The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Literature Review
Minerva Nasser-Eddine, Bridget Garnham, Katerina Agostino, Gilbert Caluya
Counter Terrorism and Security Technology Centre, Defense Science and Technology Organisation, Department of Defence, Australian Government
Phi Beta Iota: Few seem to be able to focus on the foundation of terrorism: illegitimate governance and socio-economic repression. Few seem to be able to articulate the reality that Idiocy, Immorality, & Ideology (I3) in government is a prescription for revolution, which is a movement, and terrorism, which is a tactic. Few seem able to utter the dread word CORRUPTION, or state with clarity that we are our own worst enemy; that the addiction of so many to funding and applause from corrupt governments prevents the emergence of the truth such that it ends fraud, waste, abuse, and borrowing, and establishes a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all. Just one word, adopted by all, is needed: INTEGRITY.
See Also:
Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare in the Global Glass House
U.S. accelerating cyberweapon research
Global Strategic Assessment (National Defense University)
Phi Beta Iota: Devoid of a strategic analytic model, devoid of the concept of “true costs,” and devoid of any self-understanding in relation to corruption at all levels across all boundaries. A wonderful collection of essays all of which avert their eyes from the naked Emperor.
USSOUTHCOM Commander: Illicit Financial Flows Enable ‘Staggering’ Transnational Organized Crime
Phi Beta Iota: US Government is not ready to acknowledge that legalized crime by the US banking and finance “industry” is vastly more harmful than street-level quasi-organized crime — nor does the US Government acknowledge that its regulations have created a System D / off the books economy that is routing around the US Government — ignoring it.
Estimating Illicit Financial Flows Resulting from Drug Trafficking and Other Transnational Organized Crimes (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
SHORT WAR, LONG SHADOW: The Political and Military Legacies of the 2011 Libya Campaign (Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall Report 1-12)
Challenges of Counterterrorism (Syracuse University Podcast)
Huh?
Bush’s Terror War and the Fixing of Intelligence
On September 11, 2001, within hours of the murderous 9/11 attacks, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney had committed America to what they later called the “War on Terror.” It should more properly, I believe, be called the “Terror War,” one in which terror has been directed repeatedly against civilians by all participants, both states and non-state actors. It should also be seen as part of a larger, indeed global, process in which terror has been used against civilians in interrelated campaigns by all major powers, including China in Xinjiang and Russia in Chechnya, as well as the United States.2 Terror war in its global context should perhaps be seen as the latest stage of the age-long secular spread of transurban civilization into areas of mostly rural resistance — areas where conventional forms of warfare, for either geographic or cultural reasons, prove inconclusive.
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In 2011 an important book by Kevin Fenton, Disconnecting the Dots, demonstrated conclusively that the withholding was purposive, and sustained over a period of eighteen months.8 This interference and manipulation became particularly blatant and controversial in the days before 9/11; it led one FBI agent, Steve Bongardt, to predict accurately on August 29, less than two weeks before 9/11, that “someday someone will die.”9
Continue reading “Mini-Me: From JFK to 9/11 Spotlight Shines on the CIA”
New report released by the Institute for Economics & Peace analyses the macroeconomic effects of US government spending on wars and the military since World War II.
The IEP’s latest report, Economic Consequences of War on the US Economy, analyses the macroeconomic effects of US government spending on wars and the military.
The report studies five periods – World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Afghanistan/Iraq wars – exposing the effect of war financing on debt, consumption, investment, jobs, taxes, government deficits, and inflation.
The findings of the report show devastating trends for US tax, debt and deficit debates.
Download the report here
Key findings
The U.S. has paid for its wars either through debt [World War II, Cold War, Afghanistan/Iraq], taxation [Korean War] or inflation [Vietnam]. In each case, taxpayers have been burdened, and private sector consumption and investment have been constrained as a result.
Report highlights
The report shows the following economic indicators experiencing negative effects either during or after the conflicts:
The higher levels of government spending associated with war tends to generate some positive economic benefits in the short-term, specifically through increases in economic growth occurring during conflict spending booms. However, negative unintended consequences occur either concurrently with the war or develop as residual effects afterwards thereby harming the economy over the longer term.
Phi Beta Iota: There appears to be a continued reluctance to address the real causes of our terrible situation: corruption across the board. No amount of intellectual posturing, whether in a book or in a conference, is a substitute for full transparency and the truth — the whole truth. The lack of integrity across all eight tribes — academia, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit — is the ROOT CAUSE of our collapse.
