The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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The core point made by Davies with his J-Curve is that people do not revolt when they are oppressed beyond belief; they revolt when they see the light at the end of the tunnel and then are pushed back. The Internet and cell phones have shone a light on the world like no other. Between RapidSMS, flash mobs, Twitter real-time intelligence, and all else, the revolution has begun.
Incompetence, Corruption or Both
How the Defense Industry is Hosing Obama and the Taxpayer … Again
By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY
Counterpunch
Monastir, Tunisa
On 3 March 2010, CounterPunch carried my critique of the Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which was released in February. QDRs have a long history of producing rubbish, and President Obama’s first attempt was no exception. Indeed, notwithstanding the expenditure of tens of thousands of man hours and over a year of preparation, Mr. Obama’s QDR set a new low for ducking the hard decisions needed to fix the real problems afflicting the military, and by extension, the taxpayers who pay the bill. Recent events, however, show why it would be a mistake to consign the 2010 QDR to the dustbin of history. The QDR serves a useful purpose for the gamesters inhabiting the hall of mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac.
The players in the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) regard hogwash like that produced in the QDR as essential weapons for waging their unremitting budget war to extract money from the American people. Sun Tzu would have recognized the QDR for what it is: a Cheng (a dazzle) to set up a Ch’i (a stroke). When I worked in the Pentagon, we had a more prosaic name for Master Sun’s timeless principle of using a distraction to set up a decisive maneuver: The QDR is part of a cape job to set up a phony debate over the need for ever rising defense budgets while putting the rest of the government on a diet (in a recession).
+ Vermont Law School + South Royalton, Vermont + William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.
12 August 2010
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr12au10-41] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary List of Institutions of Higher Education Ineligible for Federal Funds AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). ACTION: Notice. Continue reading "Institutions of Higher Education Ineligible for Federal Funds (because they disallow military recruiters)"
(COMMENT: The drumbeat to screw retirees continues…)
Tacoma News Tribune
August 14, 2010
Pg. 14
Military Update
Higher Health Premiums On Gates' Cost-Cutting Agenda
By Tom Philpott
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signaled that the department’s fiscal 2012 budget request to be sent to Congress early next year will include recommendations to raise TRICARE premiums for some beneficiaries.
If past proposals are a reliable guide, the target of higher fees is likely to be military retirees rather than active duty families.
Continue reading “Journal: Incoherence of US Government Continues…”
We are finding that an open web search for the term plus phibetaiota, e.g. <budsko phibetaiota> yields results that cannot be achieved inside WordPress despite our use of the tag feature for all authors. The correct spelling helps: budzko not budszko, but the outside search did yield results with “close enough” spelling.
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Policy Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)
and within that
Russian View of Electronic Open Sources and How to Exploit Them
Budzko was at the time the MajGen in the KGB responsible for Information Technology, and was a world-class contributor to the dialog.
WikiLeaks to shift base to friendly Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 15 (UPI) — The founder of WikiLeaks says he will seek a publishing license for his controversial operation in Sweden where whistleblower protections are strong.
Phi Beta Iota: The Nordic nations have consistently been “smarter” and more ethical than the US and all others. Wikileaks has made many mistakes of judgment, as our esteemed colleague Steve Aftergood of Secrecy News has noted in “Wikileaks Fails Due Diligence Review,” but it can safely be said that the US, the UN, and all others are too easily found to be in violation of the “rule of law” they claim to represent. In our own experience, US Ambassadors spend too much time sweeping dirt under the rug and lying for their government (not their country–America the Beautiful does not want liars as Ambassadors), and the UN is an incestuous bog of little fiefdoms that “live and let live” without the ability to police the integrity of its own professionals. Wikipeaks exists–and is gaining traction–precisely because those who object to its leaks have failed to maintain their own integrity.
August 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba.
But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the province’s deputy governor, a respected local leader who Yemeni officials said had been trying to talk Qaeda members into giving up their fight. Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, accepted responsibility for the death and paid blood money to the offended tribes.
The strike, though, was not the work of Mr. Saleh’s decrepit Soviet-era air force. It was a secret mission by the United States military, according to American officials, at least the fourth such assault on Al Qaeda in the arid mountains and deserts of Yemen since December.
