The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Islam in Africa (Wikipedia)
Islam in Africa (Congressional Research Service, 9 May 08)
Ending Wahabism Influence in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Sudan, Gulf (INDOLin, 4 Jan 09)
ANALYSIS-Saudi power below par despite wealth, Islamic role (Reuters 22 Feb 09)
Growing Iranian Regional Influence Worries Saudi Arabia (News.com, 23 Feb 07)
Saudis buying influence in Gaza (World Tribune, 28 Jun 07)
Saudi Arabia's Media Influence (Arab Media & Society, Fall 2007)
Webster G. Tarpley
March 3, 2010
It has been evident for some time that the ongoing speculative attack on Greece, along with such other countries as Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Italy, was not primarily a reflection of their economic fundamentals, nor yet a spontaneous movement of “the market,” but rather an orchestrated action of economic warfare.
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Phi Beta Iota: There is no question but that Dr. Tarpley is correct at the moment, the hedge funds are waging economic war on Europe, are out of control, and need to be stomped down. HOWEVER, what is not evident in his longer report is the fact that Europe welcomed help from Goldman Sachs and others in concealing its long-term debt, and it is for this reason that the hedge funds now have an “information advantage” that gives them a “sure bet” against the Euro generally and Greece specifically. Until the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the African Union (AU), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)–to name just a few–get a grip on the totality of the information relevant to their safety, security, and efficiency, predatory capitalism, virtual colonialism, and unilateral militarism will continue to rule. Our new book, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability, provides a game plan for creating a prosperous world at peace by arming the UN, EU, AU, UNASUR, and SCO with the means to do multicultural, multifunctional information-sharing and sense-making. Our favorite line from the book: a woman with a cell phone is vastly more powerful than a man with a gun.
Note to analysts: Analysts new to this problem need to take this aboard. Pakistani and Indian officers obey or they get cashiered, if not executed. The ability of the Pakistani security authorities to round up and arrest more than half the membership of the Quetta Shura, fled to Karachi, indicates the Shura members always were under positive surveillance and tracking by Pakistani intelligence.
The thesis that rogue officers supported the Afghan Taliban against orders is jejune and ludicrous! The Pakistan and Indian Armies do not promote individual judgment; they are not like the US or NATO armies.
Nightwatch and old hands never credited the argument that rogues in the Pakistani security services were helping the militants – Taliban or al Qaida. That is not how the Pakistan Army works.
The strategic direction in Islamabad has changed and now the Pakistani intelligence and security services are showing they knew where these thugs were all along and could have rounded them up at any time, had they received orders to do so.
Phi Beta Iota: What is truly extraordinary about the above is the reality that no one in the US intelligence community recognized or was willing to speculate that the US policymakers were being “played” by Pakistan. Evidently we do not do offensive countersurveillance on the Pakistani ISI, and NSA evidently does not have a grip on their internal communications in languages we cannot speak, hence Pakistani ISI and military were able to bluff the US for two decades.
Original NitchWatch Report Below the Fold
Continue reading “NIGHTWATCH: Focus on Pakistan's 20-Year Bluff”
1995 Open Sources and the Virtual Intelligence Community (with MC&G Emphasis)
1998 Open Source Intelligence Overview (Australia)
1999 Relevant Information and All-Source Analysis: The Emerging Revolution
2002 Reference: Jack Davis Leadership in Intelligence Analysis (August 2002)
Improving CIA Analytic Performance: Strategic Warning
Improving CIA Analytic Performance: Analysts and the Policymaking Process
Improving CIA Analytic Performance: DI Analytic Priorities
Sherman Kent and the Profession of Intelligence Analysis
Strategic Warning: If Surprise is Inevitable, What Role for Analysis?
