The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Snapshot of the crisis The 2010 south Kyrgyzstan riots are ongoing clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, primarily in the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, in the aftermath of the ouster of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. It is part of the larger 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis. Violence broke out on 9 June in …
Phi Beta Iota: Tip of the hat to Berto Jongman for this referral. The report is a classic exemplar of good people doing what they know and what they have been told to do, rather than what they need to do–Dr. Robert Ackoff called this “doing the wrong thing righter.” It is not possible to …
Nye, Joseph S. “Cyber Power.” Paper (30 Pages) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, May 2010 Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that smaller actors …
Rotting Oder of Pentagon Info Op Signals Effort to Shore Up its Great Game in the Hindu Kush On 13 June, James Risen of the New York Times conveniently (at least for the Pentagon and the war party) reported that the “United States has discovered $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan [also …
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Phi Beta Iota: The next Director of National Intelligence (DNI) should be required by Congress, as conditions for confirmation, to agree to open the entire Intelligence Community, every single one of the 953 codeword compartments (and the other 200+ that “don’t exist”); and to immediately and without further ado declassify all documents as required by …
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Author Robert Bryce 92 of 93 people found the following review helpful: Nutrition Action for Energy Appetites, April 16, 2010 By Jon Boone (Oakland, MD USA) – See all my reviews With Power Hungry, energy journalist and Austin apiarist Robert Bryce marshals lots of accurate numbers in context to make plain how modern culture exacts …
Good quotes from the movie: + Jack Abramoff was the “perfect marriage of idealism and corruption.” + “Campaign finance is a system of legalized bribery.” What also comes to mind is Danny Schecter saying “I used to think of Wall Street as a financial center, now I think of it as a crime scene.” One …
