The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Perfectly Framed Assassination Stepped-up surveillance technology may be tipping the scales in the cat-and-mouse game between spies and their targets. Robert Baer on the current state of spycraft. EXTRACT: I can only speculate about where exactly the hit went wrong. But I would guess the assassins failed to account for the marked advance in …
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One of Two “Best” on China in Africa February 22, 2010 Robert I. Rotberg, contributing editor Of the modest number of books focused on China in Africa, this is one of the two best, and both are unique–if you buy only one, at least read my summary of the other, China Safari: On the Trail …
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Final Review: Ground-Level View of Obvious Vulnerabilities and a General Failure to Protect February 10, 2010 [final review 21 February] Sam Faddis My own new book is finally at the printer, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty and I am really enjoying getting back into serial reading. I totally respected and agreed with …
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Establishment Unsheathes the Long knives in Versailles??????? America: A fearsome foursome (Financial Times) By Edward Luce Financial Times Published: February 3 2010 20:09 Phi Beta Iota: The Financial Times is retarded (yes, the R-word, used with love) and has not yet caught up to the fact that required registrations are so TIRED. We provide the …
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“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …
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Adequacy of Aid. Foreign Food Aid Trickles Into Haiti’s Black Market (New York Times, 4 Feb 10). PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Blocks from where U.S. and U.N. soldiers distribute sacks of rice to Haitian women in earthquake-shattered Port-au-Prince, street vendors are openly selling rice by the cup from bags stamped with U.S. flags. . . . …
More Than Espionage: Open-source intelligence should be part of solution Washington Times January 27, 2010 Pg. B3 By Andrew M. Borene Here’s some food for thought: White House policymakers and Congress can help develop an increasingly robust national intelligence capacity by investing new money in the pursuit of a centralized open-source intelligence (OSINT) …
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