The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The cover story in the February 2010 edition of Middle East Magazine, “Hunting Bin Laden“, leads with the statement that time may be running out for Osama bin Laden. It goes on to say. “Over the last two years or so, the elusive leader of Al Qaeda has seen dozens of his lieutenants and allies …
My good friend Werther has been beavering away again in the US manure pile and this time has resurrected Engels’ theory of False Consciousness to help explain the mismatch between ideology and reality that has become enshrined in contemporary American political psychology. False Consciousness By Werther* “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, …
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For a Serving Elite, Genius–Out of Touch with Non-Elites February 20, 2010 Anne-Marie Slaughter Now that my own book INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability is at the printer am back into reading and really looking forward to catching up with the 25 books on my “to do” shelf. This one jumped to …
Invite your attention to attached — contains a couple of interesting observations about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): “…open source intelligence — catapulting it to primary place for new adversaries and increasingly for the U.S. military — and also rapid organizational learning and assembly of capabilities…” [page 9] “…There are strong indications that Hezbollah made significant …
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COMMENT: IMHO, incredibly irresponsible behavior by UK judicial system. However, I really wonder whether USG will really degrade the special relationship because I suspect it would be cutting our nose off to spite our face. While I think we have clear dominance in some intelligence disciplines and coverages, I also think the UK dances rings …
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“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …
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A biography of the author of this excellent essay can be found here. Phi Beta Iota: When the public disconnects from public policy, policy is made without regard to intelligence. This is one reason we concluded that to save the value of secret intelligence (i.e. prevent its being ignored and manipulated) we needed to create a …
