The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The 15th biennial African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda ended on July 27 with mixed results regarding support for U.S. and Western European plans to escalate foreign military intervention in nearby Somalia. The 35 heads of state present at the three-day meeting were reported to have authorized the deployment of 2,000 more African troops to …
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By Dave Levinthal on July 29, 2010 Charles Wyly Jr. and Samuel Wyly, Texas businessmen and brothers who are among the nation’s most generous campaign donors to Republican political candidates and causes, were today hit with a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing them of fraud worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The SEC accuses the Wylys of …
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Gandhi’s movement for non-violent social change challenged America. Can Martin Luther King, Jr. do the same for China? Bringing King to China is a documentary film about culture, race and human rights. The film takes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of equality and peace to China—and then brings it back to the U.S. It’s …
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We love it when searches lead us to good stuff not on our site that we can embrace. Below is the top hit on the search question, followed by a link to our own four quadrants of knowledge that enriches. The site actually looks like a come-hither magnet for the Later Day Saints (Mormons). In …
Phenomenal “Primary” Source Relevant Today July 26, 2010 Nick Cullather This is the original, Stanford has also just produced a new version, Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala 1952-1954. I bought this used and not only loved the speed of delivery, but the notes from the previous owner. My next …
Tour of the Horizon, the Smartest of Skeptics July 25, 2010 Eli Kintisch I bristled when I saw the title, but bought the book in association with my own talk to Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) on “Hacking Humanity.” I’ve put the book down glad I did not give up in the early pages, and …
5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the most important — certainly the most thought-provoking — book in years October 22, 2009 Review by Jesse Kornbluth Book by Stewart Brand I was interviewing George Soros as the Dow rapidly shed 300 points and crashed through the 10,000 level. “Is this it?” I asked. Soros shrugged — …
