The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Combines Holistic Thinking with Drill-Down Detail August 1, 2010 Heather Rogers This is a solid five in my view because the author goes beyond weaving a story about green gone wrong in three main areas (food, shelter, transportation), providing what almost all other books miss: the systems of systems “its all connected” and “what’s good …
Both a Tour of Substance, and an Eye Opener for Book People July 29, 2010 James McEnteer This is a 6 Star and Beyond book and is so categorized at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, where one can browse all 1600+ of my non-fiction reviews sorted into 98 categories and easily found with …
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Presented by Michael Ravnitzky & Phil Lapsley at The Next HOPE, July 2010 in NYC (page 18 of the presentation) The three exemptions most misused • Exemption b(1) – currently and properly classified national security information • Exemption b(2) – internal materials • Exemption b(5) – legally privileged material; usually the “deliberative process privilege” Be …
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Tim Geithner’s Ninth Political Life By Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario, 16 July 2010 In modern American life, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner stands out as amazingly resilient and remarkably lucky – despite presiding over or being deeply involved in a series of political debacles, he has gone from strength to strength. After at least eight improbably …
CounterPunch Diary The Fall of Obama By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Counterpunch The man who seized the White House by fomenting a mood of irrational expectation is now facing the bitter price exacted by reality. The reality is that there can be no “good” American president. It’s an impossible hand to play. Obama is close to being …
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Mr. Obama’s presidency is now being defined by four intractable problems: (1) Persistent High Unemployment due to the intractable Great Recession; (2) a Financial Giveaway that protected rich Wall Street bankers at the expense of the masses who are suffering economically from the Great Recession the bankers triggered; (2) A BP Environmental Disaster that reveals …
Can Kevin Costner’s Machines Really Help the Gulf Cleanup? The oil-separating centrifuges will work, but they would have worked better months ago By Dave Levitan / July 2010 14 July 2010—After 85 days, the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is now partially contained, and relief wells to stem the flow are inching closer to completion. …
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