Ineptitude – Page 45 – Public Intelligence Blog

Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman for the past 15 years have been notable for the accuracy and insight of the comments they make about our economy. When you think about Representative Paul Ryan on the right, and Stiglitz and Krugman on the social progressive side you realize that there is no real comparison to be made. Rightwing economic theory is nonsense and, wherever it is in force failure and crisis follow. Here is Stiglitz' latest.

Why Stupid Politics Is the Cause of Our Economic Problems

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2015/02/012015/02/01

Chuck Spinney: The Arrogance of US Ignorance

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military

The excellent BBC documentary Bitter Lake is on youtube in two parts and can be found at these links:

Part 1:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9wCkTgcZ7M
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9wCkTgcZ7M

It is well worth watching … stylistically I found its format somewhat distracting to my tastes and would have liked it more organized chronologically. But that is a nit pick. CS

Guardian Review by Emma Graham-Harrison below the line.

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2015/01/282015/01/28

Michael Flynn: Obama Delusional, CIA Unprofessional [PBI: and USDI a Waste]

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

Former Defense Intel Chief Blasts Obama

Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the Obama administration’s approach to the War on Terror in a hard-hitting speech to a meeting of intelligence professionals. “The dangers to the U.S. do not arise from the arrogance of American power, but from unpreparedness or an excessive unwillingness to fight when fighting is necessary,” Flynn said, in an unsparing critique first reported by the Daily Beast.

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2015/01/222015/01/22

Berto Jongman: Mike Vickers 6 Threats 6 Changes — Robert Steele: Idiocy & Betrayal of the Public Trust

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military

6 Threats, 6 Changes, & A Brave New World: Intel Chief Vickers

WASHINGTON: There’s no one thing that keeps the Pentagon’s chief of intelligence up at night. There’s half-a-dozen things — terrorism, cybersecurity, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China — but Mike Vickers has a six-point plan to counter them.

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2014/12/31

Doug Bandow: Foreign Aid Does Not Work Because Government is Ignorant

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence

Foreign aid does not work. In the end, government doesn't know what it's doing.

Foreign Aid Is a Failure

Throwing good money at bad governments makes poor countries worse off.

Veronique de Rugy from the January 2015 issue of Reason.com

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2014/12/212014/12/21

Pierre Cloutier: Inside ISIS – What CIA Does Not Know and the West Refuses to Understand + Legitimate Grievances

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call

Et tu, Brute?

Inside Isis: The first Western journalist ever given access to the ‘Islamic State' has just returned – and this is what he discovered

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2014/12/20

SchwartzReport: Will Marijuana Challenge Destroy the GOP and the Supreme Court in One Go?

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement

It is driving the rightist prohibitionists crazy that none of the dire predictions they made about ending Marijuana prohibition have come to pass. In fact the outcomes have been the exact opposite to what they said would happen. So now they are trying to get the conservative majority on the Supreme Court to reverse what the people themselves voted for. It is not clear how this will play out but it has the potential to create a massive crisis of governance.

GOP attorneys general ask Supreme Court to strike down legal marijuana in Colorado

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