The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us
Clean House: Exposing Our Government’s Secrets and Lies
In Lies We Trust: How Politicians and the Media Are Deceiving the American Public
Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
Deputy Secretary of Labor who conceptualized the ‘Side Agreements” to NAFTA. First in a series on Mr. Obama's trade based quest for an American Protectorate over the Far East.
The Transpacific trade deal creates a military protectorate confronting China and has secret side deals permitting domestic and foreign corporations to over-ride sovereign and community interests of the American people. Jeff Faux gets it right from the beginning:
TPP: The “National Security” Sales Pitch
Like other trade deals since NAFTA, is the TPP also just a device for capitalists to drive down the wages of American workers?
5G – the next mobile phone technology around the corner – has been given the official seal of approval and go-ahead for roll-out. The FCC has said ‘yes' to a technology that will use the 5 to 100 GHz microwave band… but questions of what all those high power microwaves will do to humans are being evaded…
5G Technology Approved: US FCC Evades Questions About Wireless Dangers
The Federal Communications Commission just rubber-stamped their rollout of “5G” cellular technology which, while increasing throughput, would blanket the planet with ultra-high microwave frequencies — 24Ghz and up.
The fact that these frequencies have never been tested as safe is not stopping corporate-government plans for building a “massive infrastructure.”
Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Criminal Insanity at FCC?”
What lessons should be learnt from 15 years of counter-terror and stabilisation?
By aiding and abetting abuse, corruption and bad governance in Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, Western actors fell into the ‘stabilisation trap’: trading away a long-term focus on rights and governance for short-term stability – but ultimately guaranteeing abusive governance, chronic instability and deep public resentment. As these examples show, ‘terrorists’ may not be the worst threat to stability in conflict contexts, and lasting peace in contexts like Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan will prove elusive without facing up to the cynicism and abuse of supposed ‘partners’.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Lessons Learned on Counter-Terrorism — A History of Failure”
US Government: Computer Infrastructure
Notice that the US Federal government spent $0.68 cents of every IT dollar on operations and maintenance in 2010. Jump to the 2017 estimate. Notice that the status quo is likely to consume $0.77 cents of every IT dollar.
Bam! Pow! Zap! Palantir Steps Up Fight with US Army
I recall one Master of the Universe telling me, “Keep the client happy.” Today an alternative approach has emerged [and is being pioneered by Palantir]. I term it “Fight with the client.” I assume the tactic works really well.
The FBI spent $1.3M to crack the iPhone — this hacker spent just $100
A security researcher has demonstrated that the passcode of an iPhone can be cracked using off-the-shelf components which cost just $100 — a tiny fraction of the $1.3 million the FBI paid a third party to do the same thing in the case of an iPhone 5C belonging to the San Bernardino shooter earlier this year. In a video posted on YouTube and an accompanying paper describing the technique, University of Cambridge associate researcher Sergei Skorobogatov showed how a four digit passcode could be revealed in less than two days using a technique known as Nand mirroring.
