finance is a system of legalized bribery.” What also comes to mind is Danny Schecter saying “I used to think of Wall Street as a financial center, now I think of it as a crime scene.” One …
No One Cares By Chris Hedges 3 May 2010 We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee camps. Thousands …
On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise Sharply By ALAN CULLISON Every war brings medical innovations, as horrific injuries force surgeons to come up with new ways to save lives. During the Civil War, doctors learned better ways to amputate limbs, and in World War I they developed the typhoid vaccine. World War II brought the …
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Panels and keynotes program schedule I was told via email from someone involved in the event that a video will be posted online.I will be posting this over a the Earth Institute blog (especially since it has zero comments for the March 25 event) as a challenge to improve the overall framework of the “State …
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The Tobin tax or Wall Street sales tax is rapidly gathering momentum thanks to a bid by British Labour Party MPs to save themselves from looming defeat at the hands of the Tories by playing this great economic populist card. If the Labour Party succeeds with this gambit, it will tend to transform the situation …
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A Perfectly Framed Assassination Stepped-up surveillance technology may be tipping the scales in the cat-and-mouse game between spies and their targets. Robert Baer on the current state of spycraft. EXTRACT: I can only speculate about where exactly the hit went wrong. But I would guess the assassins failed to account for the marked advance in …
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