The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Useful distraction from the real fires in DoD.
Obama defends secret NSA surveillance programs – as it happened
Spy chief strongly defends surveillance, calls it legal
Timeline of revelations about US domestic spying
US intelligence boss calls for criminal investigation over surveillance program leaks
White House Says Congress Was Briefed 13 Times on Surveillance Programs
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Nobody does this. It is precisely what the Director of OMB should be demanding, and it is precisely what the Open Source Agency (OSA) would do if the corrupt powers that be were not so set against anything that provides the truth on every threat, every policy, every demographic, in a coherent holistic manner with true cost economics embedded and ethical evidence-based decision-support as the outcome.
Beyond Whole of Government lies the Smart Nation concept that harnesses the distributed intelligence of all eight tribes (academic, civil society including labor and religion, commerce, government at all levels, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit), and beyond that — and probably coming first — lies Open Source Everything (OSE) as the technical solution, and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) as the human solution.
Here are a few of the seminal references on Whole of Government Intelligence:
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N2-04, “NATO Open Source Intelligence Course” (NS) (This is a two week course from Aug 2013)
Aim: To educate NATO and national intelligence analysts about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations, techniques, requirements and procedures
Academic Course Guide 2013-03-27 [all courses, titles and short descriptions only]
One Page Course Description (repeated below)
N2-04 NATO Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Course
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Recovery? No. Continued looting by the 1%? Yes.
American Households On Foodstamps Climb To New Record
Yesterday, briefly, we were confused by the eruption in the stock market following a not too bad sub-200K nonfarm payrolls number. Because we know that in the New Normal bad is always good, no matter what the well-coifed TV pundit du jour tells you. Then we remembered that yesterday is when the USDA releases its monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program data, i.e. Americans on Foodstamps.
It was here that the ramp was perfectly explained, because while the bad (for stocks of course) data was that individual foodstamps recipients rose by 170K in March – if just a whisker below all time highs – it was the number of American households on foodstamps, which rose to a new all time high of 23,116,441 (each collecting an average of $274.30 per month) that perfectly explained the Dow Jones' 200 point surge higher: the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-classes to the 1% continues without a hiccup.
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Syria Regime Change – Blowback on Steroids
Jim Dean with Franklin Lamb
Veterans Today, 7 June 2013
Franklin Lamb has the best piece below that I have seen on the Jewish/Israeli Lobby panic at the disaster which their anticipated slowly roasting regime change for Syria has been. But Frank either skipped or ran out of room to credit what the real panic is about.
Israel’s nuclear bunker buster attack (with a mini-nuke warhead) has turned out to be a shot yourself in the head moment to the Radical Zios.
It opened the door wide open for the Russians to return to the Med and mover an air defense into Syria which will eliminate Israel’s long history of wiping their feet on their neighbor’s air space.
Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, Vegucated follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured by tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover the hidden sides of animal agriculture that make them wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. This entertaining documentary showcases the rapid and at times comedic evolution of three people who discover they can change the world one bite at a time.
Also see:
+ Official site
+ Food overview from the Woodstock NY Animal Sanctuary
+ FoodIsPower.org
+ Documentary: Forks Over Knives (also search re-configure.org)
+ Documentary: Genetic Roulette
+ USDA's distribution of food dollar (foodpolitics.com)
+ Edible Schoolyard Project
Noteworthy: The United States Department of Agriculture every 5 years designs the food pyramid for all Americans. In as much as all officers of the USDA have previously held executive positions with the cattle, dairy, pork and egg industry, it is not surprising that each new pyramid contains the foods that guarantees millions of Americans will perish each year (source).
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Visiting Professor and was First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities and has been called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam” by the BBC. Regularly interviewed by CNN, NPR, BBC, and Al-Jazeera, he has appeared several times on Oprah, and has also been a guest of The Daily Show and Nickelodeon. For the fall term 2012, Ambassador Ahmed was the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and Visiting Fellow of Jesus College.
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