The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What’s The Next U.S. Terror Threat?Top officials see varied challenges in coming decade Phi Beta Iota Problem 1: These folks mean well but they are totally disconnected from reality. Phi Beta Iota Problem 2: They have no idea that the decisions made by government on the basis of their severely flawed and limited perspective costs …
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Phi Beta Iota: What all of these headlines have in common is the failure of Epoch A “leadership” or what Peggy Noonan has called the failure of institutions and Robert Steele called the paradigms of failure. Top-down command & control is incapable of meshing with bottom-up complexity that demands clarity, diversity, integrity, and legitimacy in …
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Full-body scanner blind to bomb parts: Todger, yes. Combustibles, no (The Register) U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google (CNN Opinion Online) ‘Shadow Elite’: Information Is Power And Who’s Controlling Our Information? (Huffington Post) Moslems Fighting Moslems Becomes Respectable (Strategy Figure) Gates Sees Fallout From Troubled Ties With Pakistan (New York Times) Al-Qaeda Has Trained Female …
Commandant: Marine Corps Seeks Solutions to Naval Surface Fires ‘Void’ In a recent article from “Inside the Navy.com”, the Marine Corps expressed continued concern for the lack of naval surface fires support that only the DDG-1000 offers. According to this published report, Marine Corps Commandant, Gen. James Conway, referred to the truncation of the DDG-1000 …
A central critique in my book, Defense Facts of Life: the Plans/Reality Mismatch (Westview,1985), what the trend toward increasing technical complexity in the Pentagon’s weapons and organizational arrangements caused all sorts of self destructive pathologiess — which I described in considerable detail and in subsequent studies. I defined “complexity” as a quality of the “whole” …
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Recurring Themes: 1) US Intelligence Community does not actually “know” where Iran is on nuclear, where Yemen is on Al Qaeda, where the Taliban is on Afghanistan….the list is long. 2) CIA and DoJ ares out of control on assessments and investigations–or they are consistently politicized. One or the other, which is it? 3) Terrorism …
The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust By Greg Palast Blackwater before drinking water 6. From my own work in the field, I know that FEMA has access to ready-to-go potable water, generators, mobile medical equipment and more for hurricane relief on the Gulf Coast. It’s all still there. Army Lt. Gen. …
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