The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sunday, 31 July 2011 JOURNAL: Rumored US DoD Cuts Here’s what is circulating (assuming this budget impasse can be resolved, it gets more severe if it isn’t): DoD to cut $800 billion over 4 years. $200 billion a year out of a $600 b budget. 3 government employees must retire/leave before any new hire is …
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Michael Sandal’s book, as reviewed here at Phi Beta Iota (see Review: Public Philosophy–Essays on Morality in Politics) prompted my putting forward some related links and thoughts. I highly recommend Michael Sandal’s TED presentation The Lost Art of Democratic Debate “Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says — but we’re shamefully out of practice. …
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Following below are several headlines about the prospects for the Defense Budget. As an overarching summary, what you need to know is that, at the working level, the fiscal decrements are already impacting heavily. We simply do not have the resources to do the routine work necessary to steward the force and plan for the future. …
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While the U.S. government may be described as a massive wealth transferring scheme, looting the middle class for the elite, I’d suggest that ‘wealth’ and ‘elite’ are not precisely correct. The transformation in Western power structures over past three centuries is such that the ‘elite’ was formerly indistinguishable from the government, which is the hallmark …
Lawmakers slash budget for Defense Department’s information ops By Walter Pincus Congress is slowly but surely trying to get the Pentagon to cut back on its overseas information operations, most of which end up being done by contractors. The latest hint has come from the House Appropriations Committee, which has sliced about $125 million from …
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Afghanistan: Special Comment. Longtime Readers know that NightWatch has had a continuing project to monitor the security situation in Afghanistan since mid-2006, using a consistent sample of unclassified reporting. In 2006, when the Taliban resurgence was just beginning, NightWatch began publishing monthly summaries of the security situation. In the past three years, the number of …
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UPDATED 26 Oct 2011 to add YouTube overview Seven Promises to America – Raising the Bar for 2012 UPDATED 20 June 2011 after talking to Cynthia McKinney. Changes 7th promise to subsume End of Empire to Start of Green Non-Zero World that works for all. Over the course of the past decade, as I have …
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