The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Steven Slick is former NSC Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform at the White House (2005-2009).
The Intelligence Studies Essay #1: Steve Slick on Lessons that NCTC Holds for CTIIC
CTIIC: Learning from the Choices and Challenges that Shaped the National Counterterrorism Center
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IBM: Think Big, Harder, Slower
I read “IBM Says Cloud, Mobile, and Data Businesses Will Reach $40 Billion by 2018.” The write up reports that IBM has some “strategic imperative.” I assumed that sustainable revenue growth and healthy profits were important. Well, maybe.
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The US Centers for Disease Control or CDC is hopelessly conflicted in both promoting and approving vaccines. Jon Rappoport explains in some detail.
Measles outbreak: 13 reasons to reject the hype
Hype a war, sell an invasion.
Hype a disease, sell a vaccine.
That’s the business model. Make no mistake about it.
And at the criminal liar’s club called the US Centers for Disease Control, men and women are working that business model every day… Read 13 indictments.
The days when police were seen as good guys seems to have passed, and we are a damaged society as a result.
Woman miscarries after Georgia cop who didn’t ‘appreciate her tone’ tackles and sits on her: lawsuit
Police beating leaves 57-yr-old Gujarat man paralysed in US
All the areas where the Alliance is weak.
Hybrid Tactics: Neither New nor only Russian
CONCLUSION:
The Alliance can take action, primarily, in the military and intelligence fields – through deterrence and, if necessary, direct intervention. But the very nature of the threat requires a wider array of tools: well-trained police forces, functioning border management systems, and effective anti-corruption agencies, as well as transparency in the energy sector and in party political funding. It is here that the Union can make a real difference in contributing to a combined and integrated response.
Provocative.
4 U.S. Intelligence Assumptions That Need to Go
Peter Mattis, The National Interest
The flaws in this intelligence-reform mentality are four-fold—and each plays a role in how proposals like Brennan’s reported reforms are generated and discussed, as well as past reforms such as creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. First, many intelligence-reform proponents conflate the very different disciplines of what we normally think of as intelligence and security intelligence, which includes activities like counterterrorism. Second, the problems with the CIA and the U.S. Intelligence Community are organizational. Third, security stovepipes no longer reflect modern intelligence concerns. Finally, they assume U.S. intelligence agencies are basically the same, making centralization and reducing duplication effective means of improving intelligence performance.
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Here's an interesting US systempunkt — a systempunkt is the point in a big network where even a small attack would cause the entire network to fail. This systempunkt would enable a prepared individual the unique ability to shut down a large part of the US without shedding a drop of blood. For example, this attack has the ability to:
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