The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Undeniable Genius Isolated from Other Movements January 4, 2010 David Gershon This book is a work of undeniable genius and to that I would add peseverence–the author and his wife Gail Straub have been on the forefront of the personal empowerment movement from the late 1970’s onward, and in many ways this book is a …
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The Revolution Will Be Mapped GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like. Bob Burtman | December 28, 2009 The institute’s maps played a vital role in a federal jury’s decision last year to …
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The Radical Legacy Of 1979 By Edward. P. Djerejian If ever one year in recent times was a catalyst for change in the broader Middle East and Muslim world, it was 1979. One ray of bright light in that year of darkness was the signing of the historic Camp David peace treaty between Israel and …
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Look Ahead With Stoicism—and Optimism While so many of our institutions have failed, we can repair them. The first step is to take personal responsibility. Maybe the most worrying trend the past 10 years can be found in this phrase: “They forgot the mission.” So many great American institutions—institutions that every day help hold us …
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Heads set to roll as Obama goes on attack over security failures that allowed Christmas Day bomber on to plane A senior aide said Obama would seek accountability at the highest levels for the failure, a remark some observers took to mean that heads would roll. The terrorist plot to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight …
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Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem By SHELBY STEELE I would argue further that Barack Obama’s election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there—all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of …
UPDATE 3: Obama summons intelligence chiefs to White House meeting Comment: This is pathetic. No one now serving in the White House is capable of telling the President the truth–that our $75 billion a year is wasted, that the agencies are suffering from 1950’s mindsets with 1970’s technology and security and legal blinders that are …
