The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh? Half of American Combat Soldiers in Chronic Pain Use Opioids About half of the American soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan return home to the U.S. in chronic pain, according to a new study that also found about one in seven soldiers were using opioid pain relievers. The study, the first to assess the …
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Huh? Poll: Confidence in government plummets Kendall Breitman Politico.com, 30 June 2014 Americans are losing confidence in all three branches of government, as confidence in the Supreme Court and Congress has dropped to record lows and the White House has hit a six-year dip, according to a new poll. In a Gallup poll released Monday, …
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Huh? The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats By NICK HANAUER Politico.com, July/August 2014 The model for us rich guys here should be Henry Ford, who realized that all his autoworkers in Michigan weren’t only cheap labor to be exploited; they were consumers, too. Ford figured that if he raised their wages, to a then-exorbitant …
Huh? Google Maps Now Show Elevation Statistics For Bikers Google, the world’s largest internet search operator, is bringing one of the most useful features to bikers using its Google Maps service. While cycling can be fun, sometimes an arbitrary hill climb can be a challenging task. But it appears that Google has finally come up …
Huh? The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment The game is changing rapidly. Can Washington’s intelligence community keep up? Josh Kerbel National Interest, 15 May 2014 Josh Kerbel is the Chief Analytic Methodologist at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He writes often and openly on the intersection of government (especially intelligence) and globalization. The views expressed in …
Huh? Internal Army Report’s Damning Conclusion on a System Meant to Protect Our Troops Editor’s Note: This is the third part in an investigative series by TheBlaze into how top Army officials failed to provide necessary technology to troops on the battlefield, choosing to promote their own flawed software instead. Read part one and part …
Huh? A Personal Reflection On Google+ EXTRACT The product that became Google+ developed over a lengthy gestation period. Key to its evolution was a model known as circles, which was popularized internally by Paul Adams and in a never published book called Social Circles. The idea as eventually implemented was simple: allow users to define …
