The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2010, Issue No. 62 August 2, 2010 Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** AFGHANISTAN CASUALTIES, AND MORE FROM CRS ** WEAKNESSES IN INDUSTRIAL CYBER SECURITY DESCRIBED ** TOO MANY SECRETS, THE GREATEST MATH DISCOVERY, AND MORE AFGHANISTAN CASUALTIES, AND MORE FROM CRS Sixty-six American troops died …
Both a Tour of Substance, and an Eye Opener for Book People July 29, 2010 James McEnteer This is a 6 Star and Beyond book and is so categorized at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, where one can browse all 1600+ of my non-fiction reviews sorted into 98 categories and easily found with …
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Tour of the Horizon, the Smartest of Skeptics July 25, 2010 Eli Kintisch I bristled when I saw the title, but bought the book in association with my own talk to Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) on “Hacking Humanity.” I’ve put the book down glad I did not give up in the early pages, and …
William R. Polk recently sent out the attached letter to his distribution list. It is a very comprehensive and I believe important review of Afghanistan. I urge you to take the time to read it. Appended to the end are a series of notes he used in the construction of his letter. Polk know …
Serious, probably righteous if expensive program. Washington Post June 19, 2010 Pg. 1 U.S. Buying Helicopters From Russia: Lawmakers balk at Pentagon’s purchases for Afghan air corps By Craig Whitlock The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan’s fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from …
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Five if you are former CIA or SOF, rest of world will not get it May 7, 2010 George Clooney, Jeff Bridges An extraordinarily talented and experienced international law enforcement officer watched this on loan from me before I saw it, and hated it. Now that I have watched it myself, I understand–if you have …
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No One Cares By Chris Hedges 3 May 2010 We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee camps. Thousands …
