The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
U.S. encouraged to allow firms to retaliate against hackers Throwing money at creating cyberpolice forces and technology to keep up with digital threats may not be the only tactics the U.S. will employ in the future. As a meeting between President Obama and the new president of China, Xi Jinping, draws near, former senior officials …
It is amazing how an inexpensive technological development can render irrelevant billions of dollars of investment. In this case the security apparatus of Homeland Security. When I did the original 3-D printing story about three years ago the printers cost $50,000. Just a few weeks ago, when these printers hit the news big time the …
Huh? Detainees, U.S. guards clash at Guantanamo Bay Carlos Warner, a U.S. lawyer representing some of those detainees, told CNN late last month detainees have become increasingly frustrated with “very dire, dire conditions” and their sense that the current legal process leaves them in limbo indefinitely. “It leaves them with the prospect of the only …
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From the article: “In the arsenal of eternal skeptics there are few tools more dramatically and more commonly used than Ockham’s razor. It is triumphantly applied to resolve arguments about ghosts (more parsimoniously seen as misperceptions by distraught family members or the suggestible), UFOs (evidently hoaxes and mistaken observations of natural phenomena) and telepathy (a …
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TSA to Remove Controversial X-ray Scanners JOSHUA FREED , Business Writer – The Associated Press We spent several billion dollars on this this ill-conceived program, and it has come to this. Monsanto Versus the People CHARLOTTE SILVER – Aljazeera (Qatar) Prop 37 went down in California thanks to a million dollar a day ad campaign …
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Cost growth in the last year in DOD’s acquisition system was $74 billion, 34 percent more than the $55 billion presumed to occur in the sequester in January; while the time frames are different (see discussion below), so much for Secretary of Defense Panetta’s asinine rhetoric that sequester would be a “Doomsday.” Analysis of two recent acquisition reports …
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The Enigma of Israel (CounterPunch) Fukushima Roulette (CounterPunch) Will Corporations Prevent the Singularity? (IEET) The Death of Investigative Journalism (CounterPunch) Corps, Army to restart ‘forcible entry’ drills (Army Times) The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (WIRED) Guantanamo Prison’s True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington (OpEd News) US and Iranian …
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