Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Berto Jongman: Death of BBC, Questionable Capacity of CIA’s OSE

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military
Berto Jongman

BBC at risk of death — CIA's OSE allegedly covers 75% of world to BBC's 25%.

Open Source Stupidity: The Threat to the BBC Monitoring Service

In addition to further severe budget cuts, BBC Monitoring is currently facing the loss of its Caversham Park headquarters (formerly owned by the Government) and many of its specialists who have no wish to relocate.  . . .   We therefore conclude that the Government must reinstate funding of the service in order to protect its skilled staff and specialist infrastructure. If the BBC is not willing to co-operate, then the Government should recognise the folly of the 2010 decision; take back ownership of Caversham Park; restore the modest central funding required and reconstitute the Monitoring Service as a state-owned Open Source Information Agency, in order to guarantee its future, once and for all.

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Kevin Barrett: NATO Gladio False Flag Campaign Includes Berlin, Russian Ambassador Assassination, NATO Auditor “Suicide,” More to Come….

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Officers Call
Kevin Barrett

Zio-Gladio strikes Europe! Berlin suspect, NATO auditor shot dead

Truck attack solved via yet another “magic ID card”

Exactly one week before today’s police execution of the “Berlin truck terrorist,” NATO’s chief auditor, Yves Chandelon, was found dead in Andenne, Belgium with a bullet in his head. Official story: Suicide due to financial problems.   . . .  Meanwhile in Ankara, mainstream reports claim that the cop who assassinated Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov last week had served on Erdogan’s security detail. This detail, and its highlighting by the Western mainstream press, adds to the case that the assassination was an Operation Gladio job designed to punish Erdogan for cozying up to Russia and accepting a Syrian peace road map with no NATO involvement. High-level Turks and Russians have been pushing this thesis.

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Chuck Spinney: Jonathan Cook on Clinton’s Hypocrisy, Fake News, and US Intelligence Perfidy in False Claims About Russia “Hacking” the Election

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Media
Chuck Spinney

The below essay by Jonathan Cook is a show stopper.  Cook, a British writer, is an independent reporter based in Nazareth, Israel.  Cook has proven himself to be one of  the most insightful western observers now reporting on Israel, the Palestinian conflict, and the Middle East in general. In the classic Beyond Culture, the great cultural anthropologist Edward T. Hall observed that often the most insightful analyses of a cultural phenomenon are written by people who are from a different culture and are outsiders looking in.  Cook, who is a educated outsider when it comes to U.S. culture, demonstrates in again the power of E.T. Hall’s insight, only this time, in the attached essay, he is dissecting smarmy hi jinks surrounding the U.S. presidential election.

Clinton’s defeat and the ‘fake news’ conspiracy

There is an astounding double standard being applied to the US presidential election result.

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Kevin Barrett: NYT on Syria — All the Fake News Fit to Print — NYT Deceives, Lies, & Offers No Value to the Public

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Media
Kevin Barrett

New York Times on “Aleppo’s Destroyers”: All the fake news that’s fit to print

The New York Times has been leading the charge against “fake news.” Yet its own reporting and editorial positions are often as one-sided, distorted, or downright mendacious as the worst of the pseudo-alternative websites. The Times’ coverage of wars, especially those of strategic import for the US and/or Israel (not necessarily in that order) is  a particularly fertile field of fake news flummery.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Electricity from Touch,

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger

This would be much better than an electro chemical battery … as long as the phones we power with it don't microwave us to death…

Scientists have developed a material that generates electricity simply by touching it

…beyond just touchscreen gadgets, the researchers say the thin, flexible device could also be used in our clothing or shoes, helping us harvest energy from our body movements potentially all day long.

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Steven Aftergood: CRS on Defense R&D

03 Economy, DoD, Military, Research resources
Steven Aftergood

Nearly half of all federal research and development dollars go to the Department of Defense, a new report from the Congressional Research Service observes. The Pentagon research budget is more than twice that of the next largest recipient, the Department of Health and Human Services.
The structure of the DoD research budget, which has “its own unique taxonomy,” is described in the new CRS report. See Department of Defense Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E): Appropriations Structure, December 13, 2016:

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