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Mongoose: $540M for Fake News? How Much Open Source Intelligence Could That Buy for Special Operations Forces?

IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military
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Pentagon paid PR firm 540mn to make fake terrorist videos

The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.   . . .    The firm created television ads showing Al-Qaeda in a negative light as well as creating content to look as though it had come from “Arabic TV”. Crews were sent out to film bombings with low quality video. The firm would then edit it to make it look like news footage.   . . .   The firm also created fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos, which were then planted by the military in homes they raided.

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Anthony Judge: Should We Vote for the Wrong Person (Donald Trump) for the Right Reason? Is Hillary Clinton Our Tony Blair?

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Above headline by Phi Beta Iota. Original headline below.

Engaging Proactively with the Risk of World Misleadership

Trump vs Clinton and the potential of carpe diem in the democratic process?

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Berto Jongman: Lessons Learned on Counter-Terrorism — A History of Failure

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, Military, Peace Intelligence
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What lessons should be learnt from 15 years of counter-terror and stabilisation?

By aiding and abetting abuse, corruption and bad governance in Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, Western actors fell into the ‘stabilisation trap’: trading away a long-term focus on rights and governance for short-term stability – but ultimately guaranteeing abusive governance, chronic instability and deep public resentment. As these examples show, ‘terrorists’ may not be the worst threat to stability in conflict contexts, and lasting peace in contexts like Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan will prove elusive without facing up to the cynicism and abuse of supposed ‘partners’.

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Cynthia McKinney: The Truth at Any Cost…

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Truth Foretold, Specious Journalism, And Spurious Assertions:

The Case of Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View, and The Charlotte Observer

While it is true that I was “booted” by pro-war Democrats who worked in concert with like-minded Republicans, your assertion of my being booted for “peddling conspiracies” deserves a deeper look.  My booting, by the way, resulted in the GOP takeover of my home State of Georgia, an outcome that seemingly makes both pro-war Democrats and Republicans (now called “globalists”) comfortable.  Therefore, I want to take a deeper look at what I did “peddle:”

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Berto Jongman: Fewer and Fewer Journalists…

Ineptitude, Media
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Employment picture darkens for journalists at digital outlets

In 2005, for every one digital-only journalist, there were 20 newspaper journalists. In 2015, for every one digital-only journalist, there were four newspaper journalists.

In 2005, there were 69,900 journalists employed in these two industries. In 2015, there were 51,980, a decline of 26 percent. As a result, Americans have fewer journalists to provide news information.

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Marcus Aurelius: Dead People Registering to Vote – Democratic Voter Fraud in Virginia

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FBI Investigating After Dead People Registered To Vote In Swing State

“Oftentimes we hear our Democratic colleagues suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia, or it’s a myth,” House Speaker William Howell, R-Stafford, said. “This is proof that voter fraud not only exists but is ongoing and is a threat to the integrity of our elections.”

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