The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The attached blog, “Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems,” is a cut-and-paste accumulation of a variety of outlooks. Most are based on analyses or accumulated wisdom, but some appear based on hunches, ideologies, etc. Taken together, however, they paint a horrifying picture of the American political economy and our prospects for …
Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable. — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, January 21, 2010 So much for that…. Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks By Noah Shachtman, Wired, December 9, 2010 | 7:02 …
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Saturday, December 4, 2010 Can Cancún Can-Do? “Our governments are incompetent at best, corrupt and greedy at worst, and people now get that. What Karl Rove couldn’t accomplish, Hillary Clinton is driving home.” EXTRACT: Anholt, a Planetary Emergency Technician who parachutes in to hot spots to advocate rescue remedies where others have failed (his business …
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Venezuela-Iran: Die Welt is the original source for the following item, which is too important to overlook. “Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on unidentified western sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt, on 25 November. According to the article, an agreement between the two countries …
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People are more likely to lie, exaggerate and distort when they know they won’t be held accountable for what they said, and people like to say what their interlocutors want to hear, says Jordan Stancil. Jordan Stancil Jordan Stancil is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of …
White House: Obama Conducting Reign of Terror Posted on 06. Nov, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba in US Suspected White House leakers are on the run By Wayne Madsen President Obama was urged by the few White House insiders from whom he still takes advice to leave the country on his ten-day Asian trip, his longest trip …
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How Obama’s Initial Personnel Decisions Hardwired the Wipeout Democratic Debacle By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch November 3, 2010 In trying to understand why the Democrats just crashed and burned, I think the first layer in peeling the onion takes the form of an admission to two crucial mistakes made by Obama before he took office. …
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