The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
William F. Pepper An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King April 12, 2008 Host of Air America’s Clout, Richard Greene, hosts the author of An Act of State, William Pepper, who represented James Earl Ray on behalf of the Martin Luther King family and is now representing RFK patsy Sirhan Sirhan. Listen 00:36:23 …
Sen Hagel, if confirmed as SECDEF, may start firing Service Secretaries. Keeping Acquisition and Intelligence will be a sure sign that nothing is actually going to change. Sources: Carter, Others Expected To Stay By Zachary Fryer-Biggs and Marcus Weisgerber Washington Post, 21 January 2013 Although the transition between presidential terms is usually marked by large-scale personnel …
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How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective by Maria Popova “A man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” “The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts,” wrote James …
To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night. –YODA, Dark Rendezvous China’s Urban Air Kills Rural Plants As people in Beijing and northern China struggle with severe air pollution this winter, the toxic air is also making life hard for plants …
Before Fruit Ninja, Cybernetics By WILL WILES New York Times, November 29, 2012 EXTRACT (Conclusion) The No. 10 Dashboard taps into the same desire to master available information — a desire that has only grown as the amount of information in circulation has increased. Where Cybersyn needed dedicated national infrastructure and rooms full of equipment, …
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The attached report by Greg Jaffe in the Washington Post (from 1 August 2012) is an excellent case study of the inside-the-beltway networking by the players in the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC). Jaffe shows these networks build a consensus to keep defense spending high when wars end and a terrifying peace dividend …
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In my recent post Theophillis Goodyear: Networks of Corruption—-Critical Mass—-Divided Loyalties—-Dilemmas of Betrayal—-Sacrifice—-the Harm of Innocents—-The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number I said I was unaware of any other books that are specifically about loyalty, but I found this one: Why Loyalty Matters: The Groundbreaking Approach to Rediscovering Happiness, Meaning and Lasting Fulfillment in …
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