The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles” Food For Thought If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally … You might live in a country run by idiots. If you have to get …
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Brazil: The demonstrations are starting to turn violent. The day after the government revoked the transportation fare increases the demonstrations swelled again and engaged in more aggressive clashes with police. President Dilma Rousseff decided to call off a visit to Japan that was planned for next week. The forthcoming visit by Pope Francis might also …
Using Big Data to Inform Poverty Reduction Strategies My colleagues and I at QCRI are spearheading a new experimental Research and Development (R&D) project with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) team in Cairo, Egypt. Colleagues at Harvard University, MIT and UC Berkeley have also joined the R&D efforts as full-fledged partners. The research question: can …
by Lisa Savage and Janet Weil The omnibus military spending bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) rolled out of the House Armed Services Committee pulling a trailer load of amendments and barreling down an increasingly potholed road. In the same week as news broke of massive school closings in Chicago and Philadelphia …
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I’ve been watching three areas the past few months: 01 Afghanistan and the non-existent exit strategy 02 NSA and the implosion of accountability in the US IC 03 Veteran suicides, active duty sexual assaults, and “the German disease” From where I sit, the senior leadership across the national security community and deep into every corner …
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June 7, 2013. The payroll jobs report for May released today continues the fantasy. Goods producing jobs declined, with manufacturing losing another 4,000 jobs, but the New Economy produced 179,000 service jobs. Are these jobs the high-powered, high-wage “innovation jobs” that economists promised would be our reward from Globalism. I’m afraid not. According to the …
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Here is the latest in the breakdown of the middle class. As you read this, remember the Pew study on women, and the lower cohort in poverty. We are becoming a second world country, with a crumbling infrastructure, an uber-rich class, an oversized military, and what amounts to a growing impoverished prole class mesmerized by …
Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Half of USA In or Near Poverty — And It Is Getting Worse”
