Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Winslow Wheeler: Military Spending versus Competence

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Blog Wisdom, Budgets & Funding, Corporations, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, DoD, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests
Winslow Wheeler

Washington Post Joins Hysterical Defense Budget Rhetoric

Center for Defense Information, 7 November 2011

Monday, November 7, the Washington Post editorial board published its take on the extreme rhetoric the country has been hearing on the defense budget since Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta starting talking about the “doomsday mechanism” that would reduce defense spending.  Quoting the newer extreme rhetoric of several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff defending their budget ambitions to the eager-to-listen House Armed services Committee, the Washington Post positioned itself foursquare in favor of hysterics.  It was with an editorial titled “Defense on the Rocks: Mandated spending cuts could decimate U.S. military might.”  Find it here  (although at the web link they toned down the title with the more sympathetic “US Defense on the defensive.”)
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DefDog: CIA Decides Who to Blow Up – Without Having Any Idea Who They Are…

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, Articles & Chapters, Corruption, IO Deeds of War, Military
DefDog

Admission of the failure of Intelligence, and yet nobody is asking why?

Does the CIA Even Know Who Its Drones Are Killing?

During the Bush era, the agency helped imprison scores of innocents. In the Obama era, it decides who to blow up.

Conor Friedersdorf

The Atlantic, 7 November 2011

Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once said that the War on Terror detainees who made it to the prison at Guantanamo Bay were “the worst of the worst.” At the time, many Americans believed him. Hadn't the detainees been captured by the military or the CIA, or evaluated by experienced American interrogators before being transferred there? We now know that many of the 779 detainees who wound up at Gitmo were innocent.

“Of the 212 Afghans at the base, almost half were, in the assessments of the US forces, either entirely innocent, mere Taliban conscripts, or had been transferred to Guantánamo with no reason for doing so on file,” The Guardian reported earlier this year. Said the Telegraph, “Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West — while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose.”

President Obama doesn't send suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay. Instead, he kills them with drones.

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Koko: Bernie Sanders on Time to Change Fed

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Hill Letters & Testimony, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy
Koko

Worth a close reading.  The revealed conflicts of interest and probably high crimes and misdemeanors and nothing less than expected, but astonishing all the same.

The Veil of Secrecy at the Fed Has Been Lifted, Now It's Time for Change

By Sen. Bernie Sanders

Huffington Post, November 4, 2011

As a result of the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street, the American people have experienced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Millions of Americans, through no fault of their own, have lost their jobs, homes, life savings, and ability to send their kids to college. Small businesses have been unable to get the credit they need to expand their businesses, and credit is still extremely tight. Wages as a share of national income are now at the lowest level since the Great Depression, and the number of Americans living in poverty is at an all-time high.

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Videos on Election Fraud/Theft

Corporations, Corruption, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Technologies, Videos/Movies/Documentaries

+ Stealing America: Vote by Vote

+ American Blackout: documentary of Greg Palast's investigation into voter fraud

+ UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections

+ Hacking Democracy: The HBO Special

+ Election theft video archive from Votescam.org

Note: Diebold – “Diebold Election Systems” acquired by “Premiere Election Solutions” then acquired by “ES&S” which was acquired by “Dominion” in 2010 (wikipedia).

Also see:
+ BlackBoxVoting.org
+ Votersunite.org
+ VerifiedVoting.org
+ Election Defense Alliance
+ Citizens for Legitimate Gov

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Event: 8-10 June NYC Strategies for a New Economy

03 Economy, Academia, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics
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Upcoming Event:

June 8-10, 2012
Conference:  Strategies for a New Economy
Bard College, on the Hudson River, New York
Registration open in January of 2012
Themes for Conference Tracks
Each Track will have seven associated workshops
1.  Modeling the New Economy: Shared Prosperity within Planetary Limits
2.  Measuring Well Being: Alternative Indicators of Wealth and Progress
3.  Banking and Financing a New Economy: Scale, Criteria, Innovation
4.  Re-building Local Economies:  Engines for Resilience
5.  Re-imagining Ownership: Coops, Stakeholders, Corporate Structure
6. Transforming Money: Structuring, Issuing, and Valuing New Mediums of Exchange
7.  Sharing the Commons: Identifying, Allocating, and Restoring
8.  Messaging a New Economy: Education, Media, Public Campaigns
9.  Forging Justice for All: Economic Security, Equity, and Jobs in the New Economy
10. Empowered Youth: Mandating a New Economy
11. Responsive Government for a New Economy: Politics as if People and Planet Mattered
 12. Moving Beyond Consumerism: Plenitude, Sufficiency, and Mindful Consumption
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