The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Flipping the corruption myth Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South John Hickel Al Jazeera, 1 February 2014 Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow …
Catalog of the Snowden Revelations About NSA This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States’ surveillance activities. Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA …
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Privacy Board Urges New Criteria for Secrecy The public controversy that erupted over NSA bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records was a clear sign, if one were needed, that the boundaries of government secrecy had been drawn incorrectly, and that the public had been wrongly denied an opportunity to grant or withhold its consent in …
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“Omnibus” Information and Commentary Paper: What Did the Appropriators Really Do to Defense Spending? Bottom line: At $600B plus, DoD is a pig — easily 40% waste. Summary of Findings:
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Intel-Reform Under Construction – Send Nominations to robert.david.steele.vivas@gmail.com Updated 23 Jan 2014 14:58 E Phi Beta Iota: The current literature on intelligence reform is underdeveloped and under-specified. An example of this under- or mis-specification can be seen in the treatment of 9/11. The dominant position that 9/11 was an intelligence failure is correct …
This is a perceptive essay that challenges orthodoxy, redefining who are the real villians. Another example of the point the essay makes is the comparison between Edward Snowden and the Bush Cheney necons. The one, who has killed no one, nor caused any deaths is considered a traitor, and the others whose actions led to …
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The creative center of the world “After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.” Wallace Stevens What would happen if the world were enveloped by art? And if we were the artists? And if we owed nothing to any hierarchy or external authority? Is it …
