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Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years”

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Iran, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Military, Officers Call

Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years”

Synopsis: 10 days after 9-11, visiting Joint Staff, not only knew we were going to take down Iraq, a few weeks later but got the list of six other countries:

Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran

Watch the short video…

Phi Beta Iota: This is somewhat consistent with the published book Endgame–The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror by Thomas McInerney and Paul Vallely with an introduction by Oliver North. Published in 2004, they focused on the need to use our military to wipe out Syria and Iran while intimidating Libya and Pakistan. What is quite clear is that regardless of which political party is nominally in power, the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) has taken on a life of its own that is expensive, dangerous to all, clearly at odds with the US Constitution, and totally out of control. For a third of what we spend on war we could be waging peace and providing all 44 dictators with non-violent exit strategies. The gap between the public and the government has never been greater in the modern history of the USA, in our collective view.

2011/03/25

SCADA Vulnerabilities–Known Problem Since 1990

IO Impotency

SCADA Graphics — Click on Image to Enlarge

Attack Code for SCADA Vulnerabilities Released Online

By Kim Zetter

March 22, 2011 |

WIRED Magazine

Phi Beta Iota: Nice piece. Winn Schwartau has been warning on this since 1990, Robert Steele organized the letter to Marty Harris in 1994. So what have we got in 2011, just over twenty years later? Cyber-Command blowing $12 billion on cyber-offense while neglecting cyber-defense as well as the basics–the national non-military infrastructure upon which everything else depends. The irresponsibility of government is quite frightening.

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Reddit Focus on Darknet, Mesh, Cyber-Freedom

Autonomous Internet

reddit best — DuckDuckGo Web Stack on Reddit

This reddit is dedicated to organizing and creating a decentralized VPN as the first stage of the darknet plan.

There have been some projects started up that may interest you.

Reddit I2P .. Beginning a Map .. Tor Project

Be sure to check these things out, and if you can code please consider making some tools that will help fight back against censorship of the internet.

DarkNet Plan List of Popular Entries….

Tip of the Hat to Eugen Leiti at Distributed Internet Google Group.

2011/03/25

TED video on language tracking using home surveillance & social media surveillance

Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Government, Technologies

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/1092

Fascinating video but one has to wonder if this research is used in other research projects pertaining to advertising and military interests. According to Pierre Sprey “MIT is a terrible place to be from if you're gonna tell the truth about defense..they get more defense money than anyone.” (Source: Pentagon Labyrinth C-SPAN video).

And David Spielberg got ideas for his futuristic advertising used in the movie Minority Report from persons from MIT.

2011/03/25

USG Breathtakingly Irresponsible on Banks

Corruption

The Baseline Scenario

Dividend Lost

by Simon Johnson

Four types of people were directly affected by the Federal Reserve’s decision at the end of last week to allow major banks to increase their dividends and to buy back shares. Three of these groups – bankers, bank shareholders, and government officials – were somewhere between happy and delighted. The four group, US taxpayers, should be much more worried (see also this cautionary letter to the Financial Times by top finance academics).

The bankers’ reaction is obvious. They are officially released from the financial hospital ward that was set up for them in 2008. No matter that this was a very comfortable place with few conditions relative to any other bailout in recent US or world history – there were still restrictions on what banks could do and, naturally, bank executives chafed at these constraints.

In particular, banks were required to build up the equity in their business – insolvency is avoided, after all, while there is positive equity in a business. When shareholder equity is exhausted, creditors face losses. Read more….

Phi Beta Iota: The disingeneous will observe the Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve, and they are correct. However, the complicity of the USG going back to Bill Clinton is breathtakingly irresponsible. Merely airing the truth and assuring public outrage would be salutory.

2011/03/25

Earthquake Seismic Monitor Map

03 Environmental Degradation, info-graphics/data-visualization

http://www.iris.edu/dms/seismon.htm

2011/03/25

Tom Christie on Failure of Acquisition Reform

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military

face thomas christie — Thomas P. Christie

Tom Christie spent almost 50 years inside the DOD acquisition apparatus, concluding his career as a top level civilian professional directing DOD's office of Operational Test and Evaluation. Since the 1960s, he has seen every single stab at reforming how we develop and buy weapons come and go – and fail. Today, as measured by GAO and many others, cost overruns are higher, deliveries are later, and the biggest DOD budget since the end of World War II buys us the smallest, oldest force structure and weapons inventory since 1946.

Christie has a straight forward explanation: the buying apparatus in the Pentagon, Congress and industry does not enforce the declared intent of acquisition laws and regulations, they circumvent the intent – thanks to the multiple loopholes and dodges assiduously inserted by Congress, the Pentagon and industry. Politely, he calls this a lack of “discipline.”

Listen to his interview and explanation at Federal News Radio.

This interview is part of a series; find a link to these and several other related interviews at one of the webpages devoted to the anthology, The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It.

Interested in more details of Christie's explanation? Find the text of his essay in The Pentagon Labyrinth at , and find the entire text of The Pentagon Labyrinth.

Want to make a comment about Christie's or any other author's essay? Want to hold a debate? We welcome that. Let me know by emailing winslowwheeler at msn.com.

Phi Beta Iota: Integrity is a self-healing system. No one dealing with acquisition has it. This has gotten so out of hand it is now an atrocity.