The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
New Rules or a Game without Rules: “We Need a New Global Consensus of Responsible Powers”
We are publishing full text of today’s address of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to the members of Vaidai International Discussion Club on 24 October 2014 in Sochi. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9pQcqPdKo
Complete Transcript Below the Fold — Strongly Recommended!
1. FYI.
2. Chilling/radical–absolutely.
3. Secret–not at all. Read Disouza and Alinski.
The following is an edited version of the address given in the NSA Auditorium in November as the feature of Security Week 1973.
PDF (4 Pages): Colby on Secrecy at NSA in 1973
EXTRACT
“We are all also aware of Gresham's law in economics, which says that bad money drives out good. If we overclassify, we develop in people's minds a contempt for the classification rules, for if some items that really are not secret at all are classified, it means the whole system is nonsense.”
Journalist Reveals Iraqis Used German Mustard Gas on Iranians Under US Watch in 1988
MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) – A prominent German journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, has revealed that Iraqis, guided by the United States, used German mustard gas against Iranian soldiers in 1988.
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The mustard gas was brought to Iraq from Germany labeled as “pesticides,” Ulfkotte explained in the e-mail. “The US gave the satellite photos of the Iranian positions and supervised the action and the Iraqis did it – and I photographed it and was not allowed to publish it,” the journalist said.
The sharing economy: make it sustainable
Damien Demailly; Anne-Sophie Novel
Studies N°03/2014. Iddri, 2014. 32 p.
Is the sharing economy a tool for ecological transition? The main objective of this report is to analyse the environmental potential of the sharing economy, considered in its full diversity, and the conditions for the realization of this potential.
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Insights of Intelligence Insiders on (Non-) Sharing Intelligence
Musa Tuzuner, Ph.D
Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, Ankara, Turkey
This study surveys the Turkish intelligence community's (non-) sharing intelligence behavior. The factors affecting failures to share intelligence and now to increase intelligence sharing practices are examined based on the views of Turkish intelligence insiders. These insiders' views reveal that the complexity of bureaucratic structures, lack of trust, compartmentalization, power, egoism, fear, information groupings, lack of reciprocity and lack of feedback are the causes for non-sharing of intelligence. Policy solutions for shifting from non-sharing toward sharing behaviors is discussed in a new framework including respective government willingness, enhancing capacity of intelligence collection, building intelligence aquariums, creating rules for establishing new intelligence sharing, opening up communications channels, training, and support for sharing culture. This framework argues that policy change should start first at the agency level, then at the community level and finally at the international level.
PDF (16 Pages): Turkish Intelligence Non-Sharing Behavior
Douglas MacKinnon
5.0 out of 5 stars Patriotic Cry from the Heart — Should NOT Be Ignored!, October 24, 2014
It breaks my heart to see reasonable credible cries from the heart on secession put forward, and to then see critics commenting on this material without thinking — in some cases obviously without reading the book at all, just reacting in a Pavlovian (unthinking instinct) manner to the title. This is a five-star book. Yes, it has many weak-points but at root this is a patriotic book that is highlighting the criminal insanity of the totally corrupt federal government (all three branches), and the wanton destruction of the USA — of the middle class, of the blue collar master class, of the rising youth and declining old guys like myself, and of the veterans where suicide now kills more serving military in the field than combat action, and 22 veterans a day commit suicide at home in the USA.
I used to be a Reagan Republican. I broke with the Grand Old Party (GOP) when I realized it had sold out all of us, without exception, in favor of the Koch Brothers and their likes — and when I realized that because of this treason against the Republic, our media, our schools, our labor unions, are local city councils, our legislatures, were all dumbed down and drugged up. So I do NOT agree with the author on many of his own blind beliefs, but I respect the argument he is making and I would say that the question of secession — which I offset with my own emphasis on the need for Electoral Reform restoring the integrity of the US Government to include respect for the US Constitution, are the essential conversation we all need to have in the next two years.
