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2012/02/192012/02/19

Marcus Aurelius: Slouching Toward Persistent War

COMMENT: Only a couple of things wrong with the scenario described below: (1) Vickers works for a POTUS, Administration and Congress committed to emasculating the National security operation IOT underwrite the incompetent/unindustrious/etc.; and (2) not always possible to be optimally surgical. Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2012, Pg. 30 Slouching Toward Persistent War Even as our …

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2012/01/252012/01/25

David Isenberg: Steve Coll Reviews Three Books on Secret American Security State

Our Secret American Security State The New York Review of Books, February 9, 2012 Steve Coll Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin Little, Brown, 296 pp., $27.99 Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar Columbia University …

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2012/01/172012/01/17

Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman 4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Feelings About This Book,January 17, 2012 As one who was brought up with Herbert Simon and”satisficing,” I have mixed feelings about this book. As an intelligence professional I know for a fact that corrupt politicians have zero interest in the facts, only in what will profit them …

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2012/01/022012/01/02

Susan Lindauer: IRAQ – The Legacy of Deception and Its Costs

IRAQ: THE LEGACY OF DECEPTION AND ITS COSTS Susan Lindauer, Former CIA Back Channel to Iraq at the United Nations Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a “Real Politik” vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for …

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2011/12/20

Michel Bauwens: Human Evolution – Who Are We Becoming?

Human evolution: Who are we becoming? By Steve McDonald On December 8, 2011 A map for the Archaic Revival This article appeared in Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) Journal 3 – 2011/2012 (December 2011) Introduction In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for …

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2011/12/18

Chuck Spinney: Real Cost vs Real Value of Drones? + RECAP

If we accept this unnamed official’s argument at face value, then why is this program, and those like it, classified at the special access compartmented level. Could it be that the object of the excessive secrecy is keep the cost and some of the performance data from the American people so that they do not …

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2011/12/132011/12/13

Mini-Me: End of the Delusional UAV Era

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) rose to prominence in an era of uncontested budget growth (including a borrowed trillion dollars a year) and uncontested airspace. That era is now over. There will still be a place for mico-UAVs, especially in direct support of small unit operations, but neither the US military nor the US secret …

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