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2012/03/082012/03/08

Betty Boop: Stratfor as a Neo-Con / Mossad Scam

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Responding to Richard Wright: USMC “Learns” From StratFor – Integrity? – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Integrity

Back in 2002 while I was at a major Command, Friedman made a pitch to provide “ground truth” intelligence on contract. While some folks went gaga over his presentation, there were many small indicators that all was not well. Apparently Friedman was asked to leave LSU for reasons undetermined. Offically, according to STRATFOR ” In 1997, a small company that would eventually grow into Stratfor—called Strategic Intelligence LLC—left Baton Rouge and LSU, where its founder George Friedman had been a professor. A 1999 profile in Texas Monthly said the company “couldn't thrive” in Baton Rouge, and that's why Friedman took it to Austin, where it blossomed into a global powerhouse.”

Reasoning heard on the street by colleagues active in San Antonio, he was bankrolled by Mossad and they wanted him in an area of hightech.

I have read his comments about OSS and you specifically; his arrogance is unbelievable. His “analysts” are currently UT-Austin students with a couple of “seasoned veterans”, none of whom have an intelligence
background.

He has been described as a neocon and I think that fits. From where I sit, I think STRATFOR is finished, they are trying very hard to regain their client base….with little success…

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2012/03/082012/03/08

NIGHTWATCH: Syria Ground Truth Tars West

08 Wild Cards, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Government, IO Impotency, Media, Peace Intelligence

Syria- Arab Red Crescent: Over the past few days, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has distributed aid provided by the ICRC to the Bab Amr district of Homs, to Hama, Idlib, Deraa, rural Damascus and the eastern city of Raqqa, a spokesman said. “The situation as we see it today is that unrest is still taking place mainly in Hama, Deraa, Rural Damascus, Homs and Idlib,” Hassan said.

Opposition spokespeople said fighting was continuing in Homs, but a Red Crescent spokesman said that it was not. The Red Crescent teams found that the population had evacuated the Baba Amr district of Homs and the rest of the city was quiet.

Comment: The arrival of Red Crescent teams has provided some much needed ground truth reporting. The fighting in Homs has been concentrated in the Baba Amr district, which the government seized, but the residents apparently had already left along with the fighters. It remains difficult to develop a relatively unbiased view of the struggle. The Red Crescent statements suggest actual confrontations are occuring in neighborhoods of five towns and cities. That is far more limited than international media suggest.

Syria-UK: British Prime Minister David Cameron told a hearing at the House of Commons Liaison Committee on 6 March that his government provided cash and equipment to foreign-backed rebels in Syria under such names as “aid agencies” operating on the ground to help deliver food and emergency medical supplies, Press TV reported.

Comment: Cameron's admission in conjunction with the capture of the 13 French officers tends to confirm the Syrian government's consistent contention that the opposition is made up of outside troublemakers. The Syrian situation in no way resembles Libya and accurate information is just not available, except one fact. There are no significant and sustained operations in Damascus. Until they occur, the regime will survive.

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2012/03/082012/03/08

DefDog: Know Your Enemy – What USG Cannot Learn…

IO Impotency

Below, written by a great mind in Europe and published at the link below, answers the question of why we know so very little about our “enemy”, whomever it may be……

What They Don't Teach You in “Thinking Like the Enemy” Classes

…these classes are NOT teaching you how the enemy really thinks. They can't. And they're doing more harm than good.

WHAT THEY ARE NOT TEACHING YOU

1. The enemy is not homogenous.

2. The enemy will invest much more resources in staging an attack than you think is worth it.

3. The enemy can and will readily exploit the one thing in our society that we think has made us so advanced and civilized: trust.

4. The enemy is very capable of planning and interweaving multiple attacks across multiple channels to get to their target.

5. The enemy probably doesn't have everything you have but that doesn't mean that if we don't have it they don't either.

6. The enemy will take advantage of your superego.

Read full article (lengthy comment on each of the above).

