Richard Wright: More on CIA’s Continuing Implosion

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Richard Wright

26 November 2011

Robert,

Not surprisingly your feelings about CIA [Robert Steele: Iran Arrests Twelve CIA Agents] have been echoed by Bob Baer whose principal area of operations was the Levant. As in this ABC interview: Former CIA Agent: U.S. Has Lost Its Spy Mojo  [includes short video]

“But former senior CIA officer Robert Baer told ABC News this week that the loss of assets was more than a mere setback, and not an isolated incident but part of a disturbing pattern.

“When you lose your entire station, either in Tehran or Beirut, that's a catastrophe,” said Bob Baer, a legendary CIA agent whose Middle East exploits were fictionalized in the George Clooney film “Syriana.” Baer said the disaster was due in part to a new generation of agents that has forgotten, or never learned, the traditional methods of intelligence gathering.

  “They don't understand tradecraft,” Baer said. “And we have lost our touch in espionage.”” (Emphasis mine)

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Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Joel Hirschhorn

Alpha E-H, Public Intelligence
Joel Hirschhorn

Now a writer, consultant and public speaker who focuses on politics and government, he was formerly a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a senior staffer for the U.S. Congress (Office of Technology Assessment), head of an environmental consulting company, and Director of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources at the National Governors Association.  His latest book is Delusional Democracy – Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government, an original analysis of the decline of American democracy coupled with a set of practical solutions for fixing it.  His previous book was Sprawl Kills – How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health and Money, a holistic evaluation of suburban sprawl, sprawl politics, and the housing and community alternatives to sprawl.  He is a co-founder of Friends of the Article V Convention, its National Press Secretary, and writes regularly for many websites, often advocating the nation’s first Article V convention as the more practical route to restoring American democracy than regular elections controlled by the two-party plutocracy.  He can be reached through www.delusionaldemocracy.com.

NYC: Day After Thanksgiving, Military with Machine Gun Outside of Bakery/Pastry Shop

Civil Society, Ethics, Military, Uncategorized

NYC Port Authority Terminal, November 25, 2011
Jason Liszkiewicz

Returning from a bus trip, I walked passed a man with a machine gun outside of a “bakery” (pastry-type cafe). I walked up to him and asked why was he outside of a bakery with a machine gun. His only reply was “9/11.”

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The Department of Defense spent and spends how many Billion$ (and Rumsfeld admitting he could not account for $2.3TRILLION on September 10, 2001) that did not prevent the September 11 attacks and this man with a machine gun is outside of a pastry shop telling me it's because of 9/11.

Is insane the “new normal?”

Many weeks ago I was given a flyer at Liberty Plaza by someone from the War Resisters League that had many links about war tax boycotting:
+ Wartaxboycott.org
+ 3o minute documentary “Death & Taxes”
+ National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
+ Peacetaxfund.org
+ IAVA.org
+ girightshotline.org (877) 447-4487 for military who refuse to fight

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|Also on the flyer:
+ Defundwar.org
+ Newprioritiesnetwork.org
+ mfso.org (true cost of war)
+ Bringourwardollarshome.org
+ wwfor.org
+ Peaceeconomyproject.org
+ 25percentsolution.com
+ Smartsecuritypa.org
+ 25teachersalaries.org
+ Ourfunds.org
+ Demilitarize.org

Also See: NYC People's Life Fund who redirects donations from war tax resisters into “life-giving activities.”

Event: 27 Nov – 15 Jan Unlocking the Pyramid Code – Ancient Egypt as a Model for Empowerment

03 Economy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

Unlocking the Pyramid Code: Ancient Egypt as a Model for EmpowermentUnlocking the Pyramid Code: Ancient Egypt as a Model for Empowerment

Host: Dr Carmen Boulter

An in-depth exploration of the masterful abilities of the ancient Egyptians that can be activated within you, and the technology for free energy we are on the verge of rediscovering.

6 Sessions: Starts November 27 through January 15th

Featuring:  Robert Bauval, Laird Scranton, Walter Cruttenden, John Anthony West, Christopher Dunn, William Henry

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Howard Rheingold: From ME Consumer to WE Community – The Collaborative Consumption Revolution

Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Methods & Process, Movies, Policies, Reform
Howard Rheingold

Lauren Anderson: the “We” of the our collaborative age will replace the “Me” of the industrial age

“Is this shift from the Me to the We as significant as the industrial revolution? And should we welcome this revolution with, so to speak, open arms?”

Lauren Anderson is the Innovation Director for Collaborative Lab, interviewed here by Andrew Keen:

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As originally posted by Michel Bauwens.

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