The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Occupy Wall Street [OWS], Decision Time: Movement or Mob? For several weeks now I and others have been trying to identify electoral reform points of contact across all occupy groups, and in passing, finance points of contact. This has proven to be next to impossible, and revealed the dirty little secret of Occupy: outside of …
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Increasingly these days, I am getting thoughtful emails from people who really do want to fix this country rather than leverage ignorance for selfish gain. Here is the YouTube that helped start the conversation: YouTube (5: 51) Robert Steele OWS Electoral Reform Proposal Below is a fine email with questions, and my answers. This is …
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The below link goes to Matt Ridley’s excellent lecture analyzing the importance of heresy in science; and by extension, the danger to science posed by an Authority that dictates what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. The oppression of authority is a subject Galileo learned to his chagrin, and a central theme of Jacob Bronoski’s …
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Dear Friend, As co-founder and CEO of Ben & Jerry¹s, I saw that big business has gobs of money, and yes, I believe they should pay their fair share. However, the bank accounts of Fortune 500 companies pale in comparison to the US Treasury. In order to defeat poverty and financial instability we need to …
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From TechCrunch. Trends below, 66 slide show here. 1. Globality – We Aren’t In Kansas Anymore… Meeker revealed that 81% of users of the top ten global internet properties are outside the USA, which makes global markets a force to be reckoned with. 2. Mobile – Early Innings Growth, Still… iPhones, iPods and iPads have …
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Yesterday, the Nieman Watchdog journalism group at Harvard asked me to evaluate how well the press is scrutinizing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Basically, it’s not; instead, Panetta seems to be free of informed, skeptical questioning; he must be absolutely delighted with the treatment he is receiving. Why is the press ignoring Panetta’s frenzied rhetoric …
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China makes ‘secret eurozone commitment’ AFP, 16 October 2011 LONDON — China has made a “secret commitment” to prop up the crisis-hit eurozone in return for budget reforms and public sector cuts, the Sunday Times reported, amid ongoing turmoil over the region’s debt crisis. The paper said Chinese representatives at the Paris G20 finance gathering …
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