The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“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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Ten Black Swans for 2011 By Christian A. DeHaemer | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 Energy & Capital 1. China real estate bubble pops. 2. Spain defaults 3. Decade of natural gas 4. Uranium companies surge 5. China clings to dollar, riots ensue 6. Farm land jumps in price 7. Dow has four 10% corrections in …
5 Overlooked Stories (CSM) 1. Stuxnet 2. TARP is Cheap 3. Common School Standards 4. Rise of Natural Gas 5. Twilight of the Desktop 20 Hopeful Stories (YES! Magazine) 1. Climate Crisis Response Takes a New Direction 2. Wikileaks Lifts the Veil 3. Momentum is Building for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons …
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2011: A Brave New Dystopia truthdig, Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Chris Hedges The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive …
30 December 2010 Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears (BBC) The WikiLeaks War on America (Commentary) The Dark Side of Wikileaks (Atlanta Post) Assange: I’ll reveal info that will spark Arab world coups (YNETNews) Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA (CBSNews) WikiLeaks founder vows to release all files in case of death or …
REMINDER: Environmental Degradation, not Climate Change, is High-Level Threat #3. Climate Change is less than 10% of that, and within Climate Change, mercury and sulfer are more important than carbon. Furthermore, it is not possible to address any one threat without addressing the other nine (e.g. #1 Poverty) with harmonized policies from Agriculture to Water, …
