DefDog: DHS Comedy of Errors on Water-Pump “Hack”

If there is ever a story to validate the reduction of spending in the intelligence community, this would be it………. Exclusive: Comedy of Errors Led to False ‘Water-Pump Hack’ Report It was the broken water pump heard ’round the world. Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had …

Mini-Me: World Revolting Against US Economic Model [Full Text Online for Google Translate]

Open Letter at P2P Foundation Dear friends and colleagues, The world is riveting toward a possible turning point and we hope that you are able to stand with us in this call to action. We, the undersigned, have co-authored the document noted below. We are now writing to seek your endorsement. Please if you wish …

Marcus Aurelius: SecDef to McCain on Sequester + RECAP on DoD Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Invite your attention to pages 5 thru 7 of attached which outlines in very clear terms the likely FY 2013 and longer term impacts on the Department of Defense and the Joint Force of the impending sequester brought about by this week’s dereliction of duty on the part of the Senators and Representatives making up …

Marcus Aurelius: Seven Strategic Trends (Canada Sends)

Seven Sinister Strategic Trends: A Brief Examination of Events to Come by Lieutenant Nick Deshpande, Canadian Forces (Army), Intelligence Branch 1.  Decline of the United States 2.  Cyber Threats 3.  Fiscal Sustainability 4.  Transnational Organized Crime 5.  Environmental Degradation and Resource Scarcity 6.  Energy Crisis 7.  Global Pandemic  PDF 9 Pages Phi Beta Iota:   The …

DefDog: CIA Decides Who to Blow Up – Without Having Any Idea Who They Are…

Admission of the failure of Intelligence, and yet nobody is asking why? Does the CIA Even Know Who Its Drones Are Killing? During the Bush era, the agency helped imprison scores of innocents. In the Obama era, it decides who to blow up. Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic, 7 November 2011 Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld …

Reference: The Privatization [Corruption] of Democracy – Honoring & Documenting the Work of Eva Waskell

I am honored that Eva Waskell has entrusted me to present The Privatization of Our Democracy, a work that I regard as her Profile in Courage. For 25 years she has labored to correct what is possibly the most significant public policy failure of the computer age—the privatization of vote counting carried out under the …