The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Essay of the Day: From Open Source to Open Sourcing Digital Medical Devices Excerpted from Glyn Moody: “It is not just an issue for life-saving medical devices that can kill as well as save: it is about our increasing reliance on embedded software in everyday life, in developed countries at least. Clearly, we can’t. If …
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One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists. For example, today (March 14) Bank of America/Merrill Lynch reported that “yesterday US markets started the day off with a strong rally after the solid retail sales report. …
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No Jobs For Americans Today (March 9, 2012) the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s claim true? No. Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that 44,000 of these jobs or 19% consist of an add-on factor derived from the BLS’s …
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Democracy and Citizenship March 9th, 2012 Head’s Weekly Letter – March 8, 2012 Dear Academy Families, While I normally don’t discuss two speakers at All School Meeting (ASM) within one month, the reality is that last week’s speaker was equally as provocative and exciting as the one two weeks before, so I will make this …
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NSA whistle-blower: Obama “worse than Bush” Thomas Drake on life inside the National Security Agency and the price of truth telling Matthew Harwood Salon, 7 March 2012 Thomas Drake, the whistle-blower whom the Obama administration tried and failed to prosecute for leaking information about waste, fraud and abuse at the National Security Agency, now works …
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What Would a “Good” Banking System Look Like? Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This MICHAEL HUDSON CounterPunch, Weekend Edition January 27-29, 2012 In medieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and princes as their major customers. But now it is the banks that are needy, relying on governments for funding – capped by the …
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When is an ‘NGO’ not an NGO? Twists and Turns Beneath the Cairo Skies Richard Falk, 14 February 2012 A confusing controversy between the United States and Egypt is unfolding. It has already raised tensions in the relationship between the two countries to a level that has not existed for decades. It results from moves by …
