Journal: Christ in the Sights, Glaciers Not Melting, Natural Gas Galore–Another Day in America

03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, Cultural Intelligence, Military
Chuck Spinney

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus' Bible Codes

Pentagon Supplier for Rifle Sights Says It Has ‘Always' Added New Testament References

By JOSEPH RHEE, TAHMAN BRADLEY and BRIAN ROSS

Jan. 18, 2010

– – – – – – –

Note: the below report, which appears to be well sourced, does not rebut the Global Warming hypothesis per se, but it highlights the shoddy political character of the IPCC, together with its bias to hype the threat of global warming.

It also makes the revelations in the hacked emails all the more salient to the GW debate, especially those emails which reveal the organized efforts of suppress the opposing views of those scientists labeled disparagingly as “climate deniers” (an obscene, almost subliminal, reference to holocaust deniers) in peer reviewed journals.

Continue reading “Journal: Christ in the Sights, Glaciers Not Melting, Natural Gas Galore–Another Day in America”

Reference: Protecting the Force–Lessons from Fort Hood

Cultural Intelligence, DoD, True Cost
Full Report Online

Phi Beta Iota: The report observes that we lack both indicators and the ability to share information about indicators across boundaries.  More disturbing to us from a public intelligence perspective is the report's unwillingess to address the cognitive dissonance that led to the break-down of an educated multi-cultural field grade officer in the U.S. Army.

Continue reading “Reference: Protecting the Force–Lessons from Fort Hood”

Worth a Look: Water Footprint

12 Water, Earth Intelligence, True Cost, Worth A Look

Waterfootprint Network Manual
http://www.waterfootprint.org/downloads/WaterFootprintManual2009.pdf

A PILOT IN CORPORATE WATER FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTING AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT:
THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF A SUGAR-CONTAINING CARBONATED BEVERAGE
http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report39-WaterFootprintCarbonatedBeverage.pdf

THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF SWEETENERS AND BIO-ETHANOL FROM SUGAR CANE,
SUGAR BEET AND MAIZE
http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report38-WaterFootprint-sweeteners-ethanol.pdf

Homepage: http://www.waterfootprint.org

Journal: Tea Party Express Rolls Along

11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Government, Reform
Tea Party Express III National Route

Welcome to the Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out!

All throughout the recent Tea Party Express national bus tour we kept receiving calls from people around the nation who lived far away from the route our buses took across America. We vowed at the time to keep the Tea Party Express effort alive – and that’s exactly what we are doing.

Join us from March 27th to April 15th, 2010
as we tell Congress and the White House: “Enough!”

Let’s stand up and stop the bailouts, cap and trade, out-of-control spending, government-run healthcare, and higher taxes! We’re back and determined to take our country back!

Phi Beta Iota: We do not believe that a Civil War is coming for the simple reason that there are not enough organized guns to put down the public if the public is united.  The Tea Party Express is more authentic in many ways than the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), which is much more like organized politics as operated by the two parties that have corrupted the electoral system and block out the other 63 parties from actual participation.

Journal: Strong Signals from the Heartland

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Reform

Full Op-Ed Online

U.S. Heading for Hyperinflationary Collapse, Ruling Elite Preparing for Civil War

Jan 18, 2010 – 12:21 AM

By: James_Quinn

Americans have a choice. They can allow their government to bully and threaten them into conforming to their view of reality like Winston Smith or they can go down swinging like Cool Hand Luke and Randall McMurphy. The cowboy spirit of the Old West is what is required today. We need tough hardened individualists who are willing to say enough is enough. Our government has been corrupted by weak men slithering around the halls of Congress soliciting for money, an evil banking cartel creating fiat money, corporate fascists paying off criminals in Washington DC, and the military industrial complex enforcing Washington’s power across the globe. The country longs for an Andrew Jackson or a Dwight Eisenhower. Instead we are stuck with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. The citizens of the country have chosen a false security in place of liberty and freedom.

Phi Beta Iota: We monitor the Independent press and above is the beginning of one of the most extraordinary statements by a simple US citizen interested in the truth and in upholding the Republic's traditions.

Reference: Military HUMINT in Iraq

Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD

Phi Beta Iota: Below are two comments.

Original source comment, a CIA-trained SOF retired O-6: Article is loaded with some phrases and abbreviations that even I, who normally speaks that sort of thing with native fluency, had some problems with.  Seems to me that the military has taken a tough job, particularly in a combat zone, and made it even tougher through organizational and bureaucratic complexity as well as fielding a workforce to address the problem that probably is not sufficiently senior or personally mature.

Retired CIA Case Officer (C/O)  comment: There are two truth-tellers in this article.  The first is that it deals with echelon above division, which confirms that the US military is simply not trained, equipped, nor organized to do tactical clandestine human intelligence or overt human intelligence collection and integration.  The second is that doing “HUMINT” in full combat gear with tactical gloves, sunglasses and so on, is not HUMINT–we call it street-walking.    Neither HUMINT nor OSINT are serious disciplines today in the USA, on either the military or the civilian side.  The CIA does not do street-walking–they're more upscale, and go directly to sleeping with local liaison.  Take your pick, neither of these is righteous good stuff.

See also: 2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated

noble gold