The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Drinking Water Runs Low [in West/Southwest] as Dry Conditions Drag On
MARK PETERS – The Wall Street Journal
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MARTHA ROSENBERG – AlterNet (U.S.)
New Long Distance Quantum Teleportation System ‘Extremely Reliable’
The Raw Story
As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
By Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone: June 6, 2013
EXTRACT
You get the press and the rest of America following that bouncing ball, and the game's over. Almost no matter what the outcome of the trial is, if you can convince the American people that this case is about mental state of a single troubled kid from Crescent, Oklahoma, then the propaganda war has been won already.
Because in reality, this case does not have anything to do with who Bradley Manning is, or even, really, what his motives were. This case is entirely about the “classified” materials Manning had access to, and whether or not they contained widespread evidence of war crimes.
This whole thing, this trial, it all comes down to one simple equation. If you can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the punishing is itself criminal.
Useful distraction from the real fires in DoD.
Obama defends secret NSA surveillance programs – as it happened
Spy chief strongly defends surveillance, calls it legal
Timeline of revelations about US domestic spying
US intelligence boss calls for criminal investigation over surveillance program leaks
White House Says Congress Was Briefed 13 Times on Surveillance Programs
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Nobody does this. It is precisely what the Director of OMB should be demanding, and it is precisely what the Open Source Agency (OSA) would do if the corrupt powers that be were not so set against anything that provides the truth on every threat, every policy, every demographic, in a coherent holistic manner with true cost economics embedded and ethical evidence-based decision-support as the outcome.
Beyond Whole of Government lies the Smart Nation concept that harnesses the distributed intelligence of all eight tribes (academic, civil society including labor and religion, commerce, government at all levels, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit), and beyond that — and probably coming first — lies Open Source Everything (OSE) as the technical solution, and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) as the human solution.
Here are a few of the seminal references on Whole of Government Intelligence:
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N2-04, “NATO Open Source Intelligence Course” (NS) (This is a two week course from Aug 2013)
Aim: To educate NATO and national intelligence analysts about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations, techniques, requirements and procedures
Academic Course Guide 2013-03-27 [all courses, titles and short descriptions only]
One Page Course Description (repeated below)
N2-04 NATO Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Course
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Recovery? No. Continued looting by the 1%? Yes.
American Households On Foodstamps Climb To New Record
Yesterday, briefly, we were confused by the eruption in the stock market following a not too bad sub-200K nonfarm payrolls number. Because we know that in the New Normal bad is always good, no matter what the well-coifed TV pundit du jour tells you. Then we remembered that yesterday is when the USDA releases its monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program data, i.e. Americans on Foodstamps.
It was here that the ramp was perfectly explained, because while the bad (for stocks of course) data was that individual foodstamps recipients rose by 170K in March – if just a whisker below all time highs – it was the number of American households on foodstamps, which rose to a new all time high of 23,116,441 (each collecting an average of $274.30 per month) that perfectly explained the Dow Jones' 200 point surge higher: the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-classes to the 1% continues without a hiccup.
Continue reading “Josh Kilbourn: US Households on Foodstamps Hit 22 Million”
Syria Regime Change – Blowback on Steroids
Jim Dean with Franklin Lamb
Veterans Today, 7 June 2013
Franklin Lamb has the best piece below that I have seen on the Jewish/Israeli Lobby panic at the disaster which their anticipated slowly roasting regime change for Syria has been. But Frank either skipped or ran out of room to credit what the real panic is about.
Israel’s nuclear bunker buster attack (with a mini-nuke warhead) has turned out to be a shot yourself in the head moment to the Radical Zios.
It opened the door wide open for the Russians to return to the Med and mover an air defense into Syria which will eliminate Israel’s long history of wiping their feet on their neighbor’s air space.
