Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Owl: Was Chattanooga a Large False Flag Stymied by Unwitting Shooters?

07 Other Atrocities
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

Was Chattanooga a Large False Flag Stymied by Unwitting Shooters?

According to Navy sources in contact with blogger Allen West, Lt. Cmdr Timothy White, a Naval officer who exchanged gun fire with a shooter who killed five service members in Chattanooga, Tenn., will be charged by the Navy for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property, though a more recent story indicates the Navy denies he will be charged.

News sources give the impression that US Marines were shot and killed at a mall recruiting station, but the actual fire fight took place across town seven miles away at the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center, and supposedly within “minutes” after the recruiting station shooting. The shooter must have had an incredibly fast car that, as one writer pointed out, which “can overcome traffic lights, speed limits, and the physical laws of science.”

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Stephen E. Arnold: MBA’s Do Not Use Intelligence

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Surprise! MBAs Do Not Make Use of Competitive Intelligence

I read “Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence but Don’t Use It.” The author, Ben Gilad, is a level headed person. His view is:

the competitive perspective is almost always the least important aspect in managerial decision-making. Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus. This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers.

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Reflections on Cyber-Corruption

All Reflections & Story Boards, IO Impotency
Robert David STEELE Vivas
Robert David STEELE Vivas

It breaks my heart to watch all things cyber continue along very corrupt paths associated with a melange of linear thinking, bureaucratic inertia, truly evil covert operations that undermine cyber-security, and of course the persistent lack of accountability.

Winn Schwartau
Winn Schwartau

It was my great privilege to be among the first to sound the alarm on cyber-security, joining with Winn Schwartau in sponsoring the Information Warfare Conference. Although I left that endeavor to focus on Open Source Solutions, Winn and I continue to marvel at how little everyone has learned.

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Worth a Look: Democracy in the Dark The Seduction of Government Secrecy

Worth A Look
Amazon Page
Amazon Page

Too Many Secrets: What Washington Should Stop Hiding (Review by Ron Wyden and John Dickas in Foreign Affairs)

From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the U.S. Church Committee on Intelligence uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: how much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz's Unchecked and Unbalanced, co-written with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch—a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Farm-Based Medical Practice

07 Health
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Let food be thy medicine – are doctors finally getting it?

Weiss has officially started the state of New Jersey’s first farm-based medical practice 55 miles away from his New York office, where owns a 348-acre, 18th century-style farm in Long Valley.

“Plant-based whole foods are the most powerful disease-modifying tools available to practitioners — more powerful than any drugs or surgeries.” he told NJ.com.

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Antechinus: Human Terrain, My Ass …

Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military, Officers Call
Antechinus
Antechinus

The US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) and the Quest to Commandeer Culture

A flurry of policy pieces written over the last several weeks have called for a new improved version of HTS, reflecting a deep longing by military-linked strategists to reboot the program. American military and intelligence agencies have a long history of seeking the sort of cultural knowledge that HTS’s architects sought to weaponize in Afghanistan and Iraq. These agencies have largely failed to harness social science for military purposes, but they stubbornly persist. Given this background — and ongoing efforts to subjugate and control foreign populations to fulfil the requirements of automated, mechanized killing via drones, algorithms, and predictive modeling programs — we should understand HTS’s termination as an exercise in retiring one brand and replacing it with newly packaged operations that are well underway. The gaps in military knowledge that HTS claimed to fill still remain. The desire to weaponize culture is as old as dreams of counterinsurgency, and such dreams do not die easily.

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