The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
PART I: The Only Way to Fix the Deficit–Multiply Jobs (William Drayton) PART II: Nice Ideas But So Is Icing Cover Feces (Robert Steele) PART III: Create Jobs? As an End In Themselves? To Do What? Why? (Alexander Carpenter) PART IV: Related Recommended Reading (Robert Steele) The core take-away (from PART III) Beyond its inherent …
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How Can the Economy Recover? DECEMBER 23, 2010 Jeff Madrick Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro FT Press, 266 pp., $26.99 Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis by Anatole Kaletsky …
Shining a Brighter Light on Dark Places: Improving the IAEA’s Use of Intelligence through Cooperation with NATO By Michael Hertzberg Center for Strategic & International Studies Dec 21, 2010 One possible improvement to the IAEA’s monitoring and verification regime would be enhancing the IAEA’s use of intelligence by formalizing cooperation with a multilateral security organization …
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Aldous Huxley Would Be Proud by Kelley B. Vlahos, December 14, 2010 EXTRACT: British novelist Aldous Huxley was a social critic and futurist, who is best known for penning Brave New World, which, aside from being a nearly 80-year-old science fiction masterpiece, is both an allegory and prophecy for 21st Century western society. Huxley’s finger …
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From Virtual Secretary of Defense Purpose The purpose of this memorandum is to establish priorities for my strategic objectives through 2012 and pending the concurrence of a new president with a proper staff, 2020. There is no such thing as strategic guidance for one year. This document informs without directing anyone. Intent My intent is …
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Your Apps Are Watching You A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Wall Street Journal, Sunday, December 18, 2010 Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the …
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