The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
While many of you criticize WaPo, believe this is a real and growing problem within Army. I have read both Ward and O’Reilly DoDIG reports — shocking. IMHO, if 5 percent of what’s in those reports is 10 percent true, those two generals should be going to Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth. Yet both cases have …
Reference: National Intelligence Program (NIP) Does not include the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) that is between $30 and $50 billion a year.
Drones: The Morality of War From the Sky By Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 11, 2012 President Obama, who is putatively a civil libertarian—or, at the very least, the preferred candidate of most civil libertarians—has achieved something remarkable over the course of his term. He has led an expansive war against America’s enemies using lethal …
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Libyan democracy hijacked The Libyans clearly indicated in July what kind of government they wanted, and who should be in it. But things are not working out that way and the security situation is deteriorating by Patrick Haimzadeh, Le Monde Diplomatique Nothing is going to plan in Libya. It took the death of the …
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Today I had the pleasure of sitting down for a second time with Dr. Greg Newby, director of one of America’s top supercomputing centers, this one in Alaska and operated by the University of Alaska. He has some ideas about Arctic information collection, prcoessing, analysis, and SHARING that are breath-taking; I attribute this in part …
Huh? 28 Aug 2012 US Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East? Phi Beta Iota: The alleged National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) probably does not exist. This appears at first glance to be a really excellent covert operation aimed to slamming the Israeli’s back before the election–we must remember that similar briefings have been given about Saudi …
The mantra is: Nothing is too good for our boys in combat; that means our equipment is expensive but also so effective it is the master of the battlefield. The cost is actually even more than you are told and the demonstrated performance is far less. There are many examples of this bad bargain (extremely …
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