The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Obama administration’s $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere “pin-prick” to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the good of the republic, a former Reagan administration budget director recently told Raw Story. . . . . . . . The ‘Ponzi scheme’ of ‘artificial prosperity’ Stockman, who described …
Army’s “Spiritual Fitness” Test Comes Under Fire Jason Leopold TruthOut Wednesday 05 January 2011 Test Was Designed by Psychologist Who Inspired CIA’s Torture Program An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration’s torture program is under fire by civil rights groups …
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“We’ve Heard All This About American Decline Before.” This time it’s different. It’s certainly true that America has been through cycles of declinism in the past. Campaigning for the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy complained, “American strength relative to that of the Soviet Union has been slipping, and communism has been advancing steadily in …
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1 January 2011 Haiti: One Year Later (TheNonProfitTimes) Haitians live in a make-shift camp close to the airport. Port au Prince Haiti was rocked by a massive earthquake, Tuesday January 12, devastating the city and leaving thousands dead. Photo Marco Dormino 31 December 2010 FILE – In this Nov. 13, 2010 file photo, an ambulance …
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Decision-support (intelligence) is the ultimate objective of information processes. One must carefully distinguish between data which is raw text, signal, or image; information which is collated data of generic interest; and intelligence which is information tailored to support a specific decision… Robert David Steele Vivas On Intelligence (AFCEA, 2000) As noted in an earlier Journal …
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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) was created to examine how the terrorist attacks of September 2001 could have occurred and what could be done to prevent future attacks. Among other things the Commission recommended that there should be a National Intelligence Director who would have “two main areas …
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Robert Fisk: Stay out of trouble by not speaking to Western spies The Independent, 18 December 2010 Almost 30 years ago, a British diplomat asked me to lunch in Beirut. Despite rumours to the contrary, she told me on the phone, she was not a spy but a mere attaché, wanting only to chat about …
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