The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Month-old Rowan Scarborough article at bottom and transmittal messages above it are worth reading. While I don’t have Army numbers, I’d bet we have or will soon have same kinds of retention problems as the Navy. What I am seeing are: * A stated policy of “precision retention” whereby, in getting to end strength it thinks …
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10 Global Values That Are Old and Stale, and How to Replace Them Scillia Elworthy Huffington Post, 23 April 2014 Two hundred and thirty remarkable people from North and South gathered in Reykjavik from April 9-12 to share actions for effective change on the issue of “the power of love and compassion in governance.” CONCLUSION: …
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37% of Voters Fear the Federal Government Rasmussen Reports Rasmussen is a right leaning survey operation. I mention this because context matters and a Right leaning poll with these results is worthy of close attention. I think this is telling us that the basis of trust upon which our democracy was based is eroding as …
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Three Images the World Needed Employees of the U.S. government refer to people they murder as “bugsplat.” They pretend that the men, women, and children they are killing with drones are just bugs, because they just look like little fuzzy creatures on a computer screen. Thank goodness for the artists who have put a giant …
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Star-Spangled Baggage By Ann Jones, TomDispatch This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Read Tom Engelhardt’s introduction here. After an argument about a leave denied, Specialist Ivan Lopez pulled out a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and began a shooting spree at Fort Hood, America’s biggest stateside base, that left three soldiers dead and 16 wounded. …
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Bunkerville, Nevada: the 21rst Century Lexington, MA? The Feds may have bit off more than they can chew if the number of militia members – 5,000, outnumbering by a wide margin the number of federal law enforcers – in article and video is correct. This might be the place where the Second American Revolution against …
7 armed conflicts the world failed to stop, proving we learned little from the Rwanda genocide For 20 years, the world has been promising “never again.” It’s been an empty promise. Timothy McGrath Global Post, 8 April 2014 For those who lived through the genocide in Rwanda, the mass killings were an indescribable horror. For …
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