See Also:
Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both
2012 THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
Afghan parliament delegation claims 15 US troops were involved in Kandahar massacre
Bill Roggio
Threat Matrix, 17 March 2012
One day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the US and implied that more than one US soldier was involved in the mass murder of 16 Afghans in Kandahar's Panjwai district last weekend, a delegation from the Afghan parliament is claiming that at least 15 US soldiers “accompanied by 2 helicopters” were involved in the massacre. From Khaama Press:
A delegation of the Afghan parliament members who visited Kandahar province said at least 15 US troops were behind the assassination of 16 Afghan villagers at Panjwai district in this province.The delegation included 5 Afghan parliament members who were sent by the Afghan House of Representatives to find out the facts behind the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians at Panjwai district.
The delegation presented its findings report to the Afghan House of Representative which states that the civilians massacre was plotted where at least 15 US troops were involved.
A member of the Afghan parliament Shakila Hashimi who presented the report to the Afghan House of Representatives said false statements were given to the Afghan people by provincial governor Toryalai Weesa and US commander saying that the shooting was carried out by a single US soldier.She also added, the assassination was carried out by 2 groups of US soldiers consisting of 15 to 20 soldiers and were accompanied by 2 helicopters.
Chemtrails Against US General Public?
This article explains how to distinguish ordinary contrails from what is a by-definition hazardous chemtrail in the sky. The reason it is hazardous is the two chemicals researchers were able to identify from chemtrails residues: “Several sky watchers throughout the world have had residue samples analyzed after collecting them in water containers, air traps, and on shrubbery twigs. They have all come up with two common elements: barium and aluminum. Barium is very toxic. Reportedly, it was sprayed from aircraft during Gulf War I to weaken the enemy on the ground. Some consider barium salts more toxic than lead. It affects the lungs directly. Aluminum is a toxin that leads to dementia and neurological diseases. The nasal passages and lungs enable aluminum to have easy entry into our blood streams and affect tissues, including the heart and brain.” Given that lung diseases such as COPD and asthma have increased by large degrees in the last few decades, which is during the same time period, according to this article, when chemtrail spraying has been occurring, is this more than just a coincidence? Is chemtrail spraying another corporate-government initiative, along with others ongoing (vaccines, a deeply corrupt and ineffective medical industrial system) and planned (more vaccines, neutron bombs, selective gas attacks, starvation due to economic collapse) in order to reduce population?
Denying chemtrails is dangerous for your health
Martial Law and Resource Control Preamble to War on Iran?
See key excerpts below (my emphasis in underlined items):
“The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy, production, transportation, food, and even water resources by decree under the auspices of national defense and national security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation, as one of the order's functions includes the command and control of resources in peacetime determinations.”
“The economy of the United States is based on the free flow of resources, energy, and the rights of consumers to buy and sell as they see fit. Any interference in this economic process quickly leads to shortages, rising prices, and civil unrest. The purpose of President Obama signing this new Executive Order is yet unclear, however, it may coincide with information coming out of Israel yesterday that plans for a tactical or strategic strike on Iran are accelerating. Oil prices in Europe rose over $3 a barrel for Brent crude after the Israeli actions, and US oil prices rose $2 for WTI.
The Obama administration appears to be preparing for a long drawn out war in the Middle East, or at the very least, an expected crisis that will require the need to override Constitutional authority and claim dominion over all resources in the United States under the guise of national defense. With the rise in Disaster Preparedness growing for both individuals and states leading up to yesterday's Executive Order, the mood of the nation points strongly towards some event or disaster that will require massive preparations on a national as well as local scale.”
No Attack on Iran, Just a Massive Oil Futures Scam
This article from William Engdahl is persuasive in arguing there will be no Israeli/American attack on Iran, and I have seen other writers make similar points about how this is only intended to enrich the coffers of bankster derivative fund speculator-friends of Obama. However, what weakens his arguments is not only Obama's new executive order to control all resources, but many reports of another Naval carrier and mind sweepers heading to the area. Would Obama send such resources to the Gulf just to solidify an impression of imminent war to help insure his bankster friends make tons of more money on oil speculation? Others more cynical than me may know the answer to that question.
‘The Key Oil Derivatives Insiders are Laughing All the Way to the Bank’
