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Mini-Me: Don’t Reform the CIA. Abolish It

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
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Who? Mini-Me?

Don’t Reform the CIA. Abolish It.

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Anyone who reads the works of the late Chalmers Johnson will have an excellent understanding of the role that the U.S. national-security state, especially the vast military empire and military-industrial complex, plays in America’s foreign-policy woes. I particularly recommend his four books: Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, Nemesis, and Dismantling the Empire. For those who would prefer to begin with online articles, here is a link to an article I wrote in 2011 that contains a list of some of the online articles written by Johnson.

Among the most insightful articles written by Johnson are two that are pertinent today, given the controversy that has erupted over the CIA’s spying on Congress. The titles of those two articles are: “Abolish the CIA” and “Improve the CIA? Better to Abolish It.”

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Berto Jongman: Appraisal of US False Flag Possibilities in Ukraine

Idiocy, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

I find it difficult to judge. It is interesting to read the comments by various ‘ anonymous' people. Much of the confusion seems to be related to a bad translation of Ukrainian to English.  There is a tremendous information war going on. Today Kerry and Merkel have stepped up the pressure by giving very strong  and threatening statements. Yatsenyuk spoke at the UNSC. The first oligarch has been arrested abroad At the same time both sides are deploying and positing military forces. The situation is very tense and there are all kinds of shady paramilitary militia-like groups running round  that could create incidents that could lead to unwanted escalation. I was surprised that we've seen not more incidents yet and that Ukrainians have been very calm and did not let themselves be provoked. We have to see what will happen tomorrow and how the West will respond. I am getting more and more worried that we are slowly moving to a military confrontation.  A false flag could speed up developments. It all reminds me of the Balkan war in the 1990s. The EU and the West were very slow in their reactions and did not want to believe that a war was coming and hoped that diplomacy could solve the problems. Currently many politicians have stated that nobody wants war and that we have to let diplomacy do its work while nobody seems to see the military preparations.

Hacked Email from U.S. Army Attache in Ukraine – Four False Flags to occur so U.S. can take military action against Russia

 

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Berto Jongman: Enemies of the Internet

Government, IO Impotency
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended to track countries that repress online speech, intimidate and arrest bloggers, and conduct surveillance of their citizens.  Some countries have been mainstays on the annual index, while others have been able to work their way off the list.  Two countries particularly deserving of praise in this area are Tunisia and Myanmar (Burma), both of which have stopped censoring the Internet in recent years and are headed in the right direction toward Internet freedom.

In the former category are some of the world’s worst offenders: Cuba, North Korea, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Belarus, Bahrain, Turkmenistan, Syria.  Nearly every one of these countries has amped up their online repression in recent years, from implementing sophisticated surveillance (Syria) to utilizing targeted surveillance tools (Vietnam) to increasing crackdowns on online speech (Saudi Arabia).  These are countries where, despite advocacy efforts by local and international groups, no progress has been made.

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Owl: Malaysian Airlines Flight Hijacked via AWACS? Chinese Engineers Renditioned? Update 4 Diego Garcia Redux, Boeing Cyber Hijack

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military
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Who? Who?

UPDATE 16 Mar 14: Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Redirected to Diego Garcia?

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Is missing Malaysian jet the world’s first CYBER HIJACK? Chilling new theory claims hackers could use a mobile phone to take over the controls

UPDATE 15 Mar 14: Malaysia Airline MH370: 9/11-style terror allegations resurface in case of lost plane

UPDATE 14 Mar 14:  CONFIRMED: Flight 370 Cyberjacked to secret base in Indian ocean – American or Chinese?

The story gets weirder and weirder as one looks at it. Goes beyond what is noted below in talking extensively about an AWACs jet hijack of 370, involvement of Israel and other things. Don't have the time to untangle this all, but the picture is becoming less cloudy and coming back full-circle in its reference to Israel and Iran in this AWACs-hijack context, and Israeli involvement was what I pointed out in my very first post on this subject.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/03/case-closed-hijacked-by-awacs-2916516.html

From http://www.jimstonefreelance.com [allegedly shut down]

Malaysian airlines flight 377 has been provably hijacked by an AWACS plane. This is outlined in the updates below.

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Owl: Was a Harry Potter-Like Electronic “Cloak of Invisibility” Used on Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 by Freescale Semiconductor Contractors?

Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Military
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Was a Harry Potter-Like Electronic “Cloak of Invisibility” Used on Flight 370 by Freescale Semiconductor Contractors?

This article comprehensively brings together virtually all the reported facts about Flight 370 of Malaysian Airlines and well worth reading entirely. However, the most interesting information from it, not shared in other sources, to my knowledge, except where they got it from, and I have been looking hard, is information on the very special background of 20 passengers on flight 370. Here's the extract on it:
“In a more radical theory, the possibility of electronic warfare has also been raised following confirmation that there were at least 20 passengers onboard from Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor. Each of these passengers had specialist knowledge of electronic technology for defence applications. This could include ‘cloaking’ technology that uses a hexagonal array of glasslike panels to bend light around an object, such as plane, according to a report in Beforeitsnews.com. Other techniques may have been used to jam signals, allowing the plane to vanish from radar detection without its security systems being activated.

It is conceivable that the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane is “cloaked,” hiding with hi-tech electronic warfare weaponry that exists and is used,’ Beforeitsnews.com wrote. ‘In fact, this type of technology is precisely the expertise of Freescale that has 20 employees on board the missing flight.’ ‘These were people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people,’ Mr Mitch Haws, Global communications officer for the tech company, said. The company recently launched a major initiative dedicated to serving radio frequency power needs of U.S. aerospace and defence sector.”

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Winslow Wheeler: Pentagon’s $1 Trillion a Year Budget — We Do Not Make This Stuff Up!

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, Corruption, Government, Military, Officers Call
Winslow Wheeler
Winslow Wheeler

America's $1 Trillion National Security Budget

by Winslow T. Wheeler

March 13, 2014

The Pentagon's current leadership and most on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in Congress describe President Obama's 2015 defense budget request as painfully austere, if not dangerously inadequate.  The defense trade press is full of statements from generals, admirals and the other politicians from both political parties that there is not nearly enough money available to buy adequate amounts of new hardware,  maintain current pay and benefits or provide even low amounts of training and equipment maintenance.  As a result, they are looking for ways to relieve the Pentagon from its penury.

Scarcity of money is not their problem.  Pentagon costs, taken together with other known national security expenses for 2015, will exceed $1 Trillion.  How can that be?  The trade press is full of statements about the Pentagon's $495.6 billion budget and how low that is. 

There is much more than $495.6 billion in the budget for the Pentagon, and there are piles of national security spending outside the Pentagon-all of it as elemental for national security as any new aircraft and ships and the morale and well-being of our troops.

The table below details what a careful observer will find in President Obama's 2015 budget presentation materials.  The amounts for the Pentagon are well above the advertised $495.6 billion, and there are several non-Pentagon accounts that are clearly relevant. 

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