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A NEW INTELLIGENCE ORG ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS NEEDED, DSB SAYS

The U.S. intelligence community needs an organization that can assess the impacts of climate change on U.S. national security interests in an open and collaborative manner, according to a new report from the Defense Science Board (DSB).

The Director of National Intelligence should establish a new intelligence group “to concentrate on the effects of climate change on political and economic developments and their implications for U.S. national security,” said the DSB report on “Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security” (large pdf).

The Central Intelligence Agency already has a Center on Climate Change and National Security. So why would the Intelligence Community need an entirely new organization to address the exact same set of issues?

Continue reading “Steven Aftergood: Defense Science Board Slams CIA…”

2011/11/14

Chuck Spinney: Koch Brothers & Grand Theft Media

Commerce, Corruption, Media

Below is an informative historical vignette describing one of the 19th Century root systems underpinning the ideology that shaped the emergence of winner take all political economy over the last 30 years. Note particularly the central role of private debt played in the rise of oligarchy and the concomitant impoverishment of the masses.

Koch Family Empire Building

By Yasha Levine, The Texas Observer, 12 November 11

Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist and a founding editor of The eXiled Online. He lives in Venice, California.

The Koch brothers have bankrolled a broad attack on progressive government programs. Their grandfather's history in Texas helps explain why.

Read full investigative article.

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Marcus Aurelius: NYC Police State Blows Up Muslims

Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius

Angry over spying, Muslims say: ‘Don't call NYPD'

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and CHRIS HAWLEY, Associated Press 16 mins ago

NEW YORK – Fed up with a decade of police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.

Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, encouraging them to always talk to a lawyer before speaking with the authorities and reminding people already working with law enforcement that they have the right to change their minds. Some members of the community have planned a demonstration for next week.

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota: We have been saying for some time that the US Government no longer represents We the People. In NYC under Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a privatized CIA has flourished, and NYC is now a police state in every sense of the word. When the law becomes unjust, unethical, and plain nuts, it is no longer legitimate.

2011/11/14

DefDog: Congress Exempt from Law on Insider Trading

Corruption, Government

Congress is sooooooo dirty.

Congress: Trading stock on inside information?

Watch the Segment »

Steve Kroft reports that members of Congress can legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill.

Read the transcript (five screens)

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Marcus Aurelius: CIA Flogs on Campus + RECAP

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Officers Call

CIA runs all-source analytic competition for universities — neither the Open Source Center nor Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are anywhere to be found.

Deja vu?

Covert Operation

WC Wins High Honors at CIA Tri-State Intelligence Simulation

Phi Beta Iota: This was probably a variation of the superb Mid-Career Course (CIA's mini-war college) analytic exercise but lacking the meat that is to be found in the Mid-Career Course: the opportunity to learn that walking around and talking to PEOPLE is what fills in the gaps and leads to a more complete view. Also lacking here, as it is in the Mid-Career Course, is any tutorial on analytic tradecraft, or any reference to external legal ethical human, online, and analog sources that generally have the 80% or more of the knowledge that CIA is simply not able to access because of its secrecy blinders.

Deja vu, indeed.

2011/11/122011/11/12

Mini-Me: Japan’s Lies to the World on Fukushima

05 Energy, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Articles & Chapters, Corruption, Government, Misinformation & Propaganda

New international report shreds Japan’s carefully constructed Fukushima scenario

John C. Daly

Arab News. com, 13 November 2011

EXTRACT

Needless to say, in the aftermath of the disaster, both TEPCO and the Japanese government were at pains to minimize the disaster’s consequences, hardly surprising given the country’s densely populated regions.

But now, an independent study has effectively demolished TEPCO and the Japanese government’s carefully constructed minimalist scenario. Mainichi news agency reported that France’s l’Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, or IRSN) has issued a recent report stating that the amount of radioactive cesium-137 that entered the Pacific after 11 March was probably nearly 30 times the amount stated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. in May.

Read full story.

Phi Beta Iota: Governments lie. Corporations lie. Non-Governmental organizations lie. They all lack integrity, and in lacking integrity, they are a cancer within the human body.

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