The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Tip of the Hat to Frank Bacon
State Dept Dan Rosen’s Arrest: Cheat Sheet for Journos
Highlights: 01 Hundreds of federal as well as state employees are being caught not just with child porn, but engaged in child abuse; 02 The Department of Justice refuses to track these crimes as a group; 03 Congress refuses to consider the Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act. Lists specific arrests across CIA, FBI, DOJ, DHS, DOT, TSA, and ICE.
Despite fears about the many negatives from a Donald Trump presidency, one positive could be his shattering of the monopoly that neocons and liberal hawks now hold over U.S. foreign policy, says Robert Parry.
Trump’s Challenge
Julian Assange: “Donald? It's a change anyway”
The interview. The Wikileaks cofounder: “Our source Chelsea Manning tortured in USA”
di STEFANIA MAURIZI
ON POWER:
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Julian Assange on Power…and Trump and Clinton…”
Read what the President-elect's National Security Advisor had to say about winning wars a couple of months ago. Military Review is the professional journal of the Army's intermediate-level professional school, the Command and General Staff College.
How about Winning Our Nation’s Wars Instead of Just Participating in Them?
Extracts Below the Fold
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Mike Flynn on Winning Wars”
Memorable URL: http://tinyurl.com/Spy-Xmas-DT
Federal Reserve is now initiating the economic end game
We have heard endless lies and rationalizations…
As I have been arguing for most of the past year, the election of Donald Trump was inevitable and would precede the triggering of the final stage of our ongoing economic crisis. I came to realize that the Fed’s timing of their latest rate hike is highly strategic. Not only does it set the stage for a series of hikes that will crush U.S. stock markets this coming year and finally shock the public out of their fiscal stupor, but it also maneuvers the crisis right into the lap of Donald Trump and the conservative movements that support him.
…the truth is, vigilance is needed now more than ever. I said it before the election and I’ll say it today — do not get comfortable; the times are about to get even more interesting.
BBC at risk of death — CIA's OSE allegedly covers 75% of world to BBC's 25%.
Open Source Stupidity: The Threat to the BBC Monitoring Service
In addition to further severe budget cuts, BBC Monitoring is currently facing the loss of its Caversham Park headquarters (formerly owned by the Government) and many of its specialists who have no wish to relocate. . . . We therefore conclude that the Government must reinstate funding of the service in order to protect its skilled staff and specialist infrastructure. If the BBC is not willing to co-operate, then the Government should recognise the folly of the 2010 decision; take back ownership of Caversham Park; restore the modest central funding required and reconstitute the Monitoring Service as a state-owned Open Source Information Agency, in order to guarantee its future, once and for all.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Death of BBC, Questionable Capacity of CIA's OSE”
