The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In the notional conversation below, Robert Steele first defends the Secretary of Defense in the context of a White House that is insanely criminal or criminally insane, and then outlines the other position, one rooted in the Constitution and the inviolate nature of Integrity as the foundation for a Republic Of, By, and For We …
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EMPHASIS: The larger result of this cynical behaviour is a widespread moral and mental collapse that is rapidly transforming our experiment in building a government of the people, by the people, and for the people into a sham that is more like a 21st Century corporatist mutation of 18th Century court of Louis XVI. Viewed …
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O’s Afghan woes White House stifles general September 3, 2009 The classified status report from Afghanistan by Gen. Stanley McChrystal was censored by the White House before its submission. As a result, it’s all bun and no burger. According to multiple (angry) sources, McChrystal — our top soldier on the ground — intended to ask …
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Integrity Takes This to a Full Five–Part of a Review Trilogy September 6, 2009 John Pilger John Pilger was brought to my attention recently. I have known a few really great investigative journalists such as Robert Young Pelton, David Kaplan, and John Fialka, but John Pilger was new to me, and I am *very* glad …
Integrity Demands a Five, One of Three in My Review Trilogy September 6, 2009 John Pilger This is the third of three books by John Pilger (he has written others, I had to be selective) that I ordered and have read this long-week-end. The others: 2002 The New Rulers of the World 2005 Tell Me …
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Beyond Six Stars–a Manifesto for Liberty September 5, 2009 John Taylor Gatto This book shocked me, and while I am not easily shocked, in shocking me made me realize how even my own radical outlook (as Howard Zinn notes, a radical is someone who no longer believes government is part of the solution) has come …
Some Warts But If You Buy Only One Book, Try This One…. September 3, 2009 Harrison Owen The author (developer of the modern Open Space Technology) that revives the Native American open circle) tells us the book will inevitably be a repetition of his past books in different form, but I do not deduct for …
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