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2010/10/02

Journal: Universities Join Two-Party Tyranny

University and Media Hosted Debates Continue to Exclude Alternative Candidates Despite Responsibility to Maintain a Free Marketplace of Ideas. Southwestern Community College Goes One Step Further, Censors Student Journalists. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Universities and media outlets across California are excluding alternative candidates from participating in the debates they sponsor. The September 28 debate held at …

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2010/10/012011/01/14

Reference: 27 Sep MajGen Robert Scales, USA (Ret), PhD

The Next Generation of Small Unit Warfare [NOTES] A Lunch Discussion with Major General (ret.) Robert H. Scales, PhD Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm The Brookings Institution, Stein Room, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC The 21st Century American military it has found itself fighting two extended land wars, neither against …

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2010/09/302010/09/30

Review: The World in 2050–Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future

Limits to Growth in the 21st Century September 30, 2010 Laurence C. Smith This book was recommended to me and I recommend it to others, but with the following observations: 1) Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update was there in the 1970’s. It troubles me, as much as I read, how I seem to see …

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2010/09/30

Journal: Finally, A Break in Foreclosures

JPMorgan Suspends Certain Foreclosures As Doubts Grow Over Legality Even as August saw more Americans lose their homes to foreclosure than in any other month on record, there are growing concerns over the legality of many of those proceedings. JPMorgan Chase has suspended legal proceedings on 50,000 foreclosures, due to concerns about the validity of …

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2010/09/302010/09/30

Journal: Chuck Spinney on Deadly Games of Deceit

The linked article by William Pfaff illustrates how the Pentagon set up Mr. Obama to do its bidding. Are Obama’s Hands Tied? 28 September 2010 By William Pfaff A splendid and courageous new book, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, by Andrew J. Bacevich of Boston University (and for many years previously, the U.S. …

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2010/09/302010/09/30

Journal: The Domestic Politics of Afghanistan

Following editorial appeared in today’s Washington Post, commenting on a series of three excerpts of Bob Woodward’s new book, “Obama’s Wars.” Invite your attention to highlighted portions, particularly the final one, “,,, the president had treated the military as another political constituency that had to be accommodated …” Anybody wanna speculate how that’s making the …

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2010/09/29

Journal: Culture of Cheating at FBI and …

If true, what an exploitable propaganda opportunity –“Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity”?) 2 dozen FBI agents cheated on counterterrorism test, Justice Dept. finds By Jeff Stein Washington Post Monday, September 27, 2010 The Justice Department said Monday that it found almost two dozen FBI agents, including supervisors, had cheated on an exam to test their knowledge of …

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