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2014/04/202014/04/20

Chuck Spinney: Robert Rubin, ROOT for the Collapse — With Bill Clinton as Active Enabler of Wall Street Crime — None of the “Advisors” Show Deep Integrity

Attached herewith is an important report in the Guardian. It places the deregulation of Wall Street during the Clinton Administration into a particularly smarmy perspective by examining documents just released by the Clinton library. Note the connections to players now in the Obama Administration. This report paints a revealing albeit depressingly familiar portrait of how …

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2014/03/202014/03/21

Steven Aftergood: ODNI Rethinks Secrecy and Openness in Intelligence — 25 Years Late, Neither Credible nor Effective, Still Missing the Point!

ODNI Rethinks Secrecy and Openness in Intelligence By leaking classified intelligence documents, Edward Snowden transformed public awareness of the scale and scope of U.S. intelligence surveillance programs. But his actions are proving to be no less consequential for national security secrecy policy. “These leaks have forced the Intelligence Community to rethink our approach to transparency …

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2014/03/072014/03/07

Event: 15 MAR 14 DC Steven Shafarman Basic Income Guarantee

Dear Nation Magazine Discussion Group in DC: Poverty and growing income inequality are on the national agenda. That’s partly thanks to Occupy Wall Street, partly to the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, the fiscal crisis, and the current prospects of a jobless recovery due to automation and out-sourcing of jobs, as many Americans are …

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2014/02/222016/03/26

Reflections: how can the intelligence community remain relevant in the 21st century

Reflections: Seven Steps to US Intelligence Reform I was quite surprised to see multiple searches using the same language. It is an important question that I have been asking — and answering — since 1988 when I helped create the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (today a mini-me of the larger mis-directed secret intelligence world). My …

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2014/02/202014/02/20

Berto Jongman: Secrecy As Culture of Waste

Secrecy = culture of waste. Balancing Transparency and National Security Is keeping military funding secret truly necessary for national security? Not according to Pieter and Siemon Wezeman. Greater transparency not only makes governments more accountable, it also helps reduce the causes of insecurity and conflict. By Pieter Wezeman and Siemon Wezeman for SIPRI EXTRACT The …

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2014/02/192014/03/20

Robert Steele: Repensando la Inteligencia Nacional – Siete falsas premisas

Robert David Steele Vivas : Es fundador de Open Source Solutions Network, Earth Intelligence Network y la Revista Journal of Public Intelligence. Steele, ex agente de la CIA, es reconocido mundialmente como pionero de la inteligencia colectiva, así como también, por ser el primero en denunciar que la CIA y los servicios de inteligencia norteamericanos …

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2014/01/242014/01/24

Berto Jongman: Atrocties Etcetera – Continued Focus on Ukraine 1.5

AFGHANISTAN: US Scholar Dies in Kabul Restaurant Attack CLIMATE: 3 6 9 world – Davos hits panic button wimps out with carbon tax CULTURE: US Foreign Policy Idealists versus Realists CYBER CRIME: DarkList Aims To Be The ‘Yelp’ Of Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers CYBER DIPLOMACY: Sweden’s early adopter foreign minister on crafting digital diplomacy CYBER: France’s …

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