The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
General Flynn to Head DIA: Exile or Reward? General Michael Flynn (USA) has been nominated to become the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in spite of or because of his severe criticisms of the inability of the U.S. Intelligence System to produce useful strategic intelligence on Afghanistan. As a result among the small …
Hardware Über Alles in the Spendagon (Note to Readers, the following essay is a revised version of one that appeared in Time Magazine’s Battleland blog found at this link.) For a good example of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex’s (MICC’s) value system — which is hardware before ideas and people — read this New York Times column by Nicholas …
Evolving Towards a Partner State in an Ethical Economy Reality Sandwich, 4 April 2012 In the emerging institutional model of peer production, most visibly in the free software industry, we can distinguish an interplay between three partners, i.e. 1) a community of contributors that create a commons of knowledge, software or design; 2) an enterpreneurial …
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R. D. Laing eventually decided that society is far more insane than any individual, and that the most insane among us are the ones who can adapt to this insanity without blinking and promote it as being perfectly normal. The most sane among us are those who are so sensitive that they wither under this …
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What I learned from the HASC hearing on the F-35 this past Tuesday is described below in a piece at Time’s Batteland blog. Predictably, aside from the new GAO testimony, the subcommittee exposed nothing, except about itself. There is a possible way out of the non-oversight mess, but I doubt there is any interest in …
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Anthony J. Hall 5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Time and Effort- A Transformative Journey, October 17, 2010 Carol Liane Brouillet “9-11 activist” (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Earth into Property is the second book in a series, the first being The American Empire and the Fourth World: The Bowl With One Spoon, which together …
Josef Avesar 5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense, Great Virtue,March 3, 2012 This is a *very* nice book, easy to read, well-ordered, full of common sense and a totally righteous contribution. The sadness is that there is nothing rational about how the Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs, and intervening (or abdicating) great powers are approaching the …
