The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations House Committee on Foreign Affairs Baluchistan Hearing, February 8, 2012 Testimony of Ralph Peters, military analyst and author “PAKISTAN AS A FAILING EMPIRE” 2012-02-09 Ralph Peters House Testimony, Baluchistan and Pakistan (8 pages, doc) Introductory remarks: This testimony arises from three premises. First, we cannot analyze global events through reassuring …
Phi Beta Iota: The meat is below the line, itemizing corporate misbehavior and political bribes in relation to awarded contracts, most of which do not produce needed capabilities that live up to their Powerpoint engineering. The Election We Should Be Following For progressives and populists around the country who take an interest in Congressional races …
Integrity? We don’t need no stinkin’integrity! Precision Munitions Lessen Need for Close Air Support Plane: Schwartz Answers the A-10 Question PENTAGON: One of the longest-running debates between the Air Force and the Army centers on close air support. Historically, the Air Force hates supplying CAS and doesn’t like buying or maintaining the planes that do …
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Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room David Weinberger Released 3 January 2012 Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus “Too Big To Know is Weinberger’s brilliant synthesis of myriad little debates—information overload, …
The system is “out of control” because corruption has put so much sand in the gears as to make nature grind to a halt in pain. Seeds that commit suicide is a man-made threat to humanity. The non-violent antidote to this tsunami of corruption across all forms of organization (including “think tanks” that are nothing …
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Clyde Coughenour 5.0 out of 5 stars Alternative Perspective, Very Naive on US Reality, January 30, 2012 I *like* this book. I’ve been running for the Reform Party nomination for President (there were three of us, now there are two, and I might drop out soon if I get a federal job and the Hatch …
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Panetta: Military Spending Is Going Up By David Swanson On Thursday, Leon Panetta held a press conference announcing what he called “cuts” to military spending. The first question following his remarks pointed out that the “cuts” are to dream budgets, while the actual spending will be increased over Panetta’s 10-year plan. Is there any year, …
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