Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Journal: US Government Deliberately Infected Guatemalans With Sexual Diseases Including Syphillis

07 Other Atrocities

UPDATE 03:  Miami Herald Superior Reporting (Guatemala may petition international court on this matter).

UPDATE 02:  Guatemalan president ‘very angry' at US tests (BBC short video).  Note reference to this probably happening in other countries.  We sense a need for–and recommend–a global investigation.

UPDATE 01:  Horrific medical tests of past raise concerns for today (Commentary from Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania)

US Government Officials Happily Apologizing

U.S. Government Apologizes for 1940s STD Testing on Guatemalans

The U.S. government apologized Friday for a secret program conducted more than 40 years ago in which prisoners and mental hospital patients in Guatemala were intentionally infected with gonorrhea, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.

The “unethical” and “reprehensible” program was discovered after a professor documented how U.S. scientists intentionally infected people in the Central American country with sexually transmitted diseases.

Susan Reverby, a women's studies professor at Wellesley College, published a paper detailing the joint research program between the U.S. and Guatemalan governments. From 1946-1948, doctors enabled men in prison to be infected with syphilis or gonorrhea by allowing prostitutes carrying the disease to visit them. From there, they studied inoculation techniques. The tests, which also involved mental hospital patients, involved about 1,500 subjects, according to the study.

Read the rest of the story….

See Also:

Briefing on the U.S. Public Health Service STD Inoculation Study of 1946-1948 Via Teleconference

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Journal: Underpants Bomber Saved Worthless NCTC

09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Government, Intelligence (government), Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda
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3 Ways the Underwear Bomber Changed Counterterrorism

December 25, 2009 was a pivotal day for U.S. counterterrorism. Although the airline bombing failed, the reverberations from the attempt are still being felt. Here’s how this incident changed U.S. counterterrorism policy, as told by Mike Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

Popular Mechanics By Joe Pappalardo   September 16, 2010 2:30 PM

Deaf Leading the Blind

1) The incident saved the  Counterterrorism Center's budget.

2) New teams were formed to  chase leads, not write reports.

3) The failed  attack focused the Obama administration on  counterterrorism.

Phi Beta Iota: Click on the photo for the full story at Popular Mechanics.  Above we just list the three “ways,” each of them a perfect outcome for a fraudulent staged “threat” that was almost certainly concocted with Israeli help.  Until the guy video-taping the whole thing from in front is produced, our professional judgment is that the Underpants Bomber was an agent of the US Government doing precisely what this worthless activity wanted: give it a reason, however absurd, to keep on being worthless.   [Covert Operations against a US audience are illegal, but who cares about the Constitution or laws, these days?] NCTC's leader, a decent well-intentioned politically-appointed lawyer who knows nothing relevant, is the poster child for what is wrong with the entire US national security domain.

See Also:

Journal: Underpants Bomber Shines Light on Naked USG–Without Four Reforms, USA Locked in Place

Journal: National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Goes from Dumb to Dumber

Journal: The Plot Thickens–Who Benefits?

Journal: Who Over-Rode State to Allow Xmas Bomber?

Journal: Who, Exactly, is Behind Burning Koran?

Journal: Director of National Intelligence Alleges….

Journal: CIA Leads the “Walking Dead” in USA

Journal: CIA’s Poor Tradecraft AND Poor Management

Review: Willful Neglect–The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security

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Contributing Editor: Defense Dog (DefDog)

Authors & Editors
DefDog

Defense Dog (DefDog) is under very deep cover, and to all outward appearances is the perfect Pentagon Staff Officer–creased uniform changed daily, shaves twice a day if necessary, and always has a piece of candy for the boss.  We regret we cannot tell you more about this stalwart defense of freedom and the American Way of War.

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Journal: It’s Official–Social Media EDUCATES

04 Education

Social Media, a Brilliant Teacher, the Power of Embracing the Future

EXTRACT:  Mashable has a insightful post about how some teachers are incorporating social media into their classrooms and are seeing dramatic increases in student interest and achievement as a result. …. reading things like this excites me because shows me that we are winning some battles in the war against “overinvesting in yesterday” and its now defunct institutions.

The Case For Social Media in Schools

EXTRACT: A year after seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%, and chronic absenteeism was reduced by more than a third. For the first time in its history, the school met its adequate yearly progress goal for absenteeism.

Tip of the Hat to  Steve Denning at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: The current school system is like the Pentagon without the money–mostly dead weight.  The future is about blended or hybrid education–of everyone, all the time.  This is one reason why we feel rather strongly that education, intelligence, and research should be overseen and funded by the same executive team.

