The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Are US armed forces “the best in the world”? What makes you think so? Not All That It Can Be The myth of American military superiority. WINSLOW WHEELER Foreign Policy | OCTOBER 11, 2012 EXTRACT: We also heard a lot of bombast after the first war with Iraq, Operation Desert Storm in 1991; then, the …
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VIOLENT BEHAVIOR CANNOT BE RELIABLY PREDICTED, PANEL SAYS The outbreak of violence by individuals who seek to harm other persons or institutions cannot be reliably predicted today, the Defense Science Board said in a new report to the Secretary of Defense. Instead, efforts to counter violence should focus on prevention and mitigation of the threat. …
Good news this is. Philippines, Muslim rebels agree on peace pact EILEEN NG, Associated Press, JIM GOMEZ, Associated Press | Sunday, October 7, 2012 | Updated: Sunday, October 7, 2012 8:44pm MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government and the country’s largest Muslim rebel group have reached a preliminary peace deal that is a major …
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Julian ASSANGE probably is a bona fide “enemy of the State;” not sure that is actually an official US Government term. However, since the first hoopla about Bradley MANNING and Wiki-leaks came out a couple of years ago, I’m not sure the troops have been adequately warned that reading Wiki-leaks sites is proscribed. At that …
Repeat itself, foolishness does. Predicting the future through online data mining Recorded Future predicts when and where a demonstration will occur after mining from the web all the related activities. EXTRACT As it turns out, the software company Recorded Future (which has recently been praised by Wired, the MIT Technology Review and other media outlets, …
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Sorry for the failure to get to the core pieces. Part of the challenge is that “integrity” is a recurring theme — this web site, by definition, is replete with integrity in every posting, every link, every intent. This search overview does not include ethics, legitimacy, or truth, three other core terms and concepts that …
My friend Jeff Madrick lays out the outlines of the central economic crisis of our times: the hemorrhaging of high paying middle class jobs — a subject I addressed wrt to the loss of manufacturing jobs here. Chuck Spinney Our Crisis of Bad Jobs Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books, 2 Oct 12 With domestic …
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