The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One has to wonder how General Eric Ken Shinseki, USA (Ret) is faring as the 7th Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Out of War, Out of Luck: For Veterans, Skills Learned In Service Don’t Translate To Employment Laura Bassett, 13 April 2010 Huffington Post WASHINGTON — When Eric Smith, 26, returned home after his second tour …
Dr. Stephen Blank, one of America’s top experts on Russia and the former satellites of the USSR, likens US Intelligence to a clipping service, a very bad one. He itemizes the recent failures of US Intelligence and observes that anyone in the audience he was addressing in NYC could have written a better threat estimate …
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Phi Beta Iota: With a tip of the hat to Rolling Stone and author Matt Taibbi, reproducing the entire article was the only way to show the emphasis added by Brother Chuck. Updated to add photo and observe that this particular article is rocketing around the Internet. See also our review of GRIFTOPIA. UPDATE: Three …
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Crummy result on Phi Beta Iota: Worth a Look (DVD): The Day Before Disclosure Should have pulled up at least these two books and the list: Review: Forbidden Knowledge–From Prometheus to Pornography Review: Hidden Truth–Forbidden Knowledge Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Disinformation, Other Information Pathologies, & Repression Human in the loop add-ons: Review: Imperial …
John J. Mearsheimer Cornerstone, Not the Whole Building January 2, 2011 By no stretch should this book be dismissed as a three. While I might normally have gone with a four, I am settling on five for balance and because the author not only covers an extraordinarily important topic in a sensible measured way, but …
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Nicaragua Government Took Bribes From Drug Traffickers, Cable Says December 9, 2010 Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega’s government accepts bribes from drug traffickers, harbors terrorists and attempts to endear itself to Iran, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. By Samuel Rubenfeld U.S. diplomats accused Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government of taking bribes from drug traffickers in …
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EDIT of 5 Dec 2010 to add commentaries by various others. Op-Ed Columnist The Fragile Community By DAVID BROOKS Published: November 29, 2010 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, had moved 37 times by the time he reached his 14th birthday. His mother didn’t enroll him in the local schools because, as Raffi Khatchadourian wrote …
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