WASHINGTON RULES: US-Korea-China-NK NAFTA

A project of Americans for Free and Fair Trade Dear Citizen: Barack Obama is pushing a NAFTA-Style Korea Free Trade agreement that would undermine America’s sovereignty, laws and economy. This deal would: Allow foreign corporations to drag the U.S. before U.N. and World Bank tribunals to enforce special trade privileges and to demand compensations from the …

Philosophy: Eye of the Needle, the Rich, & Community

Dear friends, Below are the final three relatively short articles I mentioned earlier this week in my “Rise and Role of Concentrated Wealth” post. 1.  Twenty-two Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America – http://t.co/lNFYiK6 2.  A Modest Proposal to Transition to a “Cater to the Rich” …

Journal: What’s Wrong with American defense….

Phi Beta Iota: Notes summarizing the 59 minute video are below the line. ….Watch this!!!!!  My good friend Pierre Sprey interviews Bill Hartung on Book TV about Hartung’s new book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The book is a history of the largest military contractor in U.S. history, …

Journal: Get America Working–A Conversation Part II

Original Post with William Drayton, Alexandere Carpenter, and Robert Steele:  Journal: Get America Working–A Conversation Part II–Alexander Carpenter (AC), the Founding Fathers, and Modern Seers Journal: Get America Working-A Conversation If you do nothing else, please consider reviewing the many contributions by Tom Atlee via the first line in Part IV: Related Recommended Reading, Atlee …

Building a Constituency for the Director of National Intelligence

Decision-support (intelligence) is the ultimate objective of information processes. One must carefully distinguish between data which is raw text, signal, or image; information which is collated data of generic interest; and intelligence which is information tailored to support a specific decision… Robert David Steele Vivas  On Intelligence (AFCEA, 2000) As noted in an earlier Journal …