The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and Nahdatul Ulama (NU), with support from the governments of Germany and Sweden, co-hosted a workshop in Jakarta on 18-19 November 2009 to raise awareness of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy among civil society in Southeast Asia and explore the possibilities for greater civil society participation in efforts to …
Phi Beta Iota: The briefing below, flagged by Chuck Spinney from the New America Foundation, fails to make the one really big point: that PriceWaterHouseCoopers has found that 50% of all health care spending in the USA is WASTE. However, given the profit motive, that waste generates overhead, and so there is no incentive for …
History of Al Qaeda Part II History of Al Qaeda Part III Author’s Website Wikipedia Page About Author Steele 3-Page Review of the Work Phi Beta Iota: This document, in three parts (over 300 pages, Part I is the Executive Summary and front matter) is dated 1 September 2005 and was prepared for the …
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Five for the Voice, Four for the Substance December 12, 2009 Thom Hartmann Thom Hartmann is one of a handful of individuals that I consider to be true guides for the rest of us, and I consider two of his earlier books, Cracking the Code and SCREWED, to have been instrumental in my own transformation …
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Level of poverty Poor | Very poor | Extremely poor Green Serves rural areas Focus on women Fair trade Financial My financial return 1% – 3% | 4% – 6% When I get repaid Anytime | < 1 yr | 1 – 3 yrs | > 3 yrs My money is going to Single institution …
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Hot Topics AA: EU says Bosnia almost ready, but trouble still looms 11/29/09 AA: EU Set To Lift Visas For Three Balkan States 11/30/09 AA: Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah announces new manifesto 11/30/09 BG: Berbatov flees Bulgaria following kidnap threat 12/01/09 CZ: Czech Intelligence Reveals Iraqi Plot To Attack RFE/RL 11/30/09 IT: No Mafia links …
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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