The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ANNUAL SECRECY COSTS NOW EXCEED $10 BILLION The rise in national security secrecy in the first full year of the Obama Administration was matched by a sharp increase in the financial costs of the classification system, according to a new report to the President (pdf). The estimated costs of the national security classification system grew …
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Open Source Politics and Religion I just sent the following to an email list I’m on (Google Group Next Net), and thought it would be worth sharing here: I’ve been involved with R.U. Sirius in instigating an International Open Source Party (version 2.0 – we tried it before but it didn’t quite launch). He wrote …
This is a vital search, exactly on point. 21st Century public administration must be about design. The machine search results are disappointing. Here are a few thoughts and some links from the human in the loop. 1. Public Administration is not Public Management. The administrator should be a civil servant in the fullest sense of …
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Osama bin Laden: Why He Won by E.J. Graff The Daily Beast, 15 May 2011 As celebrations over Osama bin Laden’s death wind down, a starker reality is emerging: the terrorist bogeyman succeeded in destroying key American values, not to mention our economy and global influence. At long last, Osama is dead. The U.S. has …
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Towards a New Paradigm Shift: Bin Laden and the Spring of Arab Revolutions By ESAM AL-AMIN 13-15 May 2011 EXTRACT: Despite the dozens of meetings in the review process, it’s remarkable that the whole premise of the U.S. escalation in Afghanistan and Pakistan was not challenged or probed. The U.S. has committed tens of thousands …
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Extensive Porn Stash Reportedly Found in Bin Laden Compound Fox News, 13 May 2011 A stash of pornography was found in the Pakistani compound of Usama bin Laden raided last week by Navy SEALs, U.S. officials tell Reuters. The pornography taken from the compound consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, officials …
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