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2010/02/052011/10/22

Journal: Greedy Cultish Goldman Sachs Looting America and Corrupting Democracy

Here are two excellent items on the greedy cultish institutional culture of Goldman Sachs, which has its own revolving door in and out of the Federal government. Chuck Background from November 2009 November 8, 2009 I’m doing ‘God’s work’. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs Average pay this recessionary year for the 30,000 staff is expected to …

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2010/02/042010/02/04

Journal: Sun Tzu & How NOT To Lose…

A biography of the author of this excellent essay can be found here. Phi Beta Iota: When the public disconnects from public policy, policy is made without regard to intelligence. This is one reason we concluded that to save the value of secret intelligence (i.e. prevent its being ignored and manipulated) we needed to create a …

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2010/02/03

Journal: New QDR–Pentagon Goes Intellectually AWOL

The New QDR The Pentagon Goes Intellectually AWOL By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Monday, February 1, 2010, was a day that should live in budgetary infamy. The Defense Department released its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and its accompanying Fiscal Year 2011 budget request, which is the first year of the Fiscal Year 2011-2015 five year plan …

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2010/02/022010/02/02

Journal: Politics of Fear–Spending on National Insecurity

Answer: It all depends on what you think should be included, but once this is clear — this spending will be be exempt from any cutbacks needed to reduce the deficit. The Table prepared by Winslow Wheeler, Director, Straus Military Reform Project within the Center for Defense Information. Chuck

2010/02/012010/02/01

Journal: Pentagon’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a Metaphor for a Predictable Defense Meltdown

The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …

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2010/01/302010/01/30

Journal: Chinese Military Bases in Pakistan, Elsewhere

China to Open Military Bases Worldwide. There’s a New Kid in Town. By: Pluto Saturday January 30, 2010 1:10 am This we know. It has been speculated upon in open-source intelligence circles for years. So, there is little surprise for the rest of the world when it hears of China’s first major foray in its …

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2010/01/292010/01/29

Journal: Afghanistan, Sun Tzu, State, & “Intelligence”

This post has four parts: 1) Chuck Spinney’s long commentary; 2) The original article with attachments from TruthDig; 3) a ripost making three points about Chuck’s comments; 4) Chuck’s answer and a short comment from Robert Steele The Eikenberry Cables Turn Sun Tzu on His Head: Domestic Politics and the Art of Asymmetrical Bureaucratic War …

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