Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1962 – Public Intelligence Blog

This appears spot-on. I've had some one-on-one experience with OSD CAPE and they appear to be true non-patriots whose sole function is to cut dollars. They don't seem to have a clue as to what the business of defending America is all about. They particularly oppose the concept of redundancy. In our huge bay, we have a cartoon posted about egg-head researchers at a blackboard whose task is to provide a scientific justification for a pre-determined solution: transfer dollars from the Army to the Air Force and Navy. That pretty well summarizes OSD CAPE and where things are heading these days. Big picture:

1. Pivot to Pacific is impacted by sequestration.

2. Congress thinks sequestration is effective tool to cut government spending and may well extend it.

3. Army is sucking wind for money, cyber geeks are a growth industry.

4. Navy and Air Force want to leave Army as only Service furloughing people.

James Jay Carafano: Chuck Hagel begins knifing the Pentagon

EXTRACT:

CAPE is a number-cruncher. CAPE doesn't do strategy. Hagel can count on CAPE to put a happy face on sequester-size defense budgets.

Even more worrisome was Hagel's announcement that CAPE's assessment would provide the foundation for the Quadrennial Defense Review. The QDR is supposed to be a long-term assessment of missions, capabilities, threats and resource requirements — not a rubber stamp for budget cutting.

Read full article.

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2013/05/04

Berto Jongman: “Deathbed” Testimony” about UFOs and Area 51 from former CIA Officer + UFO Meta-RECAP

Extraterrestial Intelligence

The actual identify of the alleged former CIA official has not been validated.

ANONYMOUS from Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell on Vimeo.

‘Deathbed testimony’ about UFOs given by former CIA official (VIDEO)

Video testimony by an anonymous alleged former CIA official was shown at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Friday, May 3.

Video Page (17:08)

UFO author and historian Richard Dolan interviewed “Anonymous” on March 5, 2013. Facing impending kidney failure, this individual felt compelled to disclose secret information he feels is too important to keep secret. In the video, he claims to have served in the U.S. Army, worked for the CIA, and worked on the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book–one of the USAF’s official studies of UFOs. And he refers to the project as “partially a fraud.” Asking for clarification, Dolan states, “You’re saying some of the Blue Book cases were completely fictitious?” The anonymous man responds, “Yes.”

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2013/05/042013/05/04

Chuck Spinney & Philip Giraldi: CIA Drones for Corrupt Regimes

Corruption, Drones & UAVs, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military

Note that in addition to propping up Quisling centers at expense of the tribal periphery, we will be fanning the fires of the sectarian warfare and killing gobs of innocents with more signature strikes (note dependency on “technical collection”).

Drones for “Regime Protection”

The CIA’s insurance plan for Karzai and Maliki—and what it means for Syria

By PHILIP GIRALDI, American Conservative, May 1, 2013

Media reports of CIA preparations to use drones to target al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria, should the post-Assad situation warrant such an intervention, are only party correct. The plan to use drones under certain circumstances is in reality part of the much larger CIA program in Iraq that parallels the program being set up in Afghanistan. CIA initiatives in both countries are related to what is being mandated by the National Security Council as a policy of “regime survival” to help keep in place governments that are at least nominally friendly to Washington and that will be dependent on American technology and intelligence resources for the foreseeable future to maintain their own security. The CIA will bear the brunt of the two operations, as it can do so without a highly visible military footprint. In Iraq it includes, among other elements, the continued training of something akin to an elite counter-terrorism Praetorian Guard to protect senior officials while also advancing efforts against a growing Salafist presence in the country, linked to resurgent Sunni terrorism that is attempting to weaken the government of Nouri al-Maliki. The Obama administration is hoping to develop a level of cooperation with the Iraqi government that will enable the identification of extremist elements, some of which are taking the opportunity to transit into Syria. They are a threat to what are perceived to be the long-term interests of America and Iraq’s Shia government. Those who are identified as al-Qaeda-linked militants could become drone targets in Syria, if the situation in that country deteriorates.

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2013/05/042013/05/04

Eagle: YouTube (9:01) Battle of the Judges in Maryland – Allegations Against Judge Mickey Norman Praise for Judge Alan Wilner

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Maryland appears to be the poster child for national collusion between corrupt judges, corrupt attorneys, and mortgage bank fraud.

