The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
From Geostrategy Direct A recent study by the Pew Research Center indicates that 10 years after the September 11 attacks, support for Islamic fundamentalism is growing within the Muslim world and that U.S. efforts to produce an ideological counterproposal to Islamic terrorism have fallen short. Statistics released May 17 reveal, for example, that 47 percent …
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All personality….no substance? Personalities over structure in the intelligence community? Walter Pincus, 23 May 2011 Washington Post Read full article…. Phi Beta Iota: There is a contest of personalities going on, in which Army officers and camp followers without integrity (Alexander, Burgess, Long) are winning out over Navy officers with integrity (McConnell, Blair, Mullen). The …
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There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says By Spencer Ackerman WIRED, May 25, 2011 You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard. Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early …
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U.S. official cites misconduct in Japanese American internment cases By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2011 Acting Solicitor Gen. Neal Katyal says one of his predecessors, Charles Fahy, deliberately hid from the Supreme Court a military report that Japanese Americans were not a threat in World War II. Read rest …
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Note buried within the report about classification of documents…….. $1bn fraud at Kabul Bank puts UK’s Afghan pull-out in peril IMF and Britain’s foreign aid department both withhold money for reconstruction By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady Sunday, 22 May 2011 EXTRACT: The Department for International Development (DfID) confirmed last night that it had followed …
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I would suspect that a number of countries hung up on this call……. U.S. Calls for Global Cybersecurity Strategy By HELENE COOPER, May 16, 2011 New York Times EXTRACT: The strategy calls for officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Commerce Department and the Department of Homeland Security to work with …
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Missing is the lack of integrity of the US Government….. Niall Ferguson’s 4 Reasons Why US Dominance Is Over Jeff Cox, 12 May 2011, CNBC LAS VEGAS—The era of US economic dominance is rapidly coming to an end as an “American Gothic” age sets in and China becomes the new global leader, economic historian Niall …
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