The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The State of Obama’s 2008 Promises Presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Democratic primary last time around largely on the strength of his extremely limited and inconsistent opposition to the war on Iraq. Then he chose as his running mate Senator Joe Biden, a man who had led efforts in the U.S. Senate to support …
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Koko Sign: Transparency good. Scary science, national security, and open-source research Maggie Koerth-Baker BoingBoing, 13 January 2012 I’ve been following the story about the scientists who have been working to figure out how H5N1 bird flu might become transmissible from human to human, the controversial research they used to study that question, and the federal …
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The Federal Election Commission recognizes 8 parties as national committees. They are: Democratic Republican Libertarian Constitution Reform Green Natural Law Socialist The FEC has no mechanism to de-list a party that has gone defunct. The Natural Law Party is defunct, except it is still on the ballot and active in Michigan. Previous Post from Richard …
War as a Lifestyle Butler Shaffer Lou Rockwell.com, 28 December 2011 Whenever I watch the Republican presidential debates, my mind is drawn to that important children’s book, The Emperor’s New Clothes. The six sock-puppets who have thus far managed to survive the musical-chairs comedy ballet wow Mr. and Mrs. Boobus with their visions of a …
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On 12 December, I described a concatenation of warmongering pressures that were shaping the popular psyche in favor of bombing Iran. Now, in a 21 December essay [also attached below], Steven Walt describes a further escalation of these pressures — in this case, via the profoundly flawed pro-bombing analysis, Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike is the Least …
The Corruption of America Porter Stansberry, December 21st, 2011 Stansberry Research The numbers tell us America is in decline… if not outright collapse. . . . . . . . I know this is a politically charged and emotional issue. My conclusions will not be easy for most readers to accept. Likewise, many of the …
A nation of populists and class warriors By Greg Sargent Pew Research has just released the most detailed polling I’ve seen yet on Occupy Wall Street, economic fairness, rising inequality, and the lack of Wall Street accountability. If these numbers don’t put an end to the nonsense about how Dems risk alienating the “middle of …
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