The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Why Traditional Print and Database Publishers Are in Even More Trouble Than Thought
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This means that LinkedIn may benefit from “real” newspapers and magazines charging for inclusions. As LinkedIn’s audience grows, it—not the publishers nor the intermediating database folks—will get the big paydays necessary to live high on the hog.
Another report about the failure of the industrial chemical agriculture and husbandry system. This bee crisis is reaching critical proportions with long term implications that are horrific.
FCC Chair Sounds Like He’s Going to Ignore President Obama’s Plan to Save the Internet
Wheeler was described by the Post, which relied on anonymous sources, as “visibly frustrated.” He is said to be going ahead with his own proposal, which would offer companies like Comcast and Verizon the ability to charge a premium for access to Internet “fast lanes.” No matter how he describes it, and he has tried many times to put the shine on this pig, there’s nothing neutral sounding about “fast lane.”
Phi Beta Iota: In the absence of an honest informed Congress, the President is impotent on this one — Internet providers are improperly classified due to past ignorance and corruption within Congress; until their classification changes, their corruption is legalized crime, similar to but must smaller than the legalized crime that characterizes everything about Wall Street. It merits comment that the FCC is not thinking about the need for elevating the entire US infrastructure to the point where it can move Big Data (it takes a petabyte three years to go over an average existing pipe).
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Hold on, Mr. President! FCC rebukes Obama over net neutrality plea
More Small Wars: Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay
Max Boot
Foreign Affairs, November/December 2014
Since Washington doesn’t have the luxury of simply avoiding insurgencies, then, the best strategy would be to fight them better. Drawn from more than a decade of war, here are ten lessons for how to do so, which U.S. policymakers, soldiers, diplomats, and spies should keep in mind as they try to deal with the chaotic conflicts to come.
Continue reading “Eagle: Max Boot on Ten Lessons for Counterinsurgency”
My Masters is focused on Strategic Studies and International Security and my thesis is about the relevance of the black-ops (paramilitary) to the detriment of the conventional military operations in America´s foreign policy. Basically I argue (due to literature that I´ve been revising for more than a year) that it is a fact that since the 1980s the importance of the special forces when it comes to convey important missions has been increased drastically and paramilitary operations are used more and more. I came to the conclusion that operations are carried out nowadays (specially in Syria, Iraq and overall around the Machrek) by the Special Forces units of the USSOCOM but with the support of the CIA (where CIA agents also engage in armed actions).
Dancer,
It is not possible to understand the American way of war or spying without understanding that money is the central factor in deciding what we do and what we buy and what we spend — including lives. Here are three key points:
Continue reading “ANSWERS to Spanish Dancer on CIA and SOF Replacing Conventional Forces”
In this age of the daily indiscretion, a relatively senior naval intelligence officer has been openly relieved of duty. He said, orally and in writing, things that conflicted with Administration's views. Two articles follow:
First from Navy Times, a summary that says he was relieved, that he said things that SECDEF, CNO, and CSA either disagreed with or new nothing about, and that his relief may have been predicated on mishandling classified info and running a negative command climate.
Second article, from Real Clear Defense and written by a contractor, says that he was telling the truth, and used only UNCLASSIFIED open sources.
We can see the power of distributed, crowd-sourced business models every day — witness Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb. But veteran online activist Jeremy Heimans asks: When does that kind of “new power” start to work in politics? His surprising answer: Sooner than you think. It’s a bold argument about the future of politics and power; watch and see if you agree.
“New power is the deployment of mass participation and peer coordination — these are the two key elements — to create change and shift outcomes. And we see new power all around us. … Old power is held like a currency. New power works like a current. Old power is held by a few. New power isn't held by a few, it's made by many. Old power is all about download, and new power uploads. And you see a whole set of characteristics that you can trace, whether it's in media or politics or education.”
