The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Security Obsession Drives 100 Scientists from NASA Top Security Clearance Needed to Help Steer the Curiosity Rover? EXTRACT 1: Thanks to the zealous wackos at the Department of Homeland Security, back in 2007 during the latter part of the Bush administration an order went out that all workers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena–an …
ROBERT STEELE: “Intelligence without integrity is not intelligence.” For some time now the following post, recently re-titled, has been the primary outcome of the frequent searches for the word “integrity.” 2010 Robert Steele: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP Leadership ethics is a two part challenge. Bosses are not leaders, merely slave-drivers, and often …
Two things seem clear to me: the Pentagon budget is going down, and pretty much no one in Washington wants to impose the three fundamental reforms needed to enable DOD to prosper in an era of lower budgets. I explain my point of view in a new article in Foreign Policy and below. EXTRACT: They are …
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UPDATE 2 Dec 2012: Wright update, Steele update, at end of original post. As received: On the Linkedin Group, “Intelligence and Security”, a member started a discussion on open source intelligence using a quote from your [forthcoming chapter], “The Craft of Intelligence.” Davidson (a self proclaimed “former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer”) made such a wildly ignorant …
Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world’s food crisis? Philipp Saumweber is creating a miracle in the barren Australian outback, growing tonnes of fresh food. So why has he fallen out with the pioneering environmentalist who invented the revolutionary system? Jonathan Margolis The Observer, Saturday 24 November 2012 The scrubby …
Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT: 2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …
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Beyond Regulators’ Grasp How Shadow Banks Rule the World By Martin Hesse and Anne Seith Spiegel, 11/14/2012 Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to …
