Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Walter: Israel Pushes Palestine Toward DIY Weaponized Rocketry

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Walter
Walter

When Israel blockades Gaza they create an incentive for Hamas aligned groups to develop technologies that shouldn't exist – like DIY weaponized rocketry.

Gaza: How the resistance manufactures its rockets with help from Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah

Leading figures in the Palestinian resistance explained the difference in cost between manufacturing rockets locally and smuggling them from Iran. They said, “Locally made rockets are almost as powerful as smuggled ones, but cost less. The cost of a rocket like the one used to bomb Tel Aviv does not exceed $5,000, while a smuggled rocket may cost up to $15,000.” Regarding short-range rockets, for example, the cost of a smuggled 107-type rocket is around $800, while the same rocket can be made locally for $110.

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Owl: Did Netanyahu Just Threaten Obama with Assassination? We Recollect Rabin in Dallas as a Party to the Assassination of JFK

07 Other Atrocities, Government
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

Netanyahu Implies Threat to Assassinate Obama in Recent Speech?

Given the reference to a “grassy knoll” in a recent speech from Israel PM Netanyahu, as noted below by writer Raimondo, we hope Mr Obam's Secret Secret security arrangements are in much better shape than they were when another head of the Secret Service was in charge up to a few weeks ago:

“The famously combative Israeli Prime Minister went on to say:

“When there are pressures on Israel to concede its security, the easiest thing to do is to concede. You get a round of applause, ceremonies  on grassy knolls, and then come the missiles and the tunnels.”

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Robert Steele: Intelligence 101 – The Series

Advanced Cyber/IO
Robert Steele
Robert Steele

This is the original series created in 2004 for the Military Intelligence Academy in Italy, where Carol Dumaine then on active duty with CIA also offered two excellent lectures rooted in her Global Futures Partnership concept. I sense that the tide is turning — there is now a willingness among some policy makers and select senior professionals to reconsider their premises and their processes. In 1995 Bob Gates spoke immediately after me at a French national conference. After my remarks he strode up to the podium, sniffed, and said “I'm not going to touch that.” Today Bob Gates sounds like me — I find that both troubling and interesting. If ever America needed intelligence with integrity, now is that time.

 

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Berto Jongman: Hungary Internet Tax Cancelled After Mass Protests

Cultural Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests

The draft law – condemned by the EU – would levy a fee on each gigabyte of internet data transferred. The protesters objected to the financial burden but also feared the move would restrict free expression and access to information.

Phi Beta Iota: The industrial-era top-down rule by secrecy system is crashing. Public power in the streets will prevail. The only question is this: will that public be coherent and replete with integrity, or will it be crazed and destructive?

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SchwartzReport: Political Corruption = Child Poverty

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I think this is an excellent essay on the state of voting and voters in the election coming up. I find political ads offensive, ads in general come to that and mute the sound, maybe you do the same. But I have come to realize the truth in John Cassidy's essay. Some very significant fraction of Americans has just tuned out or, perversely, just votes a party ticket without understanding the truth about the candidates or the issues. That is the only explanation I can see for the continuing voting that occurs in Red value states, even though the policies they are voting for are horribly damaging to their lives. This also explains I think how people like Louie Gohmert or Steve King, or Ted Cruz remain in office.

The Empty Elections of 2014

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Jack Davis: Role of the Intelligence Professional — Doctor, Lawyer .. Teacher … Priest?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Ethics, Government
Jack Davis
Jack Davis

Jack Davis, dean of analysts and integrity czar for the CIA, was recognized today with a lifetime achievement award from the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAIE), Dr. Bill Spracher Chapter Chair presiding. After laudatory anecdotes from several senior members, Jack offered a few comments centered around his learning over time that intelligence professionals must not only be doctors to the policy client, but lawyers as well. Implicit in his remarks and his lifetime of service as a trusted briefer was a third role, that of  teacher. During the Q&A he was asked about a fourth role, positing a corrupt government, that of priest.

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