
Beating big money in politics just went from “possible” to “definitely happening.” Our fight to end corruption made history on Tuesday when citizens of Tallahassee, Florida put the Represent.Us strategy to the test and won big.

Anonymous to RT: ‘Internet has power to bring down regimes’

Jack Davis, dean of analysts and integrity czar for the CIA, was recognized today with a lifetime achievement award from the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAIE), Dr. Bill Spracher Chapter Chair presiding. After laudatory anecdotes from several senior members, Jack offered a few comments centered around his learning over time that intelligence professionals must not only be doctors to the policy client, but lawyers as well. Implicit in his remarks and his lifetime of service as a trusted briefer was a third role, that of teacher. During the Q&A he was asked about a fourth role, positing a corrupt government, that of priest.
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The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust
By Robert David Steele (2012)
Notes by Fiona Bywaters of the World Futures Council
DOC (4 Pages): Notes on the OSE Manifesto (Fiona Bywaters)
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The following is an edited version of the address given in the NSA Auditorium in November as the feature of Security Week 1973.
PDF (4 Pages): Colby on Secrecy at NSA in 1973
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“We are all also aware of Gresham's law in economics, which says that bad money drives out good. If we overclassify, we develop in people's minds a contempt for the classification rules, for if some items that really are not secret at all are classified, it means the whole system is nonsense.”

Journalist Reveals Iraqis Used German Mustard Gas on Iranians Under US Watch in 1988
MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) – A prominent German journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, has revealed that Iraqis, guided by the United States, used German mustard gas against Iranian soldiers in 1988.
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The mustard gas was brought to Iraq from Germany labeled as “pesticides,” Ulfkotte explained in the e-mail. “The US gave the satellite photos of the Iranian positions and supervised the action and the Iraqis did it – and I photographed it and was not allowed to publish it,” the journalist said.

Four of the intruders scaled the iron fence surrounding Obama’s mansion while one, a toddler, actually squeezed in between the bars of the fence.
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