The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Cynthia McKinney has integrity, and is committed to transparency and truth. Most of what the public is viewing and reading about Libya is a manufactured lie. What NATO is doing in attacking Tripoli is illegal, immoral, and a war crime by any standard. As we have previously shown, this is about oil, …
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Spitting and urinating chimps ‘replay Aesop’s fable’ Good text and several short videos. Most interesting: comparison of young children of various ages with the chimps, on the same problem. Tip of the hat to Perry Bezanis via email.
31 May 2011: BBC Link corrected. Dear friends, The personal is political. This is true in so many ways. I am part of my culture and social systems, and they are part of me, embedded in me. They shape how I think and act, how I respond, what I think is right and possible — …
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From Cynthia McKinney Anatomy of a Murder: How NATO Killed Qaddafi Family Members 28 May 2011 How many times must a parent bury a child? Well, in the case of Muammar Qaddafi it’s not only twice: once for his daughter, murdered by the United States bombing on his home in 1986, and again on 30 …
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Robert Gates: Pitchman for a Declining Empire By Werther* Robert M. Gates is one of those people the Beltway Consensus refers to as a “serious adult”: not overtly partisan, measured in his pronouncements, possessed of actual knowledge about the job he has been charged to do. The adulation he has received is certainly understandable if …
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Just got fired from Wells Fargo. RE: the following email So…here’s what I wrote. It’s missing a handy chart where it depicts the average Wells employee’s hourly salary vs. the CEO’s salary, but you get the gist. Full disclosure, I had been working here for a few months and this was to be my last …
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BRICS’ open revolt against European grip on IMF Narayan Lakshman The Hindu, 26 May 2011 Paris: The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Directors from the BRICS economies have openly revolted against the prospect of the Fund’s Managing Director role reverting to a European, deepening the woes of an organisation that was recently rocked to its very …
