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James Madison: US Security Budget a Nightmare
Madison’s Nightmare: How Much Should We Spend for National Insecurity? Chuck Spinney, FEB 3, 2011 The Atlantic (for James Fallows) Read entire reference piece…. Brother Chuck makes three key points: 1. He quotes Madison, as we have, on the importance of public knowledge as the basis for the Republic keeping the government accountable and in …
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Afghanistan, Israel, Egypt, USA–No Legitimacy
Anyone who thinks we ought to stay in Afghanistan and that the Afghanis want us to stay should carefully read and think about the information in this important report. Chuck Spinney King David’s War Petraeus has a new plan to finish the war: Double down on a failed strategy David Hastings, Rolling Stone, 02/02/11 Read …
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AFIO Selected Headlines: Google, Woolsey, Hayden
Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA. Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman …
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Sorry about the crummy search results. Here are the two core graphics plus some related references. We cannot say enough good things about the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army. If Army flag officers paid more attention to the sound thinking coming out of there, and kept their integrity in their dealings with …
Women of Washington–The Lunacy Continues
(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …
Muslim Demographics–Dominant by 2050)
Muslim Demographics (7:31) 2.11 children per family required to maintain a culture. Muslims births outpacing Christians including Catholics Muslim immigration plus immigrant birthrate swamping West Phi Beta Iota: When governments lack a strategic analytic model and a holistic as well as honest planning, programming, and policy process, they fail to provide for culture and education …
