The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Obama Administration’s clear-hold-build-leave strategy in Afghanistan is crucially dependent on the Afghan’s central government’s ability to displace the Taliban with clean local governance throughout a rugged country larger than Texas, with a population of 28+ million, where the vast majority of people live in small hamlets and villages. To this end, the combined forces …
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Goldman Goes Rogue – Special European Audit To Follow Simon Johnson Baseline Scenario February 14, 2009 We now learn – from Der Spiegel last week and today’s NYT – that Goldman Sachs has not only helped or encouraged some European governments to hide a large part of their debts, but it also endeavored to do so …
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Real Life From Building the Boat to Being Captured by the Chinese February 16, 2010 David J. Steele I watched my father build the Piver Tri-Maran in his garage and front yard of our home in Saigon, South Viet-Nam (at the time). This book is a still exciting story of an oil engineer and manager …
The Making of a Euromess (New York Times) By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times, 15 Feb 2010 For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn’t the whole, or even the main, source of Europe’s troubles — not even in Greece, whose government was indeed irresponsible (and hid its irresponsibility with creative accounting). No, …
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Confused, Overly Complex, Badly Staged February 15, 2010 Julia Roberts, Clive Own As a former spy who has spent the last 21 years in commercial intelligence, i expected much more from this film with its great actors but I was very disappointed. Had it not been in front of me on background as I edit …
To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature (New York Times) On Jan. 1, 1804, when Dessalines created the Haitian flag by tearing the white middle from the French tricolor, he achieved what even Spartacus could not: he had led to triumph the only successful slave revolt in history. Haiti became the world’s first independent …
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TERRORIST DROP-OUTS Learning From Those Who Have Left (Washington Institute) The Saudi Re-Radicalization Experiment (Council on Foreign Relations) Syria’s Financial Support for Terrorism (Middle East Forum) Cracks in the Jihad (Wilson Quarterly)
