The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Afghanistan-Denmark-NATO: Today the Danish Foreign Minister said Denmark has turned down a NATO request to send F-16 fighters to Afghanistan because it believes it has done enough for the international military mission there. “We are one of the countries that contributes the most to Afghanistan,” Foreign Minister Lene Espersen told the media after a meeting …
6 Star and Beyond–Deep Soul-Moving Raw Truths August 26, 2010 Joseph David Osman I had the privilege of reviewing this book before it was published. Below is what I provided for use in publicizing the book, followed by my more detailed summary review provided here for the first time. I have goose-bumps as I contemplate …
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Top of the Fives, A Bold Departure Elegantly Executed August 25, 2010 Erik Assadourian et al I’ve become someone jaundiced about the State of the World series, while always respecting the persistence of Lester Brown (Peter Drucker called people like us “mono-maniacs” essential as change agents), but this one knocked me off my seat just …
Defense News August 23, 2010 Experts: DoD Could Have Prevented WikiLeaks Leak By William Matthews While senior Pentagon officials resort to bluster in hopes of preventing the WikiLeaks website from posting any more secret Afghan war documents on the Internet, security experts say there is a lot the U.S. military could have done to prevent …
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6 STAR Wake Up Call for All Educators August 19, 2010 Curtis J. Bonk UPDATE 21 Aug 2010 to add two graphics. I’ve seen educators struggle to herd their faculty cats, hire staff under industrial-era rules, and strive to accommodate students that know more than their professors about anything outside the “teach to test” topic. …
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RISK AREAS Governance risks Regime stability Rule of law Democratic governance Political violence risk Conflict and political violence Terrorism risk Extrajudicial and unlawful killings Kidnappings Business and macroeconomic risk Regulatory Framework Business environment Macroeconomic environment Business integrity and corruption Phi Beta Iota: All well and good, but nothing here about whether the government has a …
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Although this search produces adequate results, because in the absence of comments that we had to turn off to close out Russian spammers, the Search tracker has turned out to be quite valuable as an interactive tool, and we respond to Searches daily. First, here are the results for this search on this blog: ecology …
