The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Search Wizards Speak: Oleg Rogynskyy, Semantria Semantria focuses on a class of problems that a few years ago would have been outside the reach of many firms. He said: We make it simple for our clients to solve the following problems: First, some organizations have too much text to read. For example, a Twitter stream …
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Here is another really excellent essay by SR reader and best selling author Larry Dossey. It provides a guide map to how in the domain of nonlocal consciousness we are all linked, all life is interdependent, and inter-connected. 7 Billion Minds, or One? LARRY DOSSEY, MD – The Huffington Post “I felt there was no …
It’s the second time that I go back to this insightful article by Jonathan Stray, dating back to 2011, but which was visionary and rightful then as it is still now. The first time I did, right after it came out, I didn’t actually realize in full how relevant and important was the idea being …
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1. Ricks fails to understand that military strategy and policy do not exist in a vacuum. The White House and Congress both have votes that can be decisive. Shinseki and Franks were closer to right w/r/t force requirements for Iraq than was Rumsfeld. Further, Jerry Bremer unbelievably complicated Iraq by de-Baathification and dissolutionn of the …
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Privacy: This week, the European Parliament voted to immediately suspend the sharing of European financial tracking data with the United States in a 280-254 decision, as well as calling for criminal investigations of the NSA. This follows in the footsteps of mass surveillance revelations that the NSA has illegally hacked into the SWIFT financial data. …
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Attached is a thoughtful essay in which Israeli war hero (1948), ex-Knesset member, and peace activist Uri Avnery examines the likenesses and differences between Israel and Apartheid South Africa. Chuck Spinney ————————————————– WEEKEND EDITION OCTOBER 25-27, 2013 South African Apartheid was Brought Down by the Blacks Themselves Is Israel an Apartheid State? by URI AVNERY, …
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It is easy to look at the shutdown and the concomitant chaos in federal government as the product of incompetence and corruption. But it was a deliberate effort by a vocal congressional minority from safe, cynically gerrymandered, congressional districts to sabotage the functioning of the entire federal government. One would think that a deliberate effort …
