The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
So much for our COIN strategy. I knew it wouldn’t work because it is a hollow approach. You cannot get to the population living in reinforced garrisons while the rank and file walk the streets. When you are all armored up and travel through a town in vehicles whose drivers pay no attention what is …
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Dear friends, Food is basic. Lester Brown — founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, author of over 50 books on environmental issues, recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, and (according to the Washington Post) “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” — has just published a cogent …
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It might be about the size of the screen and whether or not you’re standing up. Start at the bottom. For the first five years of the Internet, the most used function was email. Email remains a bedrock of every device and system that’s been built on top of the internet, though sometimes it looks …
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Phi Beta Iota: Notes summarizing the 59 minute video are below the line. ….Watch this!!!!! My good friend Pierre Sprey interviews Bill Hartung on Book TV about Hartung’s new book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The book is a history of the largest military contractor in U.S. history, …
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5 Overlooked Stories (CSM) 1. Stuxnet 2. TARP is Cheap 3. Common School Standards 4. Rise of Natural Gas 5. Twilight of the Desktop 20 Hopeful Stories (YES! Magazine) 1. Climate Crisis Response Takes a New Direction 2. Wikileaks Lifts the Veil 3. Momentum is Building for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons …
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REMINDER: Environmental Degradation, not Climate Change, is High-Level Threat #3. Climate Change is less than 10% of that, and within Climate Change, mercury and sulfer are more important than carbon. Furthermore, it is not possible to address any one threat without addressing the other nine (e.g. #1 Poverty) with harmonized policies from Agriculture to Water, …
For those of us who served at Quarry Heights…. ….and shared the one outdoors faucet to “bathe” after noon hour PT! Miami Herald December 18, 2010 Southern Command Opens New HQ Military brass and local dignitaries cut the ribbon on the Pentagon’s new campus-style Southern Command headquarters. By Carol Rosenberg The Air Force staged an …
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