The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Reaper exhibit opens at Air Force museum
As a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft, the Reaper locates and destroys time-critical and highly mobile targets and provides real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to military commanders.
Continue reading “Journal: Reaper Provides INFORMATION Not Intelligence”
This pair of searches is of concern.
To the best of our knowledge, both Translators without Borders and Telelanguage.com are reputable organizations and have nothing to do with fraud or scams. We happen to think very highly of Telelanguage.com, which among many other innovations made its software “open source” for potential future expansion. Both of these organizations are positioned to replace–bury–the antiquated US and NATO translation systems that rely on “trusted” citizens with clearances. No such thing–indeed, trusted citizens with clearances usually screw up the translations and create more dangerous problems in so doing.
The “scam” that gullible Americans are rocketing around the Internet is more of an urban myth and also a very well known scam going back through the ages, of the “overpayment” in advance and then the request. Few people seems to realize that cashing a check provides little protection against the check being rescinded. In any event, there is no connection between these two reputable companies and the gossip-fraud report that is circulating, as far as we know.
The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking. Recommended by Berto Jongman.
NeoOpticon: the EU Security-Industrial Complex (Transnational Institute)
As the title communicates.
Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card (WMD Commission)
Failing grade in isolation from all the more pressing threats (poverty, disease, environment).
Al Qaeda Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat: Hype or Reality? (Harvard)
More focus on the symptom instead of the problem (US virtual invasion of Middile East)
Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health (GQ)
Christopher Ketcham
Ever worry that that gadget you spend hours holding next to your head might be damaging your brain? Well, the evidence is starting to pour in, and it's not pretty. So why isn't anyone in America doing anything about it?
Phi Beta Iota: This is “old” news that is still news because neither the government nor the public actually pay attention. We've known since the 1980's that Soviet emission controls were ten times tougher than ours, and now in Afghanistan as we find UAVs and all other devices conflicting with each other across old “dumb” (assigned) spectrum, we are learning, AGAIN, why spectrum consciousness matters. Open Spectrum and smart devices are the way to go, along with public truth-telling about electromagnetic emissions as part of the “true cost” of all devices.
Obama’s Credibility Gap (New York Times)
Americans are still looking for the answer, and if they don’t get it soon — or if they don’t like the answer — the president’s current political problems will look like a walk in the park.
Public Rifts On Afghanistan: Leaks suggest that the administration is divided, endangering Obama's strategy (Philadelphia Enquirer)
A divided administration will produce an incoherent policy.
U.S. school bans the dictionary (Many Sources)
A California school district has added a new book to the controversial list of literature that is considered unfit for young eyes. . . . It's the dictionary.
Pentagon Report Calls for Office of ‘Strategic Deception’ (WIRED)
The Defense Department needs to get better at lying and fooling people about its intentions. That’s the conclusion from an influential Pentagon panel, the Defense Science Board (DSB), which recommends that the military and intelligence communities join in a new agency devoted to “strategic surprise/deception.”
At the end of Barack Obama’s worst week since taking power a year ago, the US president’s fortunes look set only to deteriorate over the coming days.
Phi Beta Iota: We find it quite remarkable that there is absolutely no “intelligence” in the sense of decision-support anywhere in this story. The last two Administrations (Bush-Cheney and now Obama-Biden) have been noteworthy for the completely absence of strategy, intelligence, Whole of Government management, balanced budget–just about everything a public has a right to expect from its elected and appointed and paid government.
Nightmare is the wrong word–this is self-imposed insanity based on willful ignorance and the absence of a national Open Source Agency (OSA) with a degree of independence equal to that of the Judiciary. In the Age of Information, information itself has become the Fourth Estate, and the Administration either needs to get a grip on reality and start governing with informed maturity, or watch as others pass them by–Brazil, China, India, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela, for example.
See also:
Election 2008 Chapter: The Substance of Governance
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