Doug Macgregor: Fiscal Reality and the American Way of War
Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics, Government, Peace Intelligence
Fiscal Reality and the American Way of War
What is the strategic meaning of America's military drawdown? In this article, Macgregor explains the rationale for a reduced footfrint overseas and the results demand for “high lethality/low density forces” in American military power.
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Robert Steele: Memorandum for Donald Trump
Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Note: I have attempted to persuade, in this order, the following presidential candidates of the need for electoral reform: Sanders, O'Mally, Bloomberg, and Kasich. Donald Trump is our last best hope for electoral reform.
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. DONALD TRUMP
18 October 2016
Background: I wrote the first article, “Counter-Coup: How Trump Can Win,” for Counterpunch, as published 14 August 2015. I have been unsuccessful at connecting with the campaign despite repeated attempts inclusive of three visits to Paul Manafort’s office in Alexandria to deliver an updated version of How Trump Can Win. I have not given up. The margin of victory right now is too small – listening to me will help shift the numbers even at this late date – “winning white” is not good enough. Cynthia McKinney is still available to help, as are others, they simply need to be asked.
Death Blows Against Clinton: the following four sound-bites can be used to very good effect. The first two expand on incomplete attacks now in place, the second two are completely new to the public although evidently somewhat familiar to Donald Trump and his executive team.
Continue reading “Robert Steele: Memorandum for Donald Trump”
Owl: Wikipedia as a Memory Hole — Journalists as Shills — a Public that Embraces “Protective Stupidity” . . .
Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, IO Impotency, Media
From Orwell to Gladwell and Back
The technology of power is moving from the past’s emphasis on privacy and concealment toward more contemporary techniques of diversion, bias, misconception, and willful stupidity. The crude methods that George Orwell summed up in his image of the incinerator-chute “memory hole” are growing into more sophisticated devices for providing the public with misleading frameworks for mentally organizing (or rationalizations for simply ignoring) the overload of available facts, thus making it harder to remember or understand politically inconvenient knowledge.
We see some of the old-fashioned memory-hole techniques at work currently with Wikipedia. Read full article.
Owl: Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 Emails Being Released 1 November — Proves Treason by Hillary Clinton, Complicity by Obama, Lynch, & Comey UPDATE 1
#Events, 02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Officers CallClinton Campaign About to Be Splattered Into a Million Pieces
by Release of 33,000 Illicitly Destroyed Emails Showing Influence Peddling Quid Pro Quos and Other High Crimes as Well as Racism, Committing Felonies on Camera
Anonymous sources on 4chan are saying that Wikileaks has Hillary’s 33,000 deleted emails, and what’s in them will mean the end of her candidacy and maybe obliterate the Democratic Party. According to link above, the planned release of the material is November 1st, in 4 or 5 sets. Teasers: Money funneled to ISIS, Obama rattling the war drums against Russia to distract from what’s in the leaks, Hillary on racist rants against black subordinates, bribes to media and election officials. Break out the popcorn when it arrives!
UPDATE 1:
Copy of teaser emails, comment, and more links below the fold.
Del Spurlock: Propaganda Defeats the Public Interest — The Legalization of Lies, the Triumph of Corporations Over People
Civil Society, Ethics
Spinning the Inhumanity of our National Policies
We are failing to govern ourselves. The concept of American democracy has been driven from the field by the public relations industry.
Today we consume far beyond our means, are governed by the exploitation of our fears, and are denied the civic participation decreed by our Constitution.
…it was the Reagan Administration that delivered the most significant blow to our capacity to communicate with one another and thereby govern ourselves. The public relations cadre around the President lead by Michael Deaver and Charles Wick forced the abandonment of the FCC's Fairness Doctrine. The constraints on propaganda in the public media evaporated as did journalism's capacity to speak truth to power.
Del Spurlock: Army Recruits Arrive Knowing Less
Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Military, Officers CallSusanne M. Schafer of Associated Press offers a useful perspective on how Army recruits are changing and how the Army is changing to accommodate lower levels of knowledge about what used to be “basic.”
Fewer orders, more coaching: Army rookies learn to fire guns
As gun ownership drops among young Americans and the Army trains a generation more accustomed to blasting out emojis on cellphones than taking aim at targets, drill sergeants are confronting a new challenge: More than half of raw recruits have never held, let alone fired, a weapon.
Phi Beta Iota: Apart from only 1% of youth being eligible for the Army because the other 99% suffer from a broad range of disqualifying conditions including obesity, now we are realizing that new Army recruits simply don't know what past generations knew. A fresh look is needed at the relationship between the Army, education, and society. There may be roles for the Boy Scouts of America and the National Rifle Association — we have lost our foundation for a strong Army.
