The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles” Food For Thought If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally … You might live in a country run by idiots. If you have to get …
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Here is the original post of the document and our critique. Reference: Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) Number 300: Management, Integration, and Oversight of Intelligence Collection and Covert Action Since then the position of the ADDNI/OS has been abolished, the long-standing director of the OSC that did so much damage in his ignorance and arrogance has …
A Global Rescue Plan When the wealthy nations of the world meet as the G8 or in any other gathering, it’s interesting to imagine what they would do if they followed the golden rule, valued grandchildren, disliked unnecessary suffering, or wished to outgrow ancient forms of barbarism, or any combination of those. The United States …
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Former CIA Head Warns David Gregory: We’ll Have To Be ‘Less Effective To Be A Little More Transparent’ Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told Meet the Press’ David Gregory on Sunday morning that security and transparency were a zero-sum game. “For part of my life, when I was running the NSA program, I thought lawful, …
Canada Makes the Automation of Tyranny Easier Here’s a sign of the times. Canada has made wearing a mask at a protest a crime. Why did they do this? It makes it easier for police to ID people using CCTV and social media photos after a protest occurs. It also makes it easier to …
Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below). The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with. Let’s begin with a little background. The Sykes-Picot agreement (it …
Iran, Cyberwar, and the Perils of Lazy Thinking For those of you that don’t know, the US doesn’t spend much time/energy/effort on military strategy and theory. They do spend money on political scientists and engineers to provide a substitute. Regardless, this deficit means the US continually falls victim to strategic errors due to stale military …
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