The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Annoying September 4, 2009 John L. Petersen John Petersen’s earlier work was vastly more interesting and more structured than this little 4.5 inch by 7 inch 100 page double-spaced blowing in the ears of Gary Hart and Leon Fuerth, among others. See my reviews of his earlier work: Out of the blue: Wild cards and …
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As we contemplated the reality that the U.S. Government does not have an information strategy, we realized it may not even know what one is. Below is a snippet from an EZine article that captures the broad picture. Design an Information Strategy By Robert G. Ogilvie Despite investments of millions of dollars in Information Technology, …
Rowan Scarborough (Contact) Originally published 04:45 a.m., August 31, 2009, EXCLUSIVE: Lack of translators hurts U.S. war on terror The necessary cadre of U.S. intelligence personnel capable of reading and speaking targeted regional languages such as Pashto, Dari and Urdu “remains essentially nonexistent,” the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence wrote in a rare but stark …
The Numbers A Run at the Latest Data from ABC’s Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer . . . . . . . One of these polls was released Aug. 9 by an outfit called Glevum Associates, which appears from its website to be a military contractor engaged in producing psychological operations data as part of …
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Professor Loch Johnson is one of two people who have served on both the Church Committee and the Aspin-Brown Commission. The other is Britt Snider, Esquire. Today he examines the lack of integrity on the Hill, or totthless, inattentive oversight. He does not address two factors that we comment on below the fold: 1. There …
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Six senators representing 3 percent of the population are running things because the White House wants it that way By Robert Reich Aug. 23, 2009 | On Thursday, the so-called Gang of Six – three Republicans and three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee – met by conference call and, according to Max Baucus, D-Mont., …
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The Foreclosure Wave” — Now a Tsunami of Sorts Over the past two days, the popular foreclosure reporting firms released their monthly numbers and the takeaway was that the foreclosure crisis is getting worse. Indeed, the foreclosure crisis is worsening, but July’s actual foreclosure numbers do not pose much additional risk to the housing market …
