The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Doug Rushkoff 5.0 out of 5 stars Rich Manifesto for Humanity — Hit Pause, Do NOT Let IT Fry Your Brain, March 21, 2013 In some ways this book picks up from Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway but it has its own structure …
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Singapore’s Lessons for an Unequal America By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ New York Times, 18 March 2013 Inequality has been rising in most countries around the world, but it has played out in different ways across countries and regions. The United States, it is increasingly recognized, has the sad distinction of being the most unequal advanced …
ON GOOD GAYS AND BAD GAYS. This is going to be controversial. We distinguish between normal gays who want to come out and be accepted as loving members of society, and sado-masochistic neo-Nazi gays who consider themselves above the law and desperately want to remain in the closet. Our views are well summarized by Robert …
Peace on Earth? The future of internal armed conflict Warfare seems endemic to mankind. Nations around the world are driven by conflict. But is the impetus to war decreasing? Håvard Hegre finds statistical grounds for hope. In my view, perhaps the most evident shortcoming is that our predictions ignore the importance of political systems – …
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The Fed’s Monetary Policy of Zero Interest Rates “A More Than Questionable Bernanke Fed Monetary Policy.” “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their …
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The Subprime Mortgage Crisis: A Perfect Example of the Potential Benefits of Open-Source Governance in the Real World The article: The Nature and Origin of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, (San Jose State University Department of Economics) says,”The guilt for the subprime mortgage financial crisis lies both with the lenders who knowingly put borrowers into booby …
