The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Below the line are a number of books with links to their Amazon pages. The most interesting point we drew from creating this list is that the intersection of religion and science that is now occurring is coincident with the intersection of consciousness and extraterrestrial convergence. The Mayans foretold a return or …
WikiLeaks Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize (Associated Press) A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, saying Wednesday that its disclosures of classified documents promote world peace by holding governments accountable for their actions.
On top of everything else…. Spy Games: Intelligence Agency to Fund Video Games for Spooks Sharon Weinberger Contributor Scientists say video games can increase concentration, help with learning and even improve decision-making skills. Now, in an effort to improve the work of spies, the intelligence community may also resort to using educational games. Phi Beta …
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The below was inspired by a close look at the evolving concept of cyber-commands. In our judgment, LtGen Keith Alexander, USA and those in charge of the various service cyber-commands are headed for spectacularly expensive failure, minor operational successes not-with-standing. The officers concerned are well-intentioned, precisely like their predecessors who chose to ignore precisely the …
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is not dead–it just does not exist within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Department of Defense (DoD). “Butts in Seats,” bureaucracy, political flag officers with no sense of responsibility for the commonwealth, this is our lot today. Rule 1: HUMINT is not an organization. It is a state of mind …
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The Clear-Hold-Build (C-H-B) strategy was first enunciated enthusiastically during the Bush Administration as the new counterinsurgency strategy to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. Actually, this strategy was merely an unimaginative regurgitation of Marshall Lautey’s “tache d’huile” (oil spot) strategy used to quell native uprisings during France colonial wars at the end …
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Dollars for Docs Payments Approach $300 Million by Charles Ornstein , Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen ProPublica, Dec. 22, 2010, 1:36 p.m. Today we’ve added another $13 million in payments to our Dollars for Docs database of drug-company spending on doctors and other health professionals. That brings the total to nearly $295 million. ProPublica launched …
