The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Worthy of Serious Viewers, May 4, 2010 Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster I take with great seriousness some of the critical reviews, but on balance have to come down in favor of five stars and an enthusiastic recommendation of this movie and its actors. While I know little of current military casualty notification procedures, over-all this …
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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Good intentions gone wrong Too many aid organizations and an inept government have created a chaotic relief effort in Haiti “The aid machinery currently at work in Haiti keeps too much for overhead for its operations, and still relies overmuch on NGOs or contractors who do not observe the ground rules we would need to …
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Aid organizations are announcing with great pride that they will feed two million over the new two weeks. What they don’t say is that is 143,000 a day–assuming best case circumstances, sucks for those they don’t reach in the last ten days of those fourteen days—the last day of which will be roughly thirty days …
Govt: Medicare paid $47 billion in suspect claims By HOPE YEN The Associated Press Sunday, November 15, 2009; 1:58 AM WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient’s condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. …
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For over many years now Phi Beta Iota has been emphasizing both the inappropriate secrecy and obscurity contrived for our dead and wounded, and the almost total black-out on both amputees (many of them multiple amputees) and suicides. We now know that Gulf I brought back over 250,000 disabled veterans, and that the toxic brew …
One of the great things about being the touchstone for public intelligence is the contacts that are made by students, officers and enlisted personnel serving in the field, and so many others. While we were in Denmark, an officer now serving in Iraq sent us some questions that we answered to the best of our …
