The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: Pentagon Manhunters: America’s New Murder, Inc.? 11/23/09 AA: Iran’s military forces stage war games 11/22/09 AR: Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA 11/20/09 AR: In Argentina, One Person Dies Every 28 Hours from Police Repression 11/21/09 BR: Brazil should use caution 11/25/09 BR: Italian ex-militant ends hunger strike in Brazil …
Obama as LBJ: Domestic Politics, Escalation and the Descent Into Chaos There have been many comparisons of the Afghan escalation question to its equivalent question in Vietnam 45 years ago, but I think the most ominous similarity lies in the way each escalation debate devolved into intellectual incoherence and confusion, mutating into an exhausted disorder, …
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The Madagascar model Nov 13th 2009 From The World in 2010 print edition By John Parker Conflicts over natural resources will grow In the world’s earliest written legal code, dating from 1790BC, Hammurabi, the king of Babylon, laid down rules governing the maintenance of irrigation systems and the amount of water people could take from …
General comment: CIA leared how to run drugs and launder money in Viet-Nam at the same time that the Pentagon discovered the joys of a blank check. We have never recovered from that. When combined with the secret slush fund managed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the bottom line is that many things have …
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Climate Emails Stoke Debate Scientists’ Leaked Correspondence Illustrates Bitter Feud over Global Warming KEITH JOHNSON, 23 November 2009 In the emails, which date to 1996, researchers in the U.S. and the U.K. repeatedly take issue with climate research at odds with their own findings. In some cases, they discuss ways to rebut what they call …
EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling Junk science exposed among climate-change believers Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change. It was announced Thursday …
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David Rogers – Mon Nov 23, 2009 Call it “pay as you fight.” After months of listening to conservatives caterwaul over deficits and health care, senior House Democrats want a graduated surtax on individuals and corporations to pay for another big drain on the treasury: the Afghanistan war. Three full committee chairmen — including the House’s top …
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