The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How US Policy on Iran Came to Be Based on Fabricated Documents Gareth Porter The Nation, 9 June 2014 The key “evidence” of an Iranian nuclear weapons program comes via the MEK, a cult-like terrorist group—and was likely produced by Israel.
GEN(R) Shinseki is catching flak, perhaps justified, perhaps not, for the deepening VA scandal. Invite your attention to attached as an indicator of what the man is capable of. Only issue I ever had with him was the black beret for everyone matter. EXTRACT: I think it ¡s important to point out that the Vision …
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Workshop on Mass Collaboration – Day One Introduction to the Workshop – Ulrike Cress Why a workshop in mass collaboration? Recent mass phenomena: Wikipedia, tagging, blogging, Scratch, massive open online courses and connectivism, citizen science, maker-space Who is creating these? Nature article on massively collaborative mathematics (see the wiki PolyMath). How do we describe these …
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Phi Beta Iota: We identify food that kills people — and demand it be taken off the market. Should we do the same with bullets? Identification of Bullets: human right and human responsibility? Introduction Much is made of the implications of the arms trade and the spread of weapons, notably manufactured by the permanent members …
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India-Russia-Afghanistan: India, Russia and Afghanistan quietly have created a triangular arrangement for providing arms aid to Afghanistan after NATO withdraws. None of the countries have made an official announcement. Only a small number of news services, including The Moscow Times and Pakistani newspapers, have published articles about it. The arrangement was finalized in February when …
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Rahul Sagar 5.0 out of 5 stars Highlights from Steven Aftergood’s Review at Lawfare, April 9, 2014 I tried to prevail on Steven Aftergood to repost his rave review at Lawfare here but for various reasons that was not possible. I’ve looked at this book but Steven is vastly superior to me in his contextual …
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Mary Ellen Bates, perhaps American’s #1 Super-Searcher still active, provides an up to the minute 27 slide briefing packs with tips and tools offering new approaches and new resources for any web researcher. Super Searcher Tips – Computers in Libraries from Mary Ellen Bates