See Also:

Child-Driven Education (Sugata Mitra at TED)

Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Robert Young Pelton

Alpha M-P, Peace Intelligence
Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton is one of just two speakers demanded by the international audience attending the annual conference on National Security & National Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions.  The other was Stephen E. Arnold.  RYP is the single most sensible, qualified, courageous, and plain honest journalist we know, across the creative and investigative spectrum.

DuckDuckGo on RYP
Gone Fishing.....

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Search: robert young pleton (sic) pelton

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Journal: Henry Seigman on Israel’s Freeze Scam

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Government, Peace Intelligence
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Netanyahu's Freeze Scam

by Henry Siegman 30 Sep 2010

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at the formal White House launching of the resumed Middle East peace talks on September 2 were the clearest indication yet of his lack of seriousness. But neither the host, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, nor any of the distinguished guests seemed aware of it. Indeed, they applauded his remarks. What they applauded was Netanyahu's dramatic declaration, as he faced Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, that the success of the resumed negotiations will depend on his own and Abbas' readiness to make “painful concessions” for the sake of peace.

If these words have any significance, they must mean that Netanyahu is prepared to make Israeli concessions that match Palestinian concessions: i.e., if Palestinians concede to Israel part of their territory east of the 1967 border, Israel would concede to the Palestinians comparable territory on its side of that border.

But everyone present at this festive White House event knew this to be completely untrue. Netanyahu has never offered to concede even one inch of Israeli territory to the Palestinians — not even from Palestinian territories Israel acquired in 1948 during its War of Independence, which the 1947 UN Partition Plan had assigned to Palestine's Arab population. In fact, no one has ever asked Israel to make any concession to the Palestinians — whether territory, water resources, Jerusalem or sovereignty. In respect to these and the other permanent-status issues, the concessions have all been demanded of the Palestinians. None were asked of Israel. So Netanyahu's offer of parallel Israeli concessions is a lie. Unless, of course, Netanyahu meant to apply the term “painful concessions” to his willingness to return to Palestinians a part of their own territory, all of which — up to the 1967 border — is universally recognized as being under Israeli occupation, and therefore subject to the Fourth Geneva Convention's strictures that absolutely forbid the transfer of the occupying power's population to those territories. If that is what he meant, what Netanyahu was telling Abbas is that Israel expects to be rewarded for returning some of the territory it unlawfully confiscated from the Palestinians by having Palestinians concede their right to the balance of that territory.

By getting the distinguished guests at this event to applaud this offer, Netanyahu can fairly be said to have done for international peace diplomacy what Bernard Madoff did for financial markets.

Read full article online…

Phi Beta Iota: Mr. Siegman is the Ambassador to Israel designate in the Huffington Post Virtual Cabinet.  Here he presents FACTS that neither the White House nor the Department of State nor the US Intelligence Community appear capable of acknowledging.  The US is an enabler of the atrocities perpetuated by Israel against the Palestinians.

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Reference: 27 Sep MajGen Robert Scales, USA (Ret), PhD

DoD, White Papers

Event Report (3 Pages)

The Next Generation of Small Unit Warfare [NOTES]
A Lunch Discussion with Major General (ret.) Robert H. Scales, PhD

Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm

The Brookings Institution, Stein Room, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC

The 21st Century American military it has found itself fighting two extended land wars, neither against a nation state or conventional armed forces.  Our forces have responded to with changes in doctrine, and the introduction of new technologies to the integration of new human resources in the form of contractors, translators, and human terrain experts.  But where will we go from here?  In his recent work, Scales has focused on how changes in selection, training, and organization might make future small units not only more powerful, but also the backbone of our operations.

Major General (ret.) Robert H. Scales is an authority on both land warfare and leadership development. Prior to his current position, as President of Colgen, LP, he served for over thirty years in the Army, in command and staff positions in the United States, Germany, and Korea.  Scales ended his military career as the Commandant of the United States Army War College.  In 1995 he created the Army After Next program which was the Army’s first attempt to build a strategic gaming and operational concept for future land warfare.  He has written three works:  Future Warfare, Yellow Smoke: the Future of Land Warfare for America’s Military, and The Iraq War: A Military History.  He is a graduate of West Point and holds a PhD in History from Duke University.

See Also: Review: Firepower In Limited War

Inspired by Attending this Briefing:

Journal: Reflections on Integrity

Dr. Peter W. Singer, Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at Brookings, will introduce and moderate the discussion.

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