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Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump

Bush was just an appetizer — Trump would be the main course

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 1 March 2016

Rove correctly guessed that a generation of watching TV and Hollywood movies left huge blocs of Americans convinced that people who read books, looked at paintings and cared about spelling were either serial killers or scheming to steal bearer bonds from the Nakatomi building. (Even knowing what a bearer bond is was villainous). The hero in American culture, meanwhile, was always a moron with a big gun who learned everything he needed to know from cowboy movies.

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2016/03/052016/03/05

Marcus Aurelius: OSINT Battle Rythm — the Best the US Army Can Do…. Plus DefDog Comment

IO Impotency

Surfing the web with reservists….as published in Military Intelligence, July-September 2015.

PDF (4 Pages): (U)_OSINT_Battle_Rhythm_(MIPB_Jul-Sep_15)

Since the end of the Cold War, and especially over the last 10 to 12 years with the reduction of military and civilian staffs at combatant commands and national agencies, more and more “real-world” intelligence production at operational and strategic levels is being assigned to RC intelligence units. This strategic intelligence production is vital for Army components at combatant commands to accomplish the Army's mission of “winning in a complex world.”

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2016/03/052016/03/05

CounterPunch: Fukushima

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation

Fukushima – Deep Trouble

Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, 22 February 2016

Imagine the following scenario: 207 million cardboard book boxes, end-to-end, circumnavigating Earth, like railroad tracks, going all the way around the planet. That’s a lot of book boxes. Now, fill the boxes with radioactive waste. Forthwith, that’s the amount of radioactive waste stored unsheltered in one-tonne black bags throughout Fukushima Prefecture, amounting to 9,000,000 cubic metres. But wait, there’s more to come, another 13,000,000 cubic metres of radioactive soil is yet to be collected. (Source: Voice of America News, Problems Keep Piling Up in Fukushima, Feb. 17, 2016).

2016/03/042016/03/02

George Por: The Knowledge Ecology

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

The Knowledge Ecology

The theory of “knowledge ecology” supercedes old ideas of management and business.

What a company knows is a strategic asset. However, it also can be a liability if it is not fostered by its leadership and members. We’re living in a time when knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom have become the most powerful engines to generate social and economic value. Therefore, the vibrancy of a corporation’s knowledge ecosystem is a more reliable indicator of its future performance than the extent of its financial might.

PDF (4 Pages): The_Knowledge_Ecology

2016/03/042016/03/02

John Prados: Now Revealed, Dick Cheney Covered up CIA Assassination Findings of the Rockefeller Commission in 1975

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice

Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975; Removed Section on CIA Assassination Plots — White House Aide Dick Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report to Dampen Impact — New Documents Cast Further Doubt on Commission’s Investigation, Independence

The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney. Today’s posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheney’s handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public.

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2016/03/042016/03/02

Mongoose: Catholic Church Payments Plan for Pedophile Priest Transgressions — Sodomy $50,000 to $75,000

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice

2 bishops hid sex abuse of hundreds of children, Pennsylvania grand jury says

In a practice seen in other dioceses, the bishop created a “payout chart” to help guide how much victims would receive from the church, the report said. Victims fondled over their clothes were to be paid $10,000 to $25,000; fondled under their clothes or subjected to masturbation, $15,000 to $40,000; subjected to forced oral sex, $25,000 to $75,000; subjected to forced sodomy or intercourse, $50,000 to $175,000.

2016/03/032016/03/05

Donald Trump Take-Down — John Oliver Followed by Mike Lofgren — PBI Observes in Favor of Trump

Cultural Intelligence

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

H.L. Mencken

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