The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Autonomous Internet [or Autonomous Free Distributed Internet for the elderly] is the new meme in town, inspired by the role of Facebook and Twitter as well as the rapidly developed Internet Work-Arounds that were developed by a huge network of great-hearted citizens. Freedom Box is an idea, not a capability, but it holds enormous potential, …
Wikileaks Goes After The Saudi Royal Family Gus Lubin | Feb. 28, 2011, 6:28 AM Business Insider Wikileaks just released a motherload of info on the taboo subject of Saudi Arabian royal rents. The 1996 cable — entitled “Saudi Royal Wealth: Where do they get all that money?” — describes legal and illegal ways that …
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Weekend Edition February 25 – 26, 2011 A Jittery GCC: Bahrain and the “Freedom Contagion” By RANNIE AMIRI, Counterpunch “Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends. It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” – Dr. Toby Jones, expert on Saudi …
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O3b Networks delivers broadband connectivity everywhere on Earth within 45 degrees of latitude north and south of the equator. Our vast coverage area includes emerging and insufficiently connected markets in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, with a collective population of over 3 billion people. SatMagazine 2010 Year In Review on O3b …
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This is a follow up to that 13 February Spinney piece on predicting the future, DARPA as Poster Child for Out of Control Budget. It belongs to the category of “we don’t make this stuff up.” Speaking of this category, I think this latest incident in Pakistan (CIA contractor shoots two Pakistanis in broad daylight, …
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Phi Beta Iota: With a tip of the hat to Rolling Stone and author Matt Taibbi, reproducing the entire article was the only way to show the emphasis added by Brother Chuck. Updated to add photo and observe that this particular article is rocketing around the Internet. See also our review of GRIFTOPIA. UPDATE: Three …
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No intelligence, no strategy, no nothing. For this we pay taxes? In U.S. Signals to Egypt, Obama Straddled a Rift (NYT) Summary: State still loves dictators, has no idea what is going on with the young and the restless. Intelligence is no where to be found. Bottom line is that the President, who appears to …
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