The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Article below, based on views of three or so retired senior military officers, two of them former Service TJAGs, takes an unfortunate tack on Manning’s treachery. Their contention is that command and systemic failures set conditions for Manning to compromise documents. They assert that since he was “juniorest guy in the office,” everybody but him …
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Americans Elect Candidate Ejection Committee Chaired by FBI, CIA, Military Research Chiefs Americans Elect Mischaracterizes Bernie Sanders on Priorities and on Same-Sex Marriage Christine Todd Whitman Goes to Press a 7th Time to Promote Jon Huntsman, Violating Americans Elect Policy All Prior Headlines with Links Below the Line
Russell Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 for Democracy as Design, 4 for Fragmentation, 5 on Balance,December 15, 2011 I bought this book after being turned to Reflexivity by Dr. Kent Myers, principal author of Reflexive Practice: Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World–disclosure, he profiled me in that book, to my …
Charter of Open Source Org is Classified, CIA Says Open Source Works, which is the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information. Oddly, however, the directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization. In fact, CIA says the very …
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The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have …
Lest We Forget: Why We Had A Financial Crisis Steve Denning Forbes, 22 November 2011 When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift It is clear to anyone who has studied the financial crisis of 2008 …
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Potentially Earth-Like Planet Has Right Temperature for Life Govert Schilling, ScienceNow WIRED, 5 december 2011 For the first time, astronomers have found a planet smack in the middle of the habitable zone of its sunlike star, where temperatures are good for life. “If this planet has a surface, it would have a very nice temperature …
