Dolphin: USA’s First Coast to Coast Climate Network

Construction of nation’s first coast-to-coast climate network begins KSL.Com, August 7th, 2011 By Geoffrey Fattah< LOGAN — Imagine being able to put your fingers on the pulse of America’s biosphere — keeping real-time track of weather, water/soil temperature, animal populations and much more. Armed with this information, scientists would be able to detect sudden shifts …

Review: Family of Secrets – The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

Russ Baker 5.0 out of 5 stars Tough reading, desperately needs charts and graphs and a proper web site,August 4, 2011 I sat down to write a review and realized that the top review is a very good summary, and has a number of comments that provide specific new information and also recommend two other …

Chuck Spinney: Demonizing Iran, Bankrupting America

Making an Enemy of Iran By Patrick Seale Agence Global, 2 August 2011 It is now widely accepted – and lamented — that US President Barack Obama failed dismally in attempting to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Defeated by Israel’s hard-line Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and by Israel’s friends in the U.S. — …

Richard Wright: Jail Time for Over-Classification?

Is it possible the good guys are going to win the issue of over-classifcation? Can a real Open Source Agency (OSA) become the new face of strateic intelligence? Complaint Seeks Punishment for Classification of Documents By SCOTT SHANE New York Times, August 1, 2011 EXTRACT Under the executive order governing classification, the punishment could include …

Review: No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence

Hamilton Bean 5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Integrative and Pioneering Work, July 27, 2011 This is a pioneering work that not only explains the true worth of open source intelligence, but also illuminates the institutional bias against it and the pathologies of a culture of secrecy. The use of primary data from interviews makes …

Review: The Arsonist – The Most Dangerous Man in America (James Otis 1760′s Catalyst for Liberty)

Nathan A. Allen Six Star Pre-History Ignored Until Now, July 17, 2011 This is a BARN-BURNER of a book! This book is a PhD dissertation that is being published quickly to aid the cause of liberty in 2012. The academic detail would normally make it a four-star read, but the relevance, the originality, and the …