Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Chuck Spinney: US versus Iran on Uranium-Lack of Integrity

05 Iran, 08 Proliferation, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Peace Intelligence
Chuck Spinney

Spinning Iran's centrifuges

By Yousaf Butt, Asia Times, Aug 16, 2011

Yousaf Butt is a nuclear physicist and is currently serving as a scientific consultant to the Federation of American Scientists on global security issues. Previously, he was a fellow on the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the US National Academy of Sciences, and on the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Consider yourself warned – “[I]n the next few years Iran will be in position to detonate a nuclear device,” so writes Ray Takeyh, confidently, in a recent Washington Post OpEd [1]. Why? Because the Iranian government willingly informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it would begin installing additional centrifuges with higher capacity to enrich uranium. [2]

Just like fertilizer can be used to increase crop yields – or make bombs – uranium is a dual use material.

Read full article.

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Search (2): anti corruption photos, anti corruption images

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Search on this web site is like Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) elsewhere.

If you cannot find what you are looking for in the directory (hint, for photos and images isolated to individual posts, use Graphics, for posts with embedded photos or images on corruption do a general search for corruption without other words.

Here are the three major corruption images on this web site, easily found within the Graphic List:

Graphic: Corruption Slide 1 Nine Zones of Concern

Graphic: Corruption Slide 2 Empire as Terrorism

Graphic: Corruption Slide 3 Holistic Analysis

Corruption is not just about dishonor as integrity is not just about honor.  It's all about holistic integrated sources, methods, and outcomes.  If the IC or DoD is deliberately uninformed and deliberately making decisions based on ideological dogma rather than honest decision-support, then they are corrupt, however “honorable” those betraying the public trust may feel they are…corruption is present whenever transparency, truth, and trust are not present.

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Search: reflections, integrity

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Word Press does not do well with broken or complex queries.  Here is what you are looking for, which also can be found in the third column under Popular Journal and also Popular Posts All Time.

Journal: Reflections on Integrity

Integrity is all over this web site and like Steele or Open Source, is not a useful search term for that reasons.  Reflections is a bit more interesting, and Reflexivity (essentially, intelligence with integrity) even more interesting.

Reflections

Reflexivity

 

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Reference: Intelligence Cooperation in Multinational International Peace Operations

Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Communities of Practice, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Key Players, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time, Resilience, Strategy, Threats
Jan-Inge Svensson

ABSTRACT

Intelligence is a tool for power and traditionally very sensitive by nature. Well-established and bureaucratic resistance, international positioning and working methods hamper cooperation concerning intelligence. In a multifunctional and multinational peace operation a lot of informal structures are intertwined with formal structures.

EXTRACT

In order to create a picture of the widest spectrum in a multifunctional mission cooperation is necessary among military, police, Governmental- and International organisations and NGO`s.  Intelligence services need to communicate with each other, and multi-lateral agreements need to be established to governing the collection, analysis and sharing of intelligence.

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DOC Online (5 Pages)

See Also:

2003 PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future

2004 4 Dec Stockholm Peacekeeping Intelligence Trip Report

Books: Intelligence for Peace (PKI Book Two) Finalizing

PKI Book I CH04 Svensson Peacekeeping and Intelligence Experiences from United Nations Protection Force 1995

Worth a Look: First Ever UN Joint Military Analysis Centre Course (October 2009)

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Penguin: Classic Corruption in Zambia in re Mining Taxes

Corruption, Government
Who, Me?

A bit dated but still important.  BBC reports evidently suppressed.

Refusing windfall tax is an injustice – Sardanis

By Joe Kaunda and Chiwoyu Sinyangwe

The Post Online, 12 November 2010

Andrew Sardanis has described the government's refusal to reinstate the windfall tax regime in the mining sector as an injustice to the country.

And economic consultant Bob Sichinga has advised opposition political parties to make the issue of restoring windfall tax a campaign issue in next year's general elections.

In an interview, Sardanis who presided over negotiations during the nationalisation of the mines under the Kenneth Kaunda administration, said he was appalled to learn that government was only getting 2.6 per cent in revenue from the exports of copper that stood at US$2.9 billion despite the huge boom in metal prices.

“…in other words a total tax of only 2.6 per cent of total revenue. When the mines were bought by the current owners, the copper prices stood around US $1,500 per tonne, but the price has shot up to the current over US $8,500,” Sardanis observed.

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Koko: CIA Bows to Islamic Radicals, with Strong Comment on Need for Religious Counterintelligence

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, Blog Wisdom, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Officers Call
Koko

Below is an exact reprint from the Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO).   HOWEVER, AFIO does not endorse the tone of the article, only the fact of its appearance.

The CIA Should be a bit more ‘CAIR'less. This week, a three-day conference hosted by the CIA on “homegrown radicalization” was supposed to have taken place at CIA headquarters. It did not. The conference was abruptly canceled – or, softening the blow, “postponed.” Question: Did pressure from what we might (and should) call a certain “homegrown radical” group – the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) – make this happen?

Here is what we know.

On Monday, July 18, CAIR issued a press release headlined: “CAIR Asks CIA to Drop Islamophobic Trainer.” It revealed that CAIR national executive director Nihad Awad wrote a letter to now-former CIA Director Leon Panetta to that effect. The rest of the release is more opaque. In referencing an NPR report that slammed one counterterrorism trainer by name, former FBI agent John Guandolo, for “allegedly smearing” an “Ohio Muslim” in a presentation, CAIR noted that an entirely different trainer, unnamed, was “scheduled to hold a similar session in August for the CIA.” (Full disclosure: Guandolo and I are among 19 co-authors of Shariah: the Threat to America.) The August CIA “session” appears to be the driver of both the CAIR release and letter asking the CIA, as the headline put it, to “Drop Islamophobic Trainer.”

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