The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
WikiLeaks plans to release thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank in early 2011, Forbes magazine reported on Monday. “You could call it the ecosystem of corruption,” Assange told Forbes during an interview in London, but refused to provide details about the bank. MORE @ http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article923432.ece?homepage=true Phi Beta Iota: Our hope for the …
Taliban commanders in Afghanistan reacted with amusement this weekend to news of an impostor who, by claiming he was a senior Taliban leader, managed to fool NATO officials and get invited to high-level peace talks. “Imagine,” Mohammad Hafiz, a senior Taliban commander, told The Daily Beast, “if a shopkeeper from Quetta can make a fool …
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The U.S. government’s crackdown on file sharing and counterfeiting has taken a new and disturbing turn. Yesterday, we reported that the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office had seized Torrent-Finder.com, a site that linked to other sites that hosted and shared torrent files of copyrighted material. The news itself was not too …
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China, Russia quit dollar By Su Qiang and Li Xiaokun (China Daily) Updated: 2010-11-24 08:02 St. Petersburg, Russia – China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday. Chinese experts said …
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Death by a Thousand Cuts See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda’s recent attacks haven’t succeeded doesn’t mean the terrorist group’s overall strategy is failing. Foreign Policy BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | NOVEMBER 23, 2010 “Two Nokia phones, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses add up …
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Policy Priorities for Versailles on the Potomac: Let Them Eat Cake. Chuck The New York Times November 19, 2010 Hiding From Reality By BOB HERBERT However you want to define the American dream, there is not much of it that’s left anymore. Wherever you choose to look — at the economy and jobs, the public …
Nato maps out Afghanistan withdrawal by 2014 at Lisbon summit Alliance leaders meet with Hamid Karzai to discuss handover of security but pledge not to simply leave country to its fate David Batty Guardian UK, Saturday 20 November 2010 Read lengthy review of why NATO is not leaving….
