The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
White America is getting very angry. The below screed by Pat Buchanan has a great deal of substance to it, and is being picked up across New England and across the West and South. Buchanan’s letter to Obama by Vermont Woodchuck There is a kernel of truth in this, about the size of Gibraltar. Let …
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Turkey Update. Prime Minister Erdogan declared victory on Sunday, 12 September, as voters approved a constitutional reform package in a highly debated referendum that will restructure the judiciary and curb military powers. The referendum was regarded as a vote of confidence in Erdogan’s government. Prime Minister Erdogan dismissed concerns about his government moving towards an …
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This yields three adequate results, but the human in the loop can do better. Step One: Acknowledge and embrace the eight tribes of intelligence as stakeholders. Create, as Sweden did, a Cooperation Committee (the Swedes get annoyedwhen you call it a Coordination Committee). Step Two: Use the military, and particularly the National Guard or law …
Tea Partiers Bring Cause to Washington KATE ZERNIKE September 12, 2010 A crowd gathered around as a man dressed as George Washington read a passage from the Bible during the Tea Party Tax Payer March on Washington on Sunday. . . . . . . . “I believe we’ve got the Republican Party’s attention — …
Army Times article, second below, reports what the beginning of what I expect will be a major decline in functionality of Army computer systems. While some sort of institutional response to the alleged Wikileaks traitor, Specialist Bradley Manning, is appropriate, I don’t think this is it. This is a simplistic approach, the sort of thing …
Iraq: Time to Ring the Bell by Howard P. Hart 27 August 2010 Many years ago I attended a series of Headquarters briefings for out-going CIA Chiefs of Station. Our main speaker was Richard Helms, then the Agency’s Director and one of the lions of American foreign policy in the 1960’s and 70’s. A man …
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Human Responsibilities and Rights in the Shari’ah: An Advanced Primer Dr. Robert D. Crane Ibn Qayyim wrote: “The Islamic law is all about wisdom and achieving people’s welfare in this life and the afterlife. It is all about justice, mercy, wisdom, and good. Thus any ruling that replaces justice with injustice, mercy with its opposite, …
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