Eagle: 300 Million Citizens – 100 Million Qualify for Poverty Phone?

Mixed feelings. Great idea — one that has been recommended for the five billion poor everywhere else in the world. Troubling:  out of 300 million citizens, 100 million qualify for this specific form of poverty assistance? Obama Phone: Gov to Spend $2.4 Billion On Millions of Free Phones In 2012 Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com, February 9th, …

Review: Leverage – How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World

Karl Denninger STRONG FIVE – Original, Award-Winning, Major Contribution, February 5, 2012 On the very last page of the book I learn that the author received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for Grassroots Journalism, for his coverage of the 2008 market meltdown. This confirms my own already formed very high estimation of the …

Gary North: Administrative Law (New World Order) versus Democracy (Live Free or Die)

The Crucial Pillar of the New World Order by Gary North LouRockwell.com, February 4, 2012 One of the most alluring temptations that face men is the desire to enter the inner ring. C. S. Lewis wrote a wonderful essay with this title. It should be part of every person’s rite of passage into adulthood. The desire to …

Review: Ecological Economics – Principles and Applications (Second Edition)

Herman Daly 5.0 out of 5 stars Nobel Level Foundation for Resilience & Sustainability, February 1, 2012 Dr. Herman E. Daly may well be a future Nobel Prize winner …he is especially well-regarded in Norway and Sweden, where he has received prizes one step short of the Nobel. He is the author, co-author, or primary …

David Isenberg: Steve Coll Reviews Three Books on Secret American Security State

Our Secret American Security State The New York Review of Books, February 9, 2012 Steve Coll Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin Little, Brown, 296 pp., $27.99 Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar Columbia University …