Eagle: Jon Rappoport: Congress, Not Monsanto, Is Our Center of Gravity

Monsanto proves that corporations don’t run the government by Jon Rappoport March 27, 2013 Collectivists have a favorite target. Big bad corporations. This is a complete scam. Why did Goldman Sachs turn out to be the biggest funder of Obama’s 2008 election bid? Why weren’t the corporate banksters who demanded and received those enormous bailouts, …

Review: Global Trends 2030 – Alternative Worlds [Paperback, Well Priced]

National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI/NIC) 3.0 out of 5 stars $75 Billion a Year and This is the Poster Child for the Public, March 26, 2013 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to …

Secrecy News: DoD Inspector General Has Unrestricted Access to Classified Information — Excellent Baby Step

DOD INSPECTOR GENERAL HAS UNRESTRICTED ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFO A Department of Defense instruction issued on Friday reinforces the policy that the DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG) is to have full access to all records, including classified records, that it needs to perform its function, and that no DoD official other than the Secretary …

Worth a Look: Books on Open Source

2013 Bazzell, Michael (2013).  Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information.  CreateSpace. 4.0 out of 5 stars A Useful Contribution–See the Table of Contents January 30, 2013 Garbutt, John (2013). Building an OpenStack Cloud: From zero to the cloud with open source technologies.  O’Reilly Media. Publication Date: August 22, 2013 There …

Winslow Wheeler: GAO (A Legislative Entity) Plays Courtesan to Lockheed, DoD, and the Congressional Recipients of Lockheed Largesse + F-35 RECAP

DOD is circling the wagons to keep the F-35 propped up in the declining Pentagon budget.  Importantly, as noted by a prime Lockheed mouthpiece offering his thankfulness for it, GAO’s newest report on the F-35 offers a conclusion that the F-35 is on track for improvement–the data notwithstanding.  In point of fact, what the GAO conclusion …