Phi Beta Iota: This has hurt national security professionals, especially those working for the National Security Agency — all available evidence points to Maryland banks seeing NSA employees as valuable “prey” because once “hooked” they would not fight back for fear of tarnishing their own financial credit in the face of financial crime by the banks. Now those crimes are being consistently upheld by corrupt judges — Judge Mickey Norman in particular — despite explicit legislation in favor of the homeowners. Below is the single best video, with documentation shown on line, that explains the high crimes and misdemeanors. We hope the International COnsortium of Invetigative Journalists (ICIJ) does begin its nation-wide investigation in Maryland — they could usefully start with demanding the identification of all cases in which a Maryland judge has violated the law by overturning homeowner motions — they will find a huge cluster associated with “Judge” Mickey Norman.

Eagle: M&T Bank Owns Maryland, Judge Mikey Norman & Twice-Censured Foreclosure Mill Attorney Thomas P. Dore?

Eagle: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists May Look at Corrupt Judges in Foreclosure Cases, Beginning in Maryland

Eagle: Banks & Foreclosures As Financial Terrorism – Enabled by Out of Control Corrupt Judges

2013/05/04

SchwartzReports: No One Trusts the Federal Governments or Corporations — and Growing Public Movement to Divest from Fossil Fuels and Refuse GMOs

Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement

More on the the growing Great Schism Trend. Much of this shift in attitude results from the growing disaffection people feel about the Federal government. There is a price to no one ever being held accountable for the financial meltdown, or the constant reminders of the government's corruption, coupled with the increasing awareness of the government's intrusion into ordinary people's lives.!

Beliefs About Sandy Hook Cover-up, Coming Revolution Underlie Divide on Gun Control
DAN CASSINO and KRISTA JENKINS – Fairleigh Dickinson University

If this had appeared in a lesser publication, or been written by a less accomplished investigative reporter, I would have dismissed it as conspiracy nonsense. But I spent time this afternoon backchecking. It all holds up. Once again all of this arises because of the corruption of the regulatory mechanisms set up to protect the integrity of the financial system.

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
MATT TAIBBI – Rolling Stone

Here is some good news. People are beginning to awaken to the research about GMOs.

Pressure Mounts to Remove GMOs From Infant Formula
Common Dreams/The Cornucopia Institute

Here is some good news, about a shift going on in the environmental movement. It offers some hope.

The Giants of the Green World That Profit From the Planet's Destruction
NAOMI KLEIN – The Guardian (U.K.)

2013/05/042013/05/04

NIGHTWATCH & Et Al: Syria Round-Up

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Peace Intelligence

January - July Wind Direction - Click on Image to Enlarge — January – July Wind Direction – Click on Image to Enlarge

NIGHTWATCH

Israel-Syria-Hezbollah: US news media citing unidentified US officials reported that the Israeli Air Force executed a ground attack at a weapons warehouse in Syria. Israeli officials declined to comment but Lebanese press reported low flying Israeli combat aircraft flew over Nabatiye Governate in south Lebanon on Friday morning.

Comment: The description of the attack resembles the Israeli air operation in January which prevented Syria from providing advanced weapons to Hezbollah. The timing, days after Hezbollah announced it was fighting in support of the Syrian government, suggests the action was related to that announcement.

What was missing from the Hezbollah announcement this week is what price Hezbollah required from Syria for its overt support. Supplies of modern weapons or delivery systems from Syria might have been an incentive for an open statement of support.

What is certain is that Israel would act promptly to try to prevent any strengthening of Hezbollah by Syria, but has shown no interest in siding with the belligerents in Syria.

Others

Israel Launches Airstrike Into Syria, U.S. Officials Say

United States believes Israel conducted airstrike in Syria, CNN reports

Israel bombs missile shipment in Syria – reports

2013/05/032013/05/03

John Maguire: YouTube (9:23) Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Cultural Intelligence

Jerry Mander, author of “In the Absence of the Sacred” and “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”, describes the drawbacks of television. An excerpt from the extended interviews of What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire. A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.

Most thinking people already realize the basic truth TV = Bad. However, Mander spells it in a way that will likely reinvigorate your ire for the way we are perpetually kept dumbed down, addicted, and isolated from both ourselves and others/nature.