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As he has gotten older , Barnett has gotten a lot wiser. He has put together a really good analysis of the current U.S. military strategic thinking or lack thereof.

The self-serving Military Industrial Complex fantasy that is AirSea Battle

Thomas Barnett

Nice WAPO piece (by Greg Jaffe, of course) on the great COIN counterattack that is the AirSea Battle. As scenario work goes, what CSBA has done in its war-games has to rank right up there with the most egregiously implausible efforts ever made to justify arms build-ups. These games, done for Andrew Marshall's Office of Net Assessment, enthusiastically embrace what I have long dubbed the exceedingly narrow “war within the context of war” mindset – purposefully zeroing out all outside existing reality that readily contradicts the core operational concepts behind AirSea Battle.

For my most complete criticism of ASBC, see “Big-War Thinking in a Small-War Era: The Rise of the AirSea Battle Concept” for China Security

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2012/08/052012/08/05

Robert Steele: Audio of SPY IMPROV at Hackers on Planet Earth

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Knowledge

Several HOPES ago, Robert Steele started doing separate Q&A sessions using his knowledge as a former spy, pioneer of open source intelligence, advocate of multinational sense-making, and #1 Amazon reviewer for nonfiction. At The Next HOPE (2010), with help from those who stayed with him, he set what may be the world record for Q&A, eight hours and one minute, from midnight Saturday to 0801 Sunday.

YouTube (2:o2:25)

Cited Sources:

Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)

Technologies Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

YouTube: General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned – Seven Countries In Five Years

Mark Palmer, Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025

The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's “Tunnel Rats” in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam

Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2003)

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2012/08/052012/08/06

Former Comptroller General David Walker, Wall Street Trojan Horse, Rides Again – The Bus Tour to Distract the Public From Electoral Reform

Commerce, Corruption, Economics/True Cost, Government, Politics

UPDATED 8 August 2012 with comments from Common Cause, others.

Buyer Beware – A New York Shill Takes to the Highway

The Hon. David M. Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General, today announced a first-of-its-kind national bus tour to engage Americans about our nation's deteriorating financial condition and show them what they can do to help restore fiscal sanity.

The “$10 Million a Minute Tour” will help voters understand that we face a fiscal cliff in January 2013 and a possible U.S. debt crisis within the next two years.

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ROBERT STEELE: David Walker quit his job as Comptroller General at year 9 of a 15 year appointment. He substituted loyalty for integrity in failing to publicly challenge the deregulation of the banking industry in the Clinton Administration (1999, perhaps feeling too new to the office he was given), and when he finally did sound the alarm in 2007 on the fiscal crisis, he failed to publicly challenge the two presidential candidates, then sitting Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, for failing to heed his alarm.

He accepted a golden parachute offer from Peter Peterson, a Wall Street magnate, and has done little of value since leaving the government in 2008, the highlights being a mediocre website, a movie nobody has seen, and a rather nice back-door beefing up of the Wikipedia Page on Balance Budget, something that was reprinting in ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (2008).

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2012/08/042012/08/04

Marcus Aurelius: Understanding Amateurs at the White House with Comment by Robert Steele as Posted at Foreign Policy

Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Knowledge, Politics

ForeignPolicy.com, August 2, 2012

Thought Cloud

The real problem with the civilian-military gap.

By Rosa Brooks

One of the biggest misunderstandings about the civilian-military gap is that it is cultural — the national security version of the red state-blue state divide.

But the distance between those in and out of uniform isn't fundamentally a matter of Texas vs. Massachusetts or NASCAR vs. Wimbledon. At the most basic level, it encompasses deeply different understandings of how we think — how we plan, how we evaluate risk, even how we define problems in the first place. Ironically, the one place where the gap should be the most avoidable is the place where its effects are the most pernicious: Washington.

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2012/08/04

Mini-Me: US Government Lies to the US People? Huh?

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

Huh?

Reagan Assistant Secretary of Commerce Paul Craig Roberts: Friday’s Jobs Report: More Lies From “our” Big Brother

EXTRACT:

In his report on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs and unemployment report, statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) writes: “The July employment and unemployment numbers published today, August 3rd, were worthless and likely misleading. . . .

The government that lies to you about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, about Iraq’s al Qaeda connections, about the Taliban in Afghanistan, about Osama bin Laden, about Libya and Gadhafi, about Iranian nukes, about Syria, about Pakistan, about Yemen and Somalia, about Bradley Manning, about Julian Assange and Wikileaks, indeed about everything under the sun, also lies to you about jobs, unemployment, economic recovery, GDP growth, 9/11, the “terrorist threat,” everything. Try to find anything that the government has said over the past 6 presidential terms that is not a lie.

Huh?

Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences? The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.

Primers on Government Economic Reports What you've suspected but were afraid to ask. The story behind unemployment, the Federal Deficit, CPI, GDP.

Phi Beta Iota: The public is a power that can be manipulated, lied to, abused, and generally ignored–up to a a point. It is also a power that cannot be repressed when it explodes in self-awareness. One soccer mom torching herself–of 18 veterans who will commit suicide on any one day, but doing so together on the steps of Capital Hill, will rock the USA.

Bob Seelert, Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide (New York): When things are not going well, until you get the truth out on the table, no matter how ugly, you are not in a position to deal with it.

2012/08/032012/08/03

Owl: US CDC FDA DHS Conflicts of Interest & Impeachable Act that Kill Citizens

07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Government

Conflicts of Interest and Revolving Doors that Affect Health and Well Being

This important article has various examples of government/private industry revolving door employment and conflicts of interest in the medical industrial complex that can and has killed people.

Example of revolving door from it:

“Joining a parade of other high-ranking government officials who pass through the revolving doors between government and Big Pharma, [Julie] Gerberding [former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—an agency charged with overseeing vaccines and drug companies] left a trail of controversy behind her when she left the CDC. While a 2009 article by the Institute for Southern Studies lists a number of them, I believe they left out the most important ones, namely her misinformation campaign about the pandemic swine flu vaccine, as well as her naive stance on vaccine safety issues in general.

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2012/08/032012/08/03

Mini-Me: Assassination & Election Cancellation Rumors Again

Corruption, Government, Politics

Huh?

Kelly Keisling, Tennessee Legislator, Mass Emailed Obama ‘Staged Assassination' Rumor

John Celock

Huffington Post, 31 July 2012

Rep. Kelly Keisling, a Republican member of the Tennessee state legislature is circulating a rumor in conservative circles that President Barack Obama is planning to stage a fake assassination attempt—-that he claims would lead to civil unrest in urban areas and martial law—-in an effort to stop the 2012 election from happening.

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Phi Beta Iota: Similar rumors circulated when Dick Cheny was making similar martial law moves, including Halliburton “resettlement” camps. The two-party tyranny is much smarter than that–Romney is the stalking horse this time, playing the role that Sarah Palin played. If he selects Condi Rice as his Vice President, this will be high theater indeed.

YouTube (7:18) The 2012 Elections Are Cancelled! YouTube

YouTube (14:10) OBAMA might CANCEL 2012 Elections! Dr. Jerome Corsi, Alex Jones pt 1

2012 Testing the Two-Party Tyranny and Open Source Everything – The Battle for the Soul of the Republic