The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Climategate: Science Is Dying (WS) The East Anglians’ mistreatment of scientists who challenged global warming’s claims—plotting to shut them up and shut down their ability to publish—evokes the attempt to silence Galileo. The exchanges between Penn State’s Michael Mann and East Anglia CRU director Phil Jones sound like Father Firenzuola, the Commissary-General of the Inquisition. …
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Foreign Service Office & Former Marine Resigns Full Explanation Letter Available Online This officer’s letter is both extraordinary and common–it is extraordinary in its demonstration of integrity and common sense, and common in that we all feel this way less a few craven individuals so enamoured of power they have forgotten where they left their …
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Blood for nothing GIs die while Taliban thrives Ralph Peters October 28, 2009 AFGHANISTAN isn’t com pletely hopeless, just use less. It’s a strategic joke with a bloody punch line. Even if everything went perfectly in Afghanistan — which it won’t — the results would be virtually meaningless: Our mortal enemies (above all, al Qaeda) …
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How Moody’s sold its ratings – and sold out investors Kevin G. Hall McClatchy Newspapers October 21, 2009 A McClatchy investigation has found that Moody’s punished executives who questioned why the company was risking its reputation by putting its profits ahead of providing trustworthy ratings for investment offerings. . . . . . . . …
Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft posted by Kroc Camen on Sat 17th Oct 2009 05:27 UTC Now a security hole has been found in a plugin that Microsoft have been silently installing into Firefox. Along with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft have been silently installing a Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin that allows the …
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We’ve spent a great deal of time reflecting on Paradigms of Failure, and in the course of our broad reading programs, been inspired by, among others, Will Durant (especially Philosophy and the Social Problem) and Buckminster Fuller (especially Critical Path). The central problem of our time is the failure of human organization–its failure to scale, …
October 12, 2009 Climate Myths and National Security By Viscount Monckton of Brenchley The President of the United States recently told the United Nations that “global warming” poses a threat to national security and may engender conflicts as populations are displaced by rising sea levels, droughts, floods, storms etc. etc. etc. However, it is now …
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