Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies

Franz-Stefan Gady Foreign policy analyst, EastWest Institute Huffington Post, Posted: December 21, 2010 02:20 PM In December 2008 within milliseconds, Egypt lost 70 percent of its connection to the outside Internet. In far away India, 50 to 60 percent of online connectivity similarly was lost. In Pakistan, 12 million people were knocked offline suddenly, and …

Journal: Ron Paul C-SPAN’s Newsmakers + Ron Paul RECAP

Focus on tax package, Republican future, focus on Federal Reserve and oversight if not termination of the Federal Reserve.  Focus on danger of central economic planning.  Do not attack individuals, but rather the “system.”  It’s going to get a lot worse.  Need more transparency.  Everything Fed does is secret and they have a budget bigger …

Reference: On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy + RECAP on Secrecy as Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

People are more likely to lie, exaggerate and distort when they know they won’t be held accountable for what they said, and people like to say what their interlocutors want to hear, says Jordan Stancil. Jordan Stancil Jordan Stancil is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of …

Journal: Death by a Thousand Cuts? Or Deliberate Elite Murder of the USA?

Death by a Thousand Cuts See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda’s recent attacks haven’t succeeded doesn’t mean the terrorist group’s overall strategy is failing. Foreign Policy BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | NOVEMBER 23, 2010 “Two Nokia phones, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses add up …