Marcus Aurelius: Sgt Bergdahl a Deserter Aiding Taliban?

Ethics, Military
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Invite your attention to message below.  Then, invite your attention to what's at the link contained within the message:

1. Bergdahl father tweet, apparently now removed.

2. Below tweet, message from a Dan Witmer, who asserts to have been colleague Bowe Bergdahl and further asserts SGT Bowe departed camp with knife, compass, and water, found gaps in defenses, and defected to Taliban.

Beard = Fuck Obama Fuck USA
Beard = Fuck Obama Fuck USA

Still further and most disturbing, he additionally additionally asserts that (a) USG has long known of other assertions and that the units incurred deaths trying to find SGT Bowe.  I don't know if all this is true or not, but I think it makes wonderful grist for counterintelligence and criminal investigators who should routinely debrief SGT Bowe during the standard “POW reintegration” process.  I also think the assertions are sufficiently specific that a skilled polygrapher could construct a valid “specific issue” polygraph test (as opposed to the fishing expedition screening exams most frequently constructed).

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Jean Lievens: Bank of England Governor – Capitalism Doomed Without Ethics

Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Resilience, True Cost
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Bank of England governor: capitalism doomed if ethics vanish

Mark Carney issues strong critique of City behaviour and warns of growing sense that basic social contract is breaking down

Angela Monaghan

The Guardian,

Capitalism is at risk of destroying itself unless bankers realise they have an obligation to create a fairer society, the Bank of England governor has warned.

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Hal Berghel: Comments on Intelligence Leadership, Moral Hazards, Manning, Snowden, & Wikileaks

Commerce, Ethics, Government, IO Impotency
Hal Berghel
Hal Berghel

Leadership Failures in the National Security Complex

Current NSA forecast: continued Snowden flurries with no end in sight. No one blames the hardworking NSA employees for the latest series of gaffes: it’s the feckless leadership and the politics that got them there that are responsible for our current difficulties

PDF (4 Pages): Hal on Leadership 6-14

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Marcus Aurelius: CSA General Shinseki End of Tour Memorandum

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

GEN(R) Shinseki is catching flak, perhaps justified, perhaps not, for the deepening VA scandal.  Invite your attention to attached as an indicator of what the man is capable of.  Only issue I ever had with him was the black beret for everyone matter.

EXTRACT:

I think it ¡s important to point out that the Vision statement begins and ends talking about people. People are central to everything we do ¡n The Army. Institutions don't transform; people do'. Platforms and organizations don't defend the nation; people do. And finally, units don't train; they don't stay ready; they don't grow and develop leadership; they don't s'acrifice and they don't take risks on behalf of the Nation; people do. Without people in the equation, readiness and transformation are little more than academic exercises.

PDF (12 Pasges): (U) GEN Shinseki 34th CSA End of Tour Memo to SECDEF 10Jun03

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Jim Dean: Asian Boomerang — China Calls for Security Alliance with Iran and Russia — Changes Dynamics for Afghanistan, Middle East, North Africa

02 China, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, Ethics, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
Jim W. Dean
Jim W. Dean

China Calls for Security Alliance with Iran, Russia

Editor's Note: Well, it looks like Obama the Peacemaker image took another hit today. China, which has no overseas military bases and no carrier battle groups sailing the seas to defend its customers, considers itself a target and not a threat. Imagine that!

The US “divide and conquer” ploy with the Asia Pivot is turning into Obama's Asia Boomerang. The land of freedom and democracy has turned into the major stimulus on the planet for forming defensive military alliances.

It seems they don't want to buy one of our “Sanctions-R-US” franchises. The Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves.

Maybe it's all a trick. Maybe “they” want to divert China and Russia's capital investment away from peaceful business endeavors and whiz it out the window, following the example of the $2 trillion we blew on the military industrial complex over the last decade with no credible threats on the planet.

Good gosh, what group in America would want to do that when our bridges are falling down and the highway trust fund is almost empty… the list goes on and on. Take a look at the companies that the Bush (43) thugs are all involved with, before and after. They seem to have done well.

Don't be surprised to hear brain dead Congressional candidates screaming about how we must rearm American to protect ourselves from the yellow horde building unsinkable inner tubes to float millions of Chinese secret DNA commandos across the Pacific to invade America. 

The think tanks are sharpening their pens and swords to scare Americans into putting what money they have left into their various coffers by going on their Asian Jihad. Americans need to form a security alliance of their own here at home to defend ourselves against “you know who”… Jim W. Dean ]

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SchwartzReport: Insurance Companies Begin Acknowledging Climate Change, Break with Energy Industry Denials of Climate Change

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

If you have been reading SR for some time you know I predicted this in the late 90s. Eventually a wide range of industries are going to be opposed to the carbon energy interests. This is an important trend, and one to watch closely.

Rift Widening Between Energy And Insurance Industries Over Climate Change
KEN SILVERSTEIN – Forbes

Being a big business, the insurance industry is a strong backer of free enterprise and its laissez-faire leaders. But a rift could be developing now that some major carriers are staking claims in the climate change cause while many of their congressional backers have remained skeptical of the science.

For insurers, it’s not about the political machinations but rather, it’s about the potential economic losses. If even part of the predictions hold – the ones released by the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change that ascribe temperature change to humans with 95 percent certainty – then the rate of extreme weather events will only increase and the effects would be more severe. That, in turn, would lead to greater damages and more payouts.

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