Review: Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail

Six Star Special September 20, 2009 Paul Polack This book is a “beyond five stars” book and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog where I can do things Amazon does not provide for, including reader access to my 1400+ non-fiction reviews via any of 100 different categories. This single …

Journal: Chuck Spinney on Al Qaeda Message, Two Comments on CIA and Al Qaeda

First, a link to the translated Al Qaeda message. Then Chuck Spinney’s commentary on the rmessage (there is no assurance it is actually from Bin Laden, who may be long dead).   Finally, a Phi Beta Iota comment that will outrage the lame of mind and resonate with every average American. Bin Ladin Says US Should …

EUCOM Week in Review Ending 9 September 2009

Hot Topics AA: Central banks of Belarus and Lithuania sign cooperation agreement 09/07/09 AA: Ex-Siemens Manager’s Extradition to Greece Blocked 09/04/09 AA: France takes over Nato post 09/09/09 AA: Georgian journalist requests asylum in South Ossetia 09/04/09 GE: Georgia to free jailed Turkish sea captain: official 09/08/09 IL: Israel must live up to its commitment …

Journal: Chuck Spinney Highlights Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy posted by Juan Cole Sept 7, 2009 http.www.juancole.com/2009/09/where-have-all-broad-shoulders-gone-or.html The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job recently. A vast bank robbery by the corrupt on …

Journal: Chuck Spinney on Moral and Mental Collapse of the Federal Government

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 …