Vladimir Putin: New Rules or a Game Without Rules — Defining Responsible Powers and Investing in Human Capital Instead of Propaganda

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin

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!

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William Colby: Security in an Open Society — Address on Secrecy Given at NSA in 1973

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Hon. William Colby
Hon. William Colby

Security in an Open Society

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.”

Mini-Me: German Mustard Gas Used by Iraq Against Iran Under US Supervision — Is Russian Money Buying the Truth?

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Media
Who?  Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

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.

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Jean Lievens: The sharing economy – make it sustainable

03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

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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Berto Jongman: German Government Paper on Known US / CIA, USN, US Army Proliferation of Ebola in Africa and Asia

02 Infectious Disease, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Military, Officers Call
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

America’s Weaponization of Ebola

Wayne MADSEN | 24.10.2014 | 00:00

Evidence has recently surfaced in a 2009 U.S. embassy Berlin cable to the U.S. State and Defense Departments that German authorities hesitated to send hemorrhagic fever cultures to the suspected biological warfare laboratory at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland because the Germans feared the Army might «weaponize» the cultures.

The cable, classified as «Sensitive», is dated December 15, 2009 and states:

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