The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Smart Pig: BP’s OTHER Spill this Week by Greg Palast for Buzzflash.com Friday, May 28 2010 With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill, just this week: over 100,000 gallons, at its Alaska pipeline operation. A hundred thousand used to be a lot. Still …
Short Article from the Author, April 28, 2010 Linda Polman It’s a real shame this book is not being represented properly on Amazon, in part because the UK publisher is just not geared up for the US audience. This is an important book. Below is the author’s summary as appeared in TimesOnline 25 April 2010. …
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A Dagger to the CIA On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life, taking seven Americans with him. How could this have happened? Agency veteran Robert Baer explains, offering chilling …
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How Should We Measure Intelligence Community Performance?, by Joseph Mazzafro. As the Congress and the DC dignitary debate if health care is affordable given the nation’s first trillion dollar annual debit incursion, I am wondering where the money would come from should the United States need to defend its national interests against another Al Qaeda …
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UPDATED 2014-01-29 to add the following new links: 2012 Robert Steele: Practical Reflections on UN Intelligence + UN RECAP References: NATO Transformation Process Documents — and Gaps + Peace from Above RECAP Search: phd topics on the role of intelligence in peace support operation + Peacekeeping RECAP United Nations @ Phi Beta Iota Phi Beta …
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“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …
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The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …
