Journal: Out of Touch with Reality III

Chuck Spinney Sends… America’s diplomatic recipe for winning the hearts and minds of “furriners” in the 21st Century: Mix –  Blind unreasoning fear with the Domestic politics of privatizing embassy protection and the Domestic politics of huge construction contracts into neat grand-strategic soufflé, then bake it in the domestic political-economic oven of heated by the coals of the …

AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 02 Nov 09

Hot Topics CD: Protest in DRC over insecurity 11/01/09 CF:  Children bearing brunt of Central African Republic’s troubles, says UNICEF offic 10/21/09 DZ: Algeria: Al-Qaeda failing to attract recruits govt claims 10/30/09 ET: Can Ethiopia’s Electoral Code Guarantee Fair Elections? 11/01/09 ET: Ethiopia: 3 soldiers defect to Eritrea 10/31/09 GM: Former military police commander calls …

Journal: Ron Paul as Truth-Teller & Weak Signal

Dr. Ron Paul calls Obama’s H1N1 swine flu program a ‘total failure’ Rep. Ron Paul, the 11-term Republican congressman from Texas who mobilized millions of supporters and about $35 million for his unsuccessful presidential run last year, has added the federal government’s faltering flu immunization program to his list of things worthy of denunciation. A …

Journal: Abnormal Abductive Advances

‘Impossible’ Device Could Propel Flying Cars, Stealth Missiles David Hambling October 29, 2009 The Emdrive is an electromagnetic drive that would generate thrust from a closed system — “impossible” say some experts. To critics, it’s flat-out junk science, not even worth thinking about. But its inventor, Roger Shawyer, has doggedly continued his work. As Danger Room …

Search: bhopal, yes men, ethics

Bhopal, Yes Men, Ethics. Absolutely correct juxtaposition of terms.  What governments and corporations do everyday to their own citizens is vastly more lethal than any possible combination of “terrorist/freedom fighter” actions.  See especiallyThe Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters and alsoActs of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in …

Handbook: Harvard on Congress & Intelligence

Confrontation or Collaboration? Congress and the Intelligence Community Memorandum, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School July 2009 Authors: Eric Rosenbach, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Aki J. Peritz CONTENTS Click any of the links below to read and download the individual memos online. You can …