The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Part I Internet prime mover Vint Cerf echoes what I’ve been hearing from other architects of the TCP/IP network: we should focus on building much fatter pipes, and get away from the enforced/legacy scarcity and build gigabit broadband networks. Nothing here about the cost of providing gigabit access, nothing here about the fact that much …
TSA diaper screening of 95-year-old draws angry reader reactions: ‘Home of the free?’ Texas lawmakers revive TSA anti-groping measure TSA’s Diaper Grope Sparks More Criticism of Feds A Florida group is calling on state lawmakers to enact a law “against state-sponsored perversion and oppression” in the wake of an aggressive TSA patdown of a diapered …
Death of the Duopoly Being binary is bad for business, so when will politics cure its bipolar disorder? Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on the lessons Washington should learn from the real world. By NICK GILLESPIE and MATT WELCH Wall Street Journal, Saturday, June 18, 2011 Nothing in American life today seems as archaic, ubiquitous …
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Might this come home to roost (and bite)? U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors Phi Beta Iota: This is, along with the Iranian nut-jobs trying to liberate Iran with CIA and JSOG money for outside-in propaganda (instead of enpowering the people with Autonomous Internet capabilities), is a classic exposure of how little the Department of …
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NIGHTMARE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE by Stephen Vincent Benet That was the second year of the Third World War, The one between Us and Them. Well, we’ve gotten used. We don’t talk much about it, queerly enough. There was all sorts of talk the first years after the Peace, A million theories, a million wild suppositions, …
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Terrorists To Protest Organizers: Lessons Learned From The Demise Of bin Laden and The Future Of U.S. National Security Phi Beta Iota: Below the line is a very ably crafted press release from the Project for National Security Reform (PNSR) led by Jim Locher and Dennis Blair, long-time champions of inter-agency reform or “Beyond Goldwater-Nicols.” This is a …
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16 May 2011 BAHRAIN: How radical are Bahrain’s Shia? EGYPT: Could Egypt’s revolution become mirage in the desert? IRAN-BAHRAIN: Iranian ships carrying aid to Bahrain turned back in Persian Gulf IRAN-SYRIA: ‘Nakba’ clashes: Iran, Syria trying to turn Arab Spring fury into attacks on Israel? ISRAEL: The Arab Revolution is knocking at Israel’s door LEBANON-SYRIA: …
