The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri The head of the UN’s climate change panel – Dr Rajendra Pachauri – is accused of making a fortune from his links with ‘carbon trading’ companies Christopher Booker and Richard North Telegraph 20 December 2009 Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a …
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Brilliant but Narrow, Simplifies A Bridge Too Far December 19, 2009 Mark Moyar EDIT of 21 Feb 2010: A colleague in COINSOC has pointed out that I missed one key aspect of this book and I hasten to add it: “Moyar’s point that we are applying peacetime personnel policies by putting people in place based …
Strengthening Our Nation’s Front Line Of Defense By Dennis C. Blair Friday, December 18, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: This is a seriously misleading article, our comments are provided after each paragraph. The legislation authorizing post-Sept. 11 intelligence reform — the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 — was signed into law five years …
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Ahmadinejad makes more sense on climate change than US leaders Ahmadinejad: All countries should be able to use nuclear power Iran’s President Says Materialism, Capitalism Cause of Climate Change Islamic Republic of Iran News Network Television (IRINN) as translated by Open Source Center (OSC) Friday, December 18, 2009 (Ahmadinezhad in progress) … … Every year …
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Utterly Brilliant Synthesis, Vital First Step–US Violates Every Single Principle December 18, 2009 United States Institute of Peace This book is a six-star special and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, where I cluster like non-fictions books in 98 categories, one of which is Stabilization & Reconstruction. At its …
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Extraordinary Collection, Unique, Timely, No Notes December 16, 2009 Dacher Keltner, Jason March, Jeremy Adam Smith This is a truly extraordinary collection of essays from the magazine Greater Good, a magazine I had no idea existed. The editors have done a tremendous job in selecting 35 essays (click on the cover above to see the …
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Dean says kill the Senate health bill: report Dean tells Good Morning America that he thinks health bill should be scrapped: Video at bottom WASHINGTON — Following the jettisoning of both the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision, one of the nation’s leading progressive voices on health care reportedly said Tuesday that the Senate …
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