2012/03/072012/03/09

Penguin: Top LulzSec hacker an FBI informant

IO Impotency

Top LulzSec hacker was FBI informant

Leader of Anonymous-linked group helped investigators to identify fellow hackers, as five others charged in New York.

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Phi Beta Iota: The “estimates” of damages continue to be grotesquely inflated. The various governments continue to focus on enforcing archaic laws rather than demanding the upgrade of archaic systems. This is like prosecuting people for jaywalking when the sidewalks consist of eggshells.

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2012/03/062012/03/07

DefDog: Jim Clapper On Way Out? + RECAP

Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, IO Impotency, Officers Call, Policies

Surprise, surprise…..such a disaster it could be a blessing in disguise…his replacement? General Flynn, the individual who said intel
in Afghanistan was a failure…..and it is.

DNI Jim Clapper Out in Fall? Rumor Mill Says Maybe

Colin Clark

WASHINGTON: Jim Clapper, the first Director of National Intelligence to order budget cuts across the intelligence community, may be leaving his post this fall.

Or, then again, he may not. At this stage, all is rumor. So far, we've got three people with good intelligence connections saying Clapper is likely on the way out. We've got one former senior intelligence saying it is not likely.

But as so often with the intelligence community, rumors possess value because they indicate perception as much as fact. There may be senior Obama administration officials who would like to see Clapper gone. He is a career military man heading a “civilian” intelligence community and there's another such fish over at CIA named Petraeus. And we all know how they treated retired Adm. Dennis Blair.

Also, two of the sources for the rumor may have a strong institutional interest in Clapper's departure. But we can't say more for fear of blowing their cover.

A source with excellent intelligence community access had a specific piece of information. “Clapper was told he is no longer valued….back in October. General Cartwright was offered the job but declined,” this source said in an email.

A former senior Pentagon intelligence official told us that Clapper has said “how much he values working for this President and this administration” and tells him that the administration has demonstrated “their respect for and understanding of the business of intelligence. I¹d be quite surprised to see Jim step down if either a re-elected Obama or newly elected successor asked him to stay on.”

This source also made a key point. The DNI job carries so few benefits and so many responsibilities and is so disliked or distrusted by so many in the intelligence community that, “few qualified people” would “even remotely yearn for the DNI position.” Given all that, this source said, “I think we should all hope that Jim hangs in there.”

Will he? Let us know what you're hearing. — // —

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2012/03/052012/03/05

David Swanson: Murder of US Citizens and Others Legal — Dissection of Eric Holder Speech

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement

Murder Is Legal, Says Eric Holder

By David Swanson

Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday explained why it's legal to murder people — not to execute prisoners convicted of capital crimes, not to shoot someone in self-defense, not to fight on a battlefield in a war that is somehow legalized, but to target and kill an individual sitting on his sofa, with no charges, no arrest, no trial, no approval from a court, no approval from a legislature, no approval from we the people, and in fact no sharing of information with any institutions that are not the president. Holder's speech approached his topic in a round about manner:

“Since this country’s earliest days, the American people have risen to this challenge – and all that it demands. But, as we have seen – and as President John F. Kennedy may have described best – ‘In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.'”

Holder quotes that and then immediately rejects it, claiming that our generation too should act as if it is in such a moment, even if it isn't, a moment that Holder's position suggests may last forever:

“Half a century has passed since those words were spoken, but our nation today confronts grave national security threats that demand our constant attention and steadfast commitment. It is clear that, once again, we have reached an ‘hour of danger.'

“We are a nation at war. And, in this war, we face a nimble and determined enemy that cannot be underestimated.”

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2012/03/052012/03/05

DefDog: NASA lost ‘full control’ to hackers, pwned 13 times last year

Government, Hacking, IO Impotency

NASA lost ‘full control' to hackers, pwned 13 times last year

Houston still has a problem with security

By John Leyden

The Register, 5 March 2012

Cybercrooks broke into NASA's computer systems 13 times last year gaining “full functional control” of important systems in the worse cases, according to the testimony before the US Congress by the space agency's inspector general.

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