The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NSA Surveillance May Cost U.S. Tech Companies More than $35 Billion Two years ago, when Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s massive surveillance machine it didn’t just make Americans distrust the U.S. government—it also impelled foreigners to shy away from U.S.-made technologies. The result appears to be costly. In fact, a new report from the Information …
Snowden-Proof? NSA Trying to Stop Future Leakers The National Security Agency – notorious for targeting the general public with its surveillance programs – will monitor its own employees to guard against another leak like the one perpetrated by former agency contractor Edward Snowden. ROBERT STEELE: In 1986, while serving on detail within CIA’s Office of …
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America’s Military Power in a Steep Decline EXTRACT If you want to know what is wrong about the entire approach to our nation’s military needs, consider that since 2009 when Obama took office, the Pentagon’s civilian workforce has grown about 7% to almost 750,000, while active-duty military personnel have been cut by approximately 8%. At …
Michael Glennon 4.0 out of 5 stars World Class on One Half of the Challenge, Misses the Other Half Entirely, February 25, 2015 If Mort Halperin, who wrote the original book with the memorable “Rule 1” (Lie to the President if you can get away with it), Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is kind enough …
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Retired Foreign Service Officer and past Manager of Political and Military Affairs at the US Department of State. For a brief time an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Denver and the University of Washington at Seattle. A graduate of the National War College and a Phd from the University of Southern …
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The so-called “Internet of things” seems to mean a lot of things. But for the government, which executes the orders of the 1% of the 1%, it’s primary value is to spy: “As Daniel Taylor, of Old Thinker News, points out, the militarization and weaponization of the digital space has been a long time coming, …
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2014 ANSWERS Robert Steele to Richard Olivier of Findhorn on Leadership for the 21st Century • What do 21st century leaders need to know and who do they need to be? • How can we develop these capacities? • What, on a systemic level, is blocking the needed leadership evolution? • What is missing from …
