The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Force: How much military is enough? by Jill Lepore New Yorker, January 28, 2013 Sixty-two legislators sit on the House Armed Services Committee, the largest committee in Congress. Since January, 2011, when Republicans took control of the House, the committee has been chaired by Howard P. McKeon, who goes by Buck. He has never …
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Tangible: (14,000). Intangible: TBD Robert Steele lost everything when his conference was stolen in 2007 and 2008 by then ADDNI/OS, Eliot Jardines (who prior to being appointed visited Steele and promised not to do that), and his clearances were rescinded in 2006 by a (then) corrupt Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) process that …
Hybrid, force is. A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age Hybrid Pedagogy, 22 January 2013 On December 14, 2012, a group of 12 assembled in Palo Alto for a raucous discussion of online education. Hybrid Pedagogy contributors Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel gathered together with folks from a diverse …
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Abandon Integrity, All Ye that Gain Power? Activism – Andrew “K`Tetch” Norton: If we had any doubt of the reason we need to be extra vigilant in our work, this month has provided them in spades. But there is one thing that ties everything together, and that is the matter of integrity, and accountability. Through …
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The Asia Pivot–with “Air-Sea Battle” deeply embedded into it–has become the accepted wisdom in Washington for America’s post-Afghanistan national security strategy. Is it affordable? Is it competent? Is it even a strategy? It also presents a useful test for SecDef-designate Hagel’s ability to separate the wheat from the chaff regarding defense issues. While Hagel has already shredded–to …
Here is a very sound paper on the activities of the pro-GMO lobby, and their assault on the integrity of science. The pro-GM lobby’s seven sins against science Peter Melchett Soil Association, 17 December 2012 The role that genetically modified (GM) food should play in our food chain is a highly contested political issues. One …
Recommended! Coming out 12 February 2013. “Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what’s gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is not only telling …
