The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Robert Gates: Pitchman for a Declining Empire By Werther* Robert M. Gates is one of those people the Beltway Consensus refers to as a “serious adult”: not overtly partisan, measured in his pronouncements, possessed of actual knowledge about the job he has been charged to do. The adulation he has received is certainly understandable if …
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Ideological Underpinnings of the “Great Society” By Robert Higgs Campaign for Liberty, 05/10/11 [The Freeman (March 2011). An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Steven Ng, is available for download.] The surge of federal economic interventions that occurred during Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency — the much-ballyhooed Great Society, whose centerpiece was the War …
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Phi Beta Iota: 10 more years of pain. – – – – – – – While the political elite obsesses over the rise in public debt, the US is on the cusp of an era of deleveraging — or more bluntly, a massive liquidation of private debt — the ramifications of which, in the best …
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Illustration by Victor Juhasz In another era, we would see Congressional hearings on this matter within days. Darrell Issa and Spencer Bachus are now on the clock. We have but one comment – Audit the Fed – Sign the Petition Immediately! By Matt Taibbi For Rolling Stone Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 …
THE DEBT LIMIT: HISTORY AND RECENT INCREASES A statutory limit on total federal debt has been in place since 1917. In the past decade, Congress has voted to raise the debt limit ten times and it will now have to do so once again. The history of the debt limit and its current implications were …
Patrick McConnell: Government of Deceit–A sobering analysis… • The “entitlement programs” have an unfunded liability of greater than $104 trillion. Your share is $367,000. (Every man, woman and child owes the same.) • At the end of 2009, $3.2 trillion of the $12.9 trillion National Debt was spent, but never on the government’s general budget. …
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To the Editor: The Intelligence Community Group at LinkedIn is full of smart folks whose thinking either supports or complements the long-standing views of the Phi Beta Iota collective. Specifically, there is a general feeling that the U.S. Intelligence System is really morally and systematically broken. RW The U.S. Intelligence Community as the Land of …
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