Tensions in Analyst-Policymaker Relations: Opinions, Facts, and Evidence
Sherman Kent’s Final Thoughts on Analyst-Policymaker Relations
Among the food scares in recent years was a deadly E. coli outbreak tied to spinach. In most cases, it's unknown how or why people get ill from what they eat. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / September 15, 2006)
Phi Beta Iota: The second sentence is ignorant. It is well-known that between industrial farming with zero regard for either the spill-over of animal shit into fields growing fruits and vegatables, combined with an exotic array of antibiotics for the animals (living in ghetto conditions) and pesticides for the plants, most of which have NOT been tested and are NOT regulated because of multiple legal loopholes, most of what we eat is mostly comprised of oil and corn and neither safe nor nutritious. Corporate irresponsibility survives because government complacency has been purchased. This is a superb example of “true cost” economics that will hit the marketplace like a tsunami in the next five years. When man-made illnesses are combined with over-kill on man-made antibiotics, we end up with untreatable bacterial and other diseases, all of this forecast in the strongest possible terms in the past 20 years.
See also:
INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
The below book selections are pulled from Chapter 20 on 21st Century Counterintelligence: Evaluating the Health of the Nation. The fragementation of knowledge, and the ignorance of the media, the government, and the academy are now profoundly pathological.
There is a new nation-wide movement striving to innoculate the National Guard as well as state and local police forces against illegal orders from the Pentagon and the White House. The basic loyalty to the Republic Oath elements are below. This comes in reaction to three distinct tangibles and one unverified but provocative intangible that are circulating with increasing urgency among those who fear the two-party tyranny and a blindly-obedient Pentagon:
1) Haliburton prison camps on US soil
2) FEMA discussions with various state and local law enforcement agencies about “federalizing” state and local police in case of a “national” emergency
3) Document said to be circulating within Washington on the prospects of an armed rebellion within the USA (we think secession and nullification much more likely, with armed resistance only if the federal government stupidly tries to use force against state and local resistance.
4) Unverified but from a Special Forces source with eyes on and unblemished integrity: multiple US military camps, one in Washington State and one in Alabama, among other locations, at which battalion size units of foreign troops (men without a country) have been kept in isolation, armed and trained, for contingency use within the USA. The same source says there is a long running PSYOP profiling program to identify for contingency need those US military personnel who would be willing to disarm US citizens if ordered to do so.
Never thought we'd get to this point. Visit the site above for a closer look. This is a movement Of, By, and For We the People, and it has very strong West Point, retired USMC, and National Guard support. In our view, the US military itself is beginning to realize the topsy-turvy nature of the morphing of the Global War on Terror (which is a tactic, not a target) into a War on Liberty right here in America. As we have long maintained, it is vital that our military personnel remember that Integrity is about loyalty to the Constitution, not to the chain of command.
OATH KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY
1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.
4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.”
9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies. 10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
A most interesting search that yielded nothing on the first page. The extra “i” in definition did not help. Here is the human-in-the-loop response.
Human Definition
What we have come to realize in our mature years is that any cult, state, network, organization, or other form of human organization that excludes any other humans from being regarded as humans, is a genocidal betrayal of the core definition of humanity as homo sapiens. “Sapiens,” Latin for wise or knowing, makes the seeking of truth–of understanding–a core element of being human, with the humanities being a form of third generation evolved truth after war-fighting and the sciences. Mankind's greatest error in the past several centuries has been its retention of tribes as exclusive networks rather than its proper evolution into a restoration of the extended family concept. Religions–the Catholic religion as much as any–have been a brutal ignorant means of separating humanity and defining those who do not conform (or speak the conquering force's language) as barbarians. Operationally, most governments, corporations, and organizations have failed to fully integrate and exploit (as well as nurture) the totality of their human assets. A side show has been the arrogant assumption that humans own the Earth. In fact, the Earth is resilient, and the human species is just another species unless and until it achieves conscious evolution, humanity ascending. (See the new book).
Truth Definition
Truth is a cultural concept in so far as political-legal, socio-economic, or ideo-cultural constructs are permitted to temper the truth with constructs that are human in origin rather than deeply rooted in external reality. There is no such thing as a secular truth, or a religious truth, in isolation. Sciences, Humanities, and Faith (including intuition) must come together. In relation to reality, however, truth is a constant and in our view truth must have standing in all forums. The truth at any cost lowers all other costs. Anything less is a lie. (See the new book).
