The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Military men are ‘dumb, stupid animals to be used’ as pawns for foreign policy. As quoted in Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, The Final Days (Simon & Schuster, 2005), Chapter 14, page
4GW is Alive and Well William S. Lind 25 May 2013 So “the world simply didn’t develop along the lines it (4GW) proposed”? How do you say that in Syriac? The basic error in Chet Richards’ piece of April 19, “Is 4GW dead?” is confusing the external and internal worlds. Internally, in the U.S. military and …
Former FCC Commissioner: Big Media Dumbs Down Democracy By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company 05 December 12 EXTRACT 1: Moyers: The argument we hear in rebuttal is “Well look, we don’t have to worry about monopoly today, we don’t have to worry about cartels today, because we have the Internet, which is the most democratic …
Exclusive: Petraeus biography ghostwriter breaks silence Post local editor Vernon Loeb, who ghostwrote Paula Broadwell’s David Petraeus biography, offers his impressions of Broadwell and thoughts on the scandal. The one question I never answered was why General Patraeus was granting such extraordinary access to a reporter. She was the only one with access to …
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Why Big Data is now such a big deal Computers are spewing forth data at astronomical rates about everything from astrophysics to internet shopping. And it could be hugely valuable John Naughton The Observer, 17 March 2012 One of the most famous quotes in the history of the computing industry is the assertion that “640KB …
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This and that. What’s Wrong With Washington How much are voters to blame? Polarization .. Permanent campaign .. Citizen shortcomings .. Dysfunction by design .. Special interests A bleak look at America’s future David Ignatius on Global Trends 2030 (to be released after November 2012) US military a prime ‘target’ for home-grown terrorists The US …
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‘Months of public sector strikes’ loom: Wednesday’s walkout is just the start, warn unions ‘No more money on the table’ to settle pension row Chief Secretary to Treasury says he may take his daughter to work when her school closes for the day Becky Barrow The Daily Mail, 25 November 2011 Union bosses have amassed …
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