The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dan Gillmor originally shared this post: Wow. Henry Blodget has discovered and pulled out incredible stuff from a document filed with the SEC by a former senior employee at Moody’s, one of the big-3 securities ratings agencies. Moody’s is partly owned by a company in which I’ve owned stock for many years: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire …
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The S&P Downgrade Market Plunge Myth Monday 15 August 2011 by: Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis The Wall Street crew that wants to cut your Social Security and Medicare benefits are sensing that victory is in sight. They have managed to knock jobs completely off the agenda and have made deficit reduction the near …
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Butts in seats would be a good place to start in most cases….. A golden decade for defense companies is ending Associated Press, 15 August 2011 NEW YORK – The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, Osama bin Laden is dead, and the federal government is deeply in debt. This spells the end …
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Making an Enemy of Iran By Patrick Seale Agence Global, 2 August 2011 It is now widely accepted – and lamented — that US President Barack Obama failed dismally in attempting to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Defeated by Israel’s hard-line Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and by Israel’s friends in the U.S. — …
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Phi Beta Iota: For a half century the US Intelligence Community has “pushed” hard target “intelligence” downstream while refusing to do Global Coverage. In the late 1980’s it started to hear customer complaints about wanting to “pull” relevant information. Today the US Intelligence Community is completely isolated from 90% or so of the direct end-users, …
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Below is an excellent example of scare-mongering and ideologically-rooted media froth. The morning after Joe Scarborough WASHINGTON, D.C.— Aug. 3, 2011 It was a financial storm that even an economics professor could see coming. The debt crisis that had gripped Washington for a month came to a sudden, horrifying climax that left America’s economy looking …
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