The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Social Media, Disaster Response and the Streetlight Effect Posted on November 7, 2013 | 2 Comments A police officer sees a man searching for his coin under a streetlight. After helping for several minutes, the exasperated officer asks if the man is sure that he lost his coin there. The man says “No, I lost them …
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What this message is about: A good description of “the public” as a collective entity potentially able to think and respond as a whole. “The Public” is way deeper than “public opinion” Dear friends, This remarkable description of systemic problems in the quasi-democracy of the US, and of the proper conception of “the public” and …
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Part I: Global Power Project: Exposing the Institute of International Finance This is the first of a series of exposés focusing on the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the very “visible hand” of financial markets. It is a continuation of the Global Power Project produced by Occupy.com. Part 1 examines the origins of the IIF. Founded …
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America’s Threat-Centric [Lie-Based] Education System: Out of Date and Out of Time “History is a story. That’s why we fight over history. We make sense of ourselves, the world and ourselves in the world through the struggle to tell the truth through stories. Facts have to be contextualised to become the truth. And that truth …
Search Wizards Speak: Oleg Rogynskyy, Semantria Semantria focuses on a class of problems that a few years ago would have been outside the reach of many firms. He said: We make it simple for our clients to solve the following problems: First, some organizations have too much text to read. For example, a Twitter stream …
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Professor Brenner gave me permission to distribute and post the attached essay. Without saying so, he describes a way that seems tailor-made to systematically violate just about all the criteria for a sensible grand strategy. Chuck Spinney The Blaster 27 OCTOBER 2013 NSA DOES THE GRAND TOUR by Michael Brenner, PhD Professor of International …
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1. Ricks fails to understand that military strategy and policy do not exist in a vacuum. The White House and Congress both have votes that can be decisive. Shinseki and Franks were closer to right w/r/t force requirements for Iraq than was Rumsfeld. Further, Jerry Bremer unbelievably complicated Iraq by de-Baathification and dissolutionn of the …
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