The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: EU says Bosnia almost ready, but trouble still looms 11/29/09 AA: EU Set To Lift Visas For Three Balkan States 11/30/09 AA: Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah announces new manifesto 11/30/09 BG: Berbatov flees Bulgaria following kidnap threat 12/01/09 CZ: Czech Intelligence Reveals Iraqi Plot To Attack RFE/RL 11/30/09 IT: No Mafia links …
Brazil Wins WTO Approval to Sanction U.S. Over Cotton (Update2) Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Brazil won the World Trade Organization’s approval to start retaliating against the U.S. because of subsidies paid to American cotton farmers. The WTO gave Brazil permission in August to impose $294.7 million in sanctions against U.S. goods — the second-highest amount …
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Chuck Spinney Sends: Viewed at the level of epistemology, the distinction be the search for truth in science and religion is stark: In science the structure of the world view — i.e., the brain’s interior model of reality — is evolved to match observations taken from the external world, whereas in religion, observations are evolved …
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Obama’s Options in Afghanistan But whatever the weight given to those historical analogies, it seems clear, from the sampling of American opinion we can take from the blogs that have reached this Web site since we posted “Obama’s Options in Afghanistan” as our latest topic, that many Americans have already concluded that the American enterprise …
Phi Beta Iota: ClimateGate has outraged us for two reasons–first, the lack of integrity among the scientists and the selected United Nations officials concerned; and second, the naivete, ignorance, or corruption of government officials all too eager to create a new Global Warming Complex that profits from carbon trades (another form of phantom wealth) while …
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Hot Topics AA: EU can insist on a withdrawal of Armenian forces from Azerbaijan 11/23/09 AA: Report: Israel set to leave Lebanese Ghajar village 11/26/09 AA: Former Mexican Prime Minister: “Chavez makes huge weapons purchases in Belarus” 11/23/09 AZ: US cannot pressure Armenia to withdraw its occupying forces from Karabakh 11/23/09 AZ: ICRC representatives in …
7 Stars–Nobel Prize (Of Old, Before Devalued) – Life Transformative Insights November 28, 2009 Robert Wright QUOTE: “Non-zero-sumness is a kind of potential–a potential for overall gain, or for overall loss, depending on how the game is played.” This book is one of the most sophisticated, deep, documented, and influential I have ever read, right …
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