June 2011 – Page 25 – Public Intelligence Blog

Mitt Romney is a decent human being with the best of intentions. He is also delusional. He really believes there are only two parties that matter in the USA, and he really believes that the government is unique in being responsive to a free people.

He does not believe we have a two-party tyranny in which 56% or so of the eligible voters vote, and 30% elect the “winner.” He does not believe that the ballot access laws are stacked to eliminate all competitors to the two-party tryanny.

He is incapable of uttering the word “corruption” as in “corruption is the primary characteristic of both of the political parties, of Congress, of the Executive, and of everything associated with them.” Mitt Romney is delusional. He is the best of the “status quo” candidates, the most articulate, and also the most unsuited to actually change anything to restore the Republic.

Mitt Romney is NOT going to make any promises to America, much less the Seven Promises that are fundamental to restoring the Republic and the prosperity in peace of America the Beautiful.

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Libya Chemical Weapons & NATO Chemical Threat

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Military, Peace Intelligence

SPECIAL FROM WAYNE MADSEN

Real danger of chemical weapons falling into hands of radical Islamists — and potential of NATO creating chemical disaster

TRIPOLI, LIBYA — Chemical weapons and chemical weapons precursor materials that were declared by Libya to the United Nations and United States but not yet destroyed are stored in warehouses at facilities adjacent to Libyan military bases now being attacked by U.S. and NATO forces. Libyan chemical and environmental engineers now warn that if NATO and the U.S. manage to force Libyan security forces to abandon their positions around the military bases and chemical weapons storage facilities, chemical weapons could end up in the hands of the radical Islamist Salafist forces that make up part of the Libyan rebel coalition force.

One Libyan chemical engineer was blunt in his warning about the chemical weapons and their current lack of security. He said, “the U.S. and U.N. took over responsibility for protecting these weapons, which include mustard gas canisters . . . now, the U.S. and U.N. are placing these weapons in danger of being captured by the “Al Qaeda” forces, being sold on the black market, or being used against the United States after the alliance between “Al Qaeda” and the United States terminates after a rebel takeover of Libya.” The engineer added, “the last time America allied itself with “Al Qaeda” in Afghanistan, they attacked you country. After Libya, they will attack you again.”

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Contributing Editor John Marke

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John Marke is writer/consultant, formerly the senior risk expert at Deloitte’s Federal Practice and an advisor to a Presidential candidate on terrorism. He is one of the country’s leading authorities on risk, complexity and resilience, and also contributes on asymmetrical warfare and transnational threats. His clients include The White House, DHS, USJFORCOM, USC’s Center for Risk & Economic Analysis of Terrorism, PriceWaterhouse, and Harvard University. John was a paratrooper and Marine before a disabling injury. He later served as a Naval Cryptologist and Intelligence Officer.

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Link TV Educating Americans About Real World

04 Education, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Peace Intelligence, Whole Earth Review

Dear Friends far and wide:

Link TV in San Francisco is a precious resource for the progressive/transpartisan communities, and we¹re asking you to join us in making a gift to Link.

In December 1999, our good friend and colleague, Kim Spencer,
http://www.linktv.org/whoweare/staff launched Link TV, the first nationwide television network dedicated to providing Americans with global perspectives on news, events and culture. In the wake of media consolidation. Americans have little access to diverse perspectives on critical global issues, and Link challenges this trend. Today, Link is now broadcast into 35 million homes across the US (largely through DISH, DIRECT TV and with some cable outlets), has 6.7 million regular viewers (many across the political and cultural divides), and provides coverage not found anywhere else in the US.

Link is the only US provider of Al Jazeera English, broadcasts Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! daily, and has won a Peabody Award for its Middle East news program, Mosaic.

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2011/06/05

Cynthia McKinney from Libya: Day Three

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

From Cynthia McKinney: Tripoli Dispatch – Day Three (includes photos and video link!)‏

From Wayne Madsen (www.waynemadsenreport.com):

June 5-6, 2011 — TRIPOLI, LIBYA. NATO war crimes in Libya exposed

In the current NATO war on Libya, the citizens of European and North American NATO countries are being treated to the largest propaganda blitz by their governments in cahoots with corporate media outlets since the U.S.-led invasions and occupation of Iraq. The situation on the ground in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, could not more different from what is being portrayed by Western news networks and newspapers.

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National Security Decision-Making in the USG

10 Security, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Military, Threats

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius Recommends

DoD major commands have serious staffs that try to do the right thing. The same cannot be said for White House staffers or the intelligence community staffs promoted to their maximum level of incompetence. Reading between the lines of the below article, it's possible to see a national security decision-making process that is to close to “ready fire aim.”

Washington Post, June 5, 2011, Pg. 17

Rewriting Rumsfeld's Rules, By David Ignatius

Phi Beta Iota: David Ignatius is clearly among the lead writers striving to give Dr. Robert Gates a “legacy” (mythical as it might be). Missing from his various odes are the fact that decisions are not being made on the basis of facts or with the public interest firmly in mind.

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