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Mongoose: Peter Mattis on 4 Flawed US Intelligence Assumptions
Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Ineptitude, Office of Management and Budget, Officers Call![Mongoose](http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mongoose-cropped-150x150.jpg)
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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Berto Jongman: War Is New Normal — Stop It!
01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Media, Military, Officers CallWar Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why America’s Wars Persist
How do we inoculate our children against such a permanent state of war and the war state itself? I have one simple suggestion: just stop it. All of it.
by William Astore, CommonDreams
LIST ONLY: 1. The privatization of war; 2. The embrace of the national security state by both major parties; 3. “Support Our Troops” as a substitute for thought; 4. Fighting a redacted war; 5. Threat inflation; 6. Defining the world as a global battlefield; 7. The new “normal” in America is war. Read full article.
SchwartzReport: Treason at the Top — “National Security” Pork Over Education, Infrastructure, Family, and Everything Else
03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, DoD, Government, Military, Officers Call![Stephan A. Schwartz](http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/schwartz-head-144x150.jpg)
We have grossly inadequate funding for schools, infrastructure, elder care, child-care, and a host of other programs and projects that create a more compassionate and life-affirming society. But, boy, the dollars fall like a blizzard on the military industrial security industries. Here is the real truth of where you tax dollars are going. The sums are so large I think they are essentially incomprehensible to ordinary people.
America’s Real National Security Budget — A Trillion Dollars a Year
Berto Jongman: Proven False Flag Attacks (Partial)
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Officers CallStarts in 1931 (Japanese false flag to blame China) and comes up to today (Turkey against Syria, Ukraine against Russia, UK against its own citizens).
Shocking List Of Official Proven False Flag Attacks
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Chuck Spinney: USAF General James Post Says Telling the Truth to Congress About the A-10 is “Treason” — Really…
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Idiocy, Military, Officers Call![Chuck Spinney](http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/editor-spinney-time1-150x150.jpg)
USAF General James Post’s Mexican Hot Platter
There are indications and warnings (I&W) that the U.S. Air Force is headed for the rubber room, at least if the attitude of Major General James Post, the Vice Commander of Air Combat Command is an I&W of the Air Force’s corporate attitude. As I said in an earlier blaster, the AF hates the A-10 for deep-seated cultural reasons and has been trying to trash it since it was the paper A-X in the 1960s. But its recent efforts to kill the A-10 to save the troubled F-35 have degenerated into the bizarro world of cognitive dissonance. For reasons explained below, this development raises medical questions that may open up a new lucrative area for psycho-pathological research. General Post recently told Air Force officers that any A-10 pilot communicating the virtues of the A-10 to a member of Congress is committing “treason,”
Robert Steele: The Armed Unemployed — Lessons Not Learned + Revolution RECAP
05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence![Robert David Steele Vivas](http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Steele-with-Logo-Cropped-150x150.jpg)
The below two headlines should give the 1% great pause.
ISIS: Western Journalist Embedded With Group Says He Came Into Contact With Americans
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