UPDATED 2 November 2012 to add 450-ship Navy and other military implications of intelligence with integrity
Marcus Aurelius: CIA Panetta Memo on Presidential Authorization of Bin Laden Hit
07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call
As posted at http://cryptocomb.org/cia-
Phi Beta Iota: This may well be authentic, but it is highly suspect. A signed Presidential finding is needed for such a project, one does not undertake such initiatives without that written document, nor accept a phone call from a lesser aide as a substitute–nor should JSOG be doing anything without that written finding, certainly not on the verbal word of the CIA Director. We continue to believe that CIA created an Oswald situation, a patsy, for JSOG to kill and dump without credible forensic evidence. There is uncertainty as to whether Obama actually authorized the mission–it may have been done against his wishes as the placeholder president. We continue to believe that former Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Steve Pieczenik has it right — Bin Laden died in 2001. Our only certainty is that the truth is quite distant from the “Bin Laden Story” as told to date.
See Also:
Bin Laden Show 16: Over-Ruling the President
Bin Laden Show 08: History from 2001 Updated
Bin Laden Show: Entries 01-79 UPDATED 24 March 2012
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)
Marcus Aurelius: US Army Chief of Staff Toes the Party Line + Meta-RECAP
Corruption, MilitaryForeign Affairs, May 1, 2012 also Army.mil
The U.S. Army In A Time Of Transition
Building a flexible force
By Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army Chief of Staff
After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The service will have to adjust to three major changes: declining budgets, due to the country's worsened fiscal situation; a shift in emphasis to the Asia-Pacific region; and a broadening of focus from counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and training of partners to shaping the strategic environment, preventing the outbreak of dangerous regional conflicts, and improving the army's readiness to respond in force to a range of complex contingencies worldwide.
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Gary North: Cancer Lobby Winning Big — Corrupt Congress is THE Cancer
07 Health, Corruption, Government
Health and Free Trade
by Gary North
Tea Party Economist
For over 250 years, economists – even before they were called economists – have struggled to solve a problem: how to persuade people that trade really is positive and that restrictions on trade really are negative. This is one more attempt.
Let us assume that your physician informs you that you have cancer. The type of cancer that you have is invariably fatal. He utters those words that estate planning lawyers thrive on: “You should get your affairs in order.”
You go home. After thinking about your situation, you go online in search of a solution. You come across an article on a proposed new cure. There is hope. But you find that the cure is experimental. It has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The estimated cost of getting through the FDA's legal hoops is $100 million. It will take seven years.
You do not have seven years.
Do you believe in free trade in proposed cancer cures? Now you do.
What if you could sign a legal waiver taking full responsibility for your actions? What if you are willing to let the discoverer off the hook legally for any negative outcome of the treatment? Sorry, no can do. That would be illegal.
Why would it be illegal?
There is a simple reason: “Because it would reduce the power of the Food and Drug Administration.” If every Tom, Dick, and Harry were willing to sign a waiver, then the FDA could not control drugs. This degree of open entry into the health care field would enable producers of health-care to get together with customers to arrange mutually agreeable solutions.
See Also:
Dolphin: Universal Cancer Vaccine Developed
Dolphin: Cancer Cure in Canada, Big Pharma NOT Interested
Owl: Pope Outraged Over Leaks on Vatican Corruption — Should He Adopt US Tactics?
Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence
No institution on planet Earth – no matter how allegedly “respectable” – seems exempt from lies, fraud, graft, corruption, and so on, and all of them are highly intent on exterminating the “whistleblowers” within them, even the Catholic Church:
Pope calls in Opus Dei troubleshooter to uncover source of Vatican leaks
Cardinal given ‘pontifical mandate' to hunt Holy See staffers releasing documents on corruption claims in ‘Vatileaks' scandal
“Vatican staffers who have been leaking embarrassing letters about corruption and nepotism inside the tiny city state are to be hunted down by a crack squad of cardinals led by a senior member of the religious group Opus Dei.
Irritated by the anonymous release of documents to the press this year, Pope Benedict has named Cardinal Julian Herranz, 82, to lead a three-man team which will haul in staffers for questioning and rifle through files until they catch the perpetrators of what has been dubbed “Vatileaks”.
A short statement printed on Thursday on the front page of the Vatican's daily newspaper warned the team had a full “pontifical mandate” to “shed complete light” on the whistle blowers, who have lifted the lid on alleged theft and false accounting.”
Phi Beta Iota: First off, whistleblowers are becoming more active in t he 21st Century — not only is a “public mind” coming alive with integral consciousness and integrity but the Internet is making it very very easy to do secure whistleblowing. The Catholic Church — as with any “institution” that thinks it is above all evolved standards of human decency, has been corrupt since the myths took over. Priests are required to be celibate for one reason and one reason only: to enable the Church to avoid family and survivor benefits. Child molestation and other perversions are an “acceptable” alternative to this corrupt mind-set. The Church has been financially corrupt since time immemorial. We applaud the whistleblowers — they are doing God's work against venal betrayers of the public trust.
DefDog: Mathematics a Propaganda / Crime Tool
Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency
Interesting…..as pointed out in the article, most people defer to the eminence of the individual and not to the substance of the message…..and then there is the criminal obfuscation of Wall Street.
Neal Koblitz: “Mathematics as Propaganda”
This is an excerpt from Volume III of Mathematics: People, Problems, Results that had to be shared.
Johnny Carson was in top form, but the show could have bogged down if his guest had delved into subtleties or overly serious discussion. However, Ehrlich had the perfect solution. He took a piece of posterboard and wrote in large letters for the TV audience:
D = N * I
“In this equation,” he explained, “D stands for damage to the environment, N stands for the number of people, and I stands for the impact of each person on the environment. This equation shows that the more people, the more pollution. We cannot control pollution without controlling the number of people.”
Johnny Carson looked at the equation, scratched his head, made a remark about never having been good at math, and commented that it all looked quite impressive.
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Richard Stallman: “FRAND” is a FRAUD Call for Action in UK on Software Patent Study
Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency
UPDATE: Submission deadline is now June 4th
The UK government is holding a consultation about what sort of patent licenses an “open” standard should require. Anyone that develops free software (free as in freedom, not a matter of price) and would like it to be used in the UK has reason to be concerned with this, along with anyone that uses or distributes free software in the UK.
One option under consideration is to demand the patent holder give everyone a royalty-free patent license for implementing the standard. That at least permits free software to support the standard.
The other option is a criterion called “FRAND”, which claims to mean “Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory”. What it really means is that the patent holder must publish terms and allow anyone to buy a license on those terms. The terms are often such as to exclude free software entirely from implementing the standard.
For instance, these terms can (and in many cases do) require anyone distributing the software to pay a license fee per copy of the program distributed. If you receive a program with a requirement to pay someone if you redistribute it, you do not have freedom #2, so the program is not free software. In effect, these terms discriminate against free software, which is neither fair nor reasonable.
The term “FRAND” is a FRAUD.
