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2010/01/242010/01/26

Journal: Haiti Update from Marine Eyes On–America is Shaming Itself and Opening Door to a Crime Against Humanity of Catastrophic Proportions

Attached is an important eyewitness assessment of the current situation in Haiti. It was written by William McNulty, a retired marine who is a volunteer member of Team Rubicon, a self-financed and self-deployed group of former Marines, soldiers and health care professionals currently providing emergency relief in Haiti. McNulty paints a grim picture of condition …

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2010/01/24

Journal: Deficit Terrorism Could Kill the Euro

Now that the mega banks have been bailed out, there is growing pressure in the US and the EU to cut back on state deficits. In the US, which is now under the constraints of of it highest burden private debt burden in recorded economic debt burden (i.e., level of debt related to size of …

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2010/01/232010/01/23

Journal: Freedom of Speech, Personhood, & Corporations Ubber Alles–You Will Be Assimilated

After reading this report by my good friend Werther, I would urge you to compare Werther’s analysis to the “inside the beltway,” K Street analyses published in today’s Washington Post — then decide which you like better. Chuck Spinney High Court Decrees Existence of Corporate Übermensch By Werther (Pseudonym) Electric Politics January 22, 2010 The …

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2010/01/222011/10/22

Search: smart nation intelligence reform electoral reform national security reform

Lovely to see a search like this. Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought: all the references from the …

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2010/01/212010/01/21

Journal: Washington Post Explains CIA Suicide in AF

The Washington Post (headline and link below) purports to explain how the CIA fell victim to a series of miscalculations that make it vulnerable to the devastating attack on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman, a CIA base in Khost Province, Afghanistan, but it does not pass the smell test. Of course, coming from the Washington …

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2010/01/212010/01/21

Journal: Intelligence & Innovation Support to Strategy, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Acquisition

Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …

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2010/01/212011/10/22

Journal: Base to Obama, Base to Obama….Hello? Hello?

This op-ed by my friend Marshall Auerback is REALLY GOOD!!!!! I follow it with another good op-ed to bookend Auerback’s. Chuck Phi Beta Iota: In meetings with various non-profit and non-partisan advocacy groups over the past year we have been quite stunned to observe that they are all vested in the two-party system and are …

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