The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The next 90-180 days may well bring the creative destruction of predatory immoral capitalism and the emergence of resilient moral capitalism.
āWe are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, letās say, in Greece. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable.ā (George Soros, 2011)
What is collapsing is the predatory Western system of financial terrorism against governments and publics.Ā This is an opportunity for creative destruction and the renaissance of the Greek economy as well as the restoration of integrity ā trust ā as a foundation for a prosperous world at peace.Ā In the process, capitalism will morph from top-down manipulative finance to bottom-up resilient community capitalism.Ā It will also be redirected from a focus on making toxic things for the one billion rich to making useful lasting things for the five billion poor whose annual income is four times that of the one billion rich, four trillion dollars a year.Ā Those governments that adapt to reality-based hybrid collaborative resilience will prosper–those that persist in trying to micro-manage that which they do not understand and those whom they cannot control, will fail.
Below are two current articles and two of the most popular book reviews on this web site, as well as an updated Reflections on Integrity.
The real Greek economy: owners, rentiers and opportunists
Aristos Doxiadis, OpenEconomy, 23 September 2010
California and Bust
Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair, November 2011
Review: GriftopiaāBubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Review: The Genius of the Beast–A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED
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Those ‘Coining the Blood of War' Should Sacrifice Too
Dallas Darling
WN.com, 30 September 2011
In 1919, immediately after World War One but still during the United States' military occupations of Russia and China, Hiram Johnson, the former reform governor of California who served in the Senate, spoke for many who feared American involvement in the Great War might continue to generate obscene profits for armaments makers. To ensure that corporate interests and their futuristic manufactured wars did not reap unfair gains from the war taxes imposed on citizens, Johnson proposed that the government make the defense industry contribute toward the expenses of war.
Phi Beta Iota:Ā This assumes government with integrity.
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Review: GriftopiaāBubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality
Without a shred of due process, far from any battlefield, President Obama succeeds in killing Anwar al-Awlaki
Glenn Greenwald
Salon, 30 September 2011
The US Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki and the Blurring of Bright Lines
E. D. Kain
Forbes, 30 September 2011
The Obama administration has demonstrated once again, as it did in Libya and as itās done in a variety of surveillance cases, that its view of executive power in the arena of national security is hardly any less expansive than Dick Cheneyās was. The fact that this was predictable makes it no less alarming.
Continue reading “Mini-Me: Assassination – Made in America – At What Cost? Impeachable Treason.”
Peter Van Buren
Ā 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Stars & Beyond–Open Heart Surgury on a Corrupt Ignorant Government,September 29, 2011
FINAL REVIEW
The author himself begins the book with a reference to Dispatches (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) followed by Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition, to which I would add A Rumor of War. This is a great book, an important book, and I salute the Department of State people with integrity that approved it for publication, while scorning the seventh floor craven autocrats that have bullied the author for telling the truth. This book is the real deal, and I have multiple notes along the lines of gifted writing, humble *and* erudite, quiet humor, ample factual detail, gonzo-gifted prose, an eye for compelling detail, *absorbing,* a catalog of absurdities and how not to occupy a country.
Late in my notes I write “Reality so rich it stuns. A time capsule, priceless deep insights into occupation at its worst.”
And also write down an alternative subtitle: “The Zen of Government Idiocy Squared.”
This is a book, from a single vantage point, of the specifics of “pervasive waste and inefficiency, mistaken judments, flawed policies, and structural weakness.” Speaking of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT), the author says “We were the ones who famously helped past together feathers year after year, hoping for a duck.”
