The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Almost a Five–Making Wrong Things Righter February 21, 2010 Beth Simone Noveck I sat down intending to make this a five, but the two fluff reviews have to be off-set. Robert Ackoff would say this is a spectacular book about making the wrong things righter instead of the right things righter–too many lawyers and focused …
Beyond Six Stars–Hugely Important Useful Collection February 20, 2010 Edited by Sokari Ekine Contributing authors include Redante Asuncion-Reed, Amanda Atwood, Ken Banks, Chrstinia Charles-Iyoha, Nathan Eagle, Sokari Ekine, Becky Faith, Joshua Goldstein, Christian Kreutz, Anil Naidoo, Berna Ngolobe, Tanya Notley, Juliana Rotich, and Bukeni Wazuri This book will be rated 6 Stars and Beyond at …
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Starting in the fall of 2008, the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Center for Public Integrity fielded a team of reporters to examine how effectively governments at all levels had managed money and programs dedicated to homeland security. The result was a series of stories — and an interactive map — that have been …
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The Making of a Euromess (New York Times) By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times, 15 Feb 2010 For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn’t the whole, or even the main, source of Europe’s troubles — not even in Greece, whose government was indeed irresponsible (and hid its irresponsibility with creative accounting). No, …
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Answer … it depends … Attached is a very revealing BBC interview with Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. It should be read carefully with an eye to what is said and not said. Note that Jones acknowledges that the time for debate over climate science …
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Generally Word Press search, which updates constantly, is much better with simpler searches. Searching only for cammaert produces the following hits that we have resorted in relative order of value (Wrod Press delivers in reverse chronological order). General Patrick Cammaert, RN NL (Ret) is the best qualified person we know to be the first Assistant-Secretary …
Personal from Robert Steele. Although this search yields some links, we’d like to do a little better for you. Here are a few observations: 1) If you are only working with 20% of the relevant information, you cannot connect dots that lie outside that 20%. We live in a complex globalized environment in which everything …
