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2012/09/142012/09/14

Owl: Drugs of War – The Imperial Trade, Banks on Top

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Economics/True Cost, Government, Knowledge, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Money, Officers Call, Politics

A Jaw-Dropping Explanation of How Governments Are Complicit in the Illegal Drug Trade

The drug war is far, far more than just simply criminals at work, says scholar Oliver Villar.

Note: The following interview helps us understand the drug war from a dramatically different perspective than the one the corporate media paints. Instead the traditional portrayal of the war on drugs as a fight between law enforcement and illicit drug dealers, scholar Oliver Villar explains that the illegal drug trade is a tool of empire a means of “social control” as much as profit. Villar, a lecturer in politics at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia's insight is well worth the read.

EXTRACT:

LS: Catherine Austin Fitts, a former investment banker from Wall Street, shared this observation once with me:

Essentially, I would say the governments run the drug trade, but they're not the ultimate power, they're just one part, if you will, of managing the operations. Nobody can run a drug business, unless

the banks will do their transactions and handle their money. If you want to understand who controls the drug trade in a place, you need to ask yourself who is it that has to accept to manage the transactions and to manage the capital, and that will lead you to the answer who's in control. [2]

What are your thoughts on this essential equation?

Read full interview.

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2012/09/052012/09/13

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Re-Boot

Articles & Chapters

The two below references have finally been updated and the original PDFs are now online (they were lost when site moved from Sweden and previous oss.net shortcuts were lost).

NEW: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) OLD: http://www.oss.net/OSINT-S

Introduction OSINT and Intelligence Reform – History – Requirements – Collection – Processing – Analysis – Covert Action – Counterintelligence – Accountability, Civil Liberties, and Oversight – Strategic Warning – Strategic Sharing – Emerging Prospects — Digitization — Visualization — Peer-to-Peer (P2P) OSINT and Electoral Reform OSINT and Governance Reform OSINT and Strategic Budgetary Reform Notes 1-44

NEW: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Operational) OLD: http://www.oss.net/OSINT-O

Executive Summary – Definition and scope – Open source intelligence and joint or coalition operations – Private sector information offerings – OSINT and the emerging future intelligence architecture of NATO Introduction to Open Source Intelligence – Definitions – OSINT in context – OSINT and information operations – OSINT and national security – OSINT and the larger customer base for intelligence – OSINT and the levels of analysis – OSINT and coalitions – OSINT and saving the world – OSINT as a transformative catalyst for reform Open Sources of Information Open Source Software and Software for Exploitation Open Source Services The Open Source Intelligence Cycle Applied Open Source Intelligence – Open source intelligence tradecraft – Mission relevance of open source intelligence — Missioon area applications Conclusion – Money Matters — Funding trade-offs — Contracting mistakes — Metrics for measuring return on investment —–Cost of secrecy —–Relative value —–Return on sharing — Commercial strategy — Budget and manning implications – The value of sharing References Acronyms Notes 1-30

Open Source Agency Executive Access Point

2012/09/042012/09/04

Steven Aftergood: DoD IG Shines Light on DoD Security Incoherence

Corruption, DoD, IO Impotency, Military

DOD SECURITY POLICY IS INCOHERENT AND UNMANAGEABLE, IG SAYS

“DoD security policy is fragmented, redundant, and inconsistent,” according to a new report from the Department of Defense Inspector General. This is not a new development, the report noted, but one that has persisted despite decades of criticism.

There are at least 43 distinct DoD security policies “covering the functional areas of information security, industrial security, operations security, research and technology protection, personnel security, physical security, and special access programs,” the Inspector General report noted.

“The sheer volume of security policies that are not coordinated or integrated makes it difficult for those at the field level to ensure consistent and comprehensive policy implementation.”

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2012/07/16