The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How media changes politics If you want to get elected in the US, you need media. When TV was king, the secret to media was money. If you have money, you can reach the masses. The best way to get money is to make powerful interests happy, so they’ll give you money you can use …
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October 23, 2010 What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? By FRANK RICH Phi Beta Iota: Extracts are provided. This is an important document that confirms the total abdication by Congress and the Executive of their Constitutional duties with respect to the public interest. The USA is owned and operated by Wall Street for its …
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Efficiency is free Philip Crosby wrote a seminal book (Quality is Free) in which he argued that it’s cheaper to build things right the first time than it is to fix them later. Obvious now, but heresy in Detroit 1980. Quality quickly became not just a better way to manufacture, it became a marketing benefit …
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Science, lies, evidence, knowledge In so many fields, owing to the Internet-driven democratization of knowledge, we learn that that the power associated with hoarded knowledge has been abused, and the position of leadership – the priesthood – associated with the acquisition of knowledge has been leveraged to manipulate and deceive. “Everything you know is wrong!” …
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Central Texas World Future Society: Future of the Internet Here’s a presentation I delivered to the Central Texas World Future Society, used as a framework for a discussion of scenarios for the network and for the application layer. The future of the internet
Deliberately uninformed, relentlessly so [a rant] Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year. Many of those people have seen every single episode of American Idol. There is clearly a correlation here. Access to knowledge, for the first time in history, is largely unimpeded for the middle class. Without effort …
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C.I.A. Was Told About Bomber of Afghan Base, Inquiry Finds By MARK MAZZETTI The New York Times Published: October 19, 2010 WASHINGTON — Three weeks before a Jordanian double agent set off a bomb at a remote Central Intelligence Agency base in eastern Afghanistan last December, a C.I.A. officer in Jordan received warnings that the …
