The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
JIEDDO spent north of $1 Billion and climbing and was not able to do what these guys have….. Researchers Say Laser Could Detect Roadside Bombs By Chloe Albanesius PCMag.com, September 19, 2011 Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a laser that could be used to detect roadside bombs, also known as improvised explosive devices …
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Below is a dynamite op-ed on the cost of the so-called war on terror by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz. Without being critical, I think at least two additional aspects to these costs make the picture even worse than they say. 1. Some people in this [let them eat] cake walk became — and are …
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Not only is the Super Committee headed straight for failure, the “automatic” cuts that would happen in the Pentagon budget are not going to occur. To “save” the Pentagon budget from further cuts, it’s doomsday for budget restraint in the short term. The only thing to be elevated for the longer term and foreseeable future is …
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For years and years, advocates of big defense spending have argued there is a major economic benefit — jobs. These claims are ever more strident now because of high unemployment and threats to further growth in the defense budget. Hearing the footsteps on the unaffordable, underperforming F-35, Lockheed, among others, touts the jobs they pretend the program creates. The defense …
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EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …
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Secretary of Defense Panetta used an invitation to the National War College as an opportunity to lobby against cutting the defense budget more than the $350 billion he has already agreed to. In the absence of any informed or probing questions, Panetta’s extreme rhetoric has also oozed into new Washington DC hysteria resulting from reports …
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