Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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National Security Decision-Making in the USG

10 Security, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Military, Threats
Marcus Aurelius Recommends

DoD major commands have serious staffs that try to do the right thing.  The same cannot be said for White House staffers or the intelligence community staffs promoted to their maximum level of incompetence.  Reading between the lines of the below article, it's possible to see a national security decision-making process that is to close to “ready fire aim.”

Washington Post, June 5, 2011, Pg. 17

Rewriting Rumsfeld's Rules, By David Ignatius

Phi Beta Iota: David Ignatius is clearly among the lead writers striving to give Dr. Robert Gates a “legacy” (mythical as it might be).  Missing from his various odes are the fact that decisions are not being made on the basis of facts or with the public interest firmly in mind.

 

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Afghanistan Ground Truth: Deja Vu & Nested RECAP

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence
Chuck Spinney Recommends...

The Lost Villages

Saying goodbye to a once-friendly land, now taken without a fight by the Taliban.

ANNA BADKHEN, Foreign Policy, 03/06/11

BALKH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The villages fell without a battle.

Read full article….

See Also:

Open Source Insights Into the Taliban

New Army Chief of Staff: Out of Touch? NEW: Blistering Bullshit Flag Waved from Afghanistan

US Intelligence Lies to “Defer” to General Petraeus

Continue reading “Afghanistan Ground Truth: Deja Vu & Nested RECAP”

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Sarah Palin’s Version of Paul Revere’s Ride

Cultural Intelligence
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Paul Revere's Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin

By Tim Murphy Fri Jun. 3, Mother Jones

Here‘s how she described Paul Revere's famous ride:

“…he who warned the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringin' those bells and, um, makin' sure as he's ridin' his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we're gonna be secure and we were gonna be free. And we we're gonna be armed.”

See Also:

Sarah Palin on Paul Revere: Expert or Ignoramus?

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Snapshot: Tea Party Headlines

Cultural Intelligence
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Needed: A Tea Party for smart people

Protest Movement Starts ‘Rebranding’ Billionaire Koch Brothers

Wall Street Journal Honcho Shills for Secret Worker ‘Education' Program Linked to Koch Group

Jim Hightower column: Academic freedom for sale, cheap, too

Letter: Billionaires duped patriotic Americans

Koch brothers wage a war on Americans

Koch Bros. Accused of Stonewalling Congress on Their Keystone XL Pipeline Interest

Phi Beta Iota: The ignorance of the public–Democrat, Republican, and Independent, is profound.  Most Tea Party members really have no idea that there are two Tea Parties, and the one that has influence is not the one they belong to.  Most citizens have no clue that to harvest oil from sands you have to use water from aquifers–water we cannot afford to waste.  Needed desperately is public intelligence in the public interest.

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Interviews: Bill Black & Yves Smith Our Financial Fraud Crisis

Audio, Corruption, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth

Audio of Bill Black featured on “Le Show” with Harry Shearer

“Bill Black fraud” at DuckDuckGo

Bill Black is an expert on white-collar crime.

Audio of Yves Smith featured on “Le Show” with Harry Shearer

Yves Smith's (author of ECONned) Naked Capitalism

Review (Guest): ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

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Financial Rape of Libya — Assassination vs Invasion

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence

Gaddafi's Stolen Billions: Max Keiser Explains ‘Financial Terrorism' RT  –  18 hours ago Watch video

Phi Beta Iota: China and Russia both appear to have explained to Goldman Sachs executives that they will be assassinated if they do not make good on their financial rapes against those two countries.  Libya appears to have adopted the same response.  Tony Blair appears to have been the key political proponent of the financial rape of Libya.  Russian Television offers a useful glimpse into the reality behind the “get Guaddafi” invasion now occurring at our expense–an invasion that is illegal by both US Constitutional law and international law.  Meanwhile, Wall Street seeks to force a rise is the US debt limit.  Assassination of bankers is now on the table.

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Mother Jones: Employment Picture Sucks

03 Economy
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Employment Picture Even Grimmer Than You Think

— By Kevin Drum

| Fri Jun. 3, 2011 8:49 AM PDT

Every month Steve Benen publishes a handy chart showing job gains and losses since January 2008. Looking at the latest dismal numbers for May, he concludes, “Any sane person should look at these numbers and conclude that the economy desperately needs a boost.”

But it's worse than that. As I mentioned yesterday, the U.S. economy needs to add about 150,000 jobs per month just to stay even with population growth. This means that you really need to look at how many jobs we gained above (or below) 150,000, not above or below zero. So here's Steve's chart, modified to show just that. As you can see, the last eight months, when the economy has supposedly been starting to recover, has actually been virtually flat. Relative to population growth, we've been generating no new jobs at all.

So yes: “Any sane person should look at these numbers and conclude that the economy desperately needs a boost.” Even the not especially sane ought to have figured that out by now.

Tip of the Hat to Mother Jones at Twitter.

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