The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Given the out of control slander and vicious opposition of the Zionists and the neo-cons to Chuck Hagel’s leaked nomination prospects, this comes as a pleasant surprise. Give Chuck a Chance By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN New York Times December 25, 2012 In case you haven’t heard, President Obama is considering appointing Chuck Hagel, a former …
THE U.S. NAVY: TROUBLED WATERS By Winslow Wheeler Time, Dec. 3-5, 2012 Part 1: If more money buys a smaller fleet, what does less money buy? Part 2: More than the Navy’s numbers could be shrinking Part 3: Is the fleet steaming forward or backward? All three articles below the line.
There is a lot of waste in the defense budget, much of it inserted by Congress for pork reasons, but DoD is also used to mask many other non-Defense programs, not just intelligence but in energy, health, foreign aid, etcetera. Breaking the bargain with military retirees on health care is both a major betrayal, and …
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The use of private contractors is not just for the Pentagon or the State Department. It is also for that frequently crashing collection of agencies euphemistically known as the intelligence community (IC). I have written previously on this but let’s consider some of the costs of using contractors in the IC. The following is taken …
National Insecurity Questions That Won’t Be Asked in the Presidential Debates How Bad Will Things Get in Afghanistan? by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY. Counterpunch, October 08, 2012 For reasons that were quite clear well before the Afghan “surge” began (see here and here), America’s Afghan adventure is now ending without achieving its goals. The prospects for a civil life in Afghanistan are likely …
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Sorry for the failure to get to the core pieces. Part of the challenge is that “integrity” is a recurring theme — this web site, by definition, is replete with integrity in every posting, every link, every intent. This search overview does not include ethics, legitimacy, or truth, three other core terms and concepts that …
Theory-based impact evaluation: principles and practice June 2009 Calls for rigorous impact evaluation has been accompanied by the quest for what works and why. Howard White identifies six principles for the successful application of the approach — mapping out the causal chain (programme theory), understanding the context, anticipating heterogeneity, rigorous evaluation of impact using a …
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