The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is not dead–it just does not exist within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Department of Defense (DoD). “Butts in Seats,” bureaucracy, political flag officers with no sense of responsibility for the commonwealth, this is our lot today. Rule 1: HUMINT is not an organization. It is a state of mind …
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Jim Turner, #2 to Ralph Nader in the day, is co-author of VOICE OF THE PEOPLE–The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life. This is his contribution to the current dialog. My view is that Krugman’s article — Paul Krugman / We fundamentally disagree America is divided by two very different views of government Saturday, January 15, …
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Navy Intel Chief: Information Dominance Must Balance Firepower By Karen Parrish, American Forces Press Service, 6 January 2011 WASHINGTON (NNS) — “Information as warfare” requires operational commanders to employ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to dominate the information realm even as they direct combat actions, the Navy’s senior intelligence officer said Jan. 5. Vice Adm. David …
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William Hartung Final Review: Boring, Limited, Not for General Audience January 3, 2011 After reading this book, which I found to be extremely boring, I have to give Pierre Sprey very high marks for his substantive contributions to the C-SPAN Book interview of the author. My summary of that interview is therefore an important part …
In defense of RSS Lots of buzz today about RSS (dying or not dying). If you’re not using it, can I strongly suggest you give it a try? I use Newsfire. Not sure the particular readers matters, though. Here’s what you need to know: It’s not particularly difficult to keep up with 200 blogs you …
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SEE ALSO: Journal: Gorgon Stare (All Eyes, No Brain) The American Way of War: If You Can See Everything, Can You Know Anything? With Air Force’s new drone, ‘we can see everything,’ in today’s Washington Post (attached below) is a good example of how the high-cost addiction to techno war is running amok. One thing …
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Last week, in the aftermath of the No Labels debacle, I focused on the Diversity of Voices & Values, while standing to salute Tom Atlee’s proposition that integral CITIZENSHIP trumps any form of alleged Transpartisanship. In the new year my focus is going to be on creating infinite wealth for all–on a moral rebirth of …
