The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
… which is to morally isolate itself by making enemies faster than it can kill them. If Israel’s behaviour continues unchecked, the pro-Israeli biases in and distortions of US policies will intensify our own isolation, until something snaps in our polity — and then, Israel will be all alone. Read rest of article…. IMO … …
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Raped and extorted by a prison gang, Scott Howard was called a “drama queen” by corrections officials By Alan Prendergast Wednesday, Feb 2 2011 Denver Westward News Phi Beta Iota: A very long article (8 sections), this is worth a full reading because it documents both the atrocities that occur in prisons to people who …
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We Could Have Stopped The Terror At Fort Hood Washington Post February 6, 2011 Pg. B1 By Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman and Susan M. Collins Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused in the murders of 13 people and the attempted murders of 32 others in the shooting spree at Fort Hood, Tex., in November 2009, appears to …
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Phi Beta Iota: Below the line is a most intriguing speculative analytic comment on what role Saudi Arabia may have played, and the intersection between religion, despots, military, and the public.
Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA. Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman …
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Although snuffing out dissent and cutting citizens off from the world aren’t actions generally associated with the American ideal, two U.S. companies are helping the Egyptian government do just that as populist protests continue shaking the African nation. The tear gas and smoke grenade manufacturer Combined Systems, Inc. is based out of Jamestown, Pennsylvania. But …
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(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …
