Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2487 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Bradley Manning and “true cost” Video (30:01)

For the first time, 25-year-old U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning has admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history. More than a thousand days after he was arrested, Manning testified Thursday before a military court. He said he leaked the classified documents to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks in order to show the American public the “true costs of war.” Reading for more than an hour from a 35-page statement, Manning said: “I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information … this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general.” At the pretrial hearing at Fort Meade military base in Maryland, Manning pleaded guilty to reduced charges on 10 counts, which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. But even if the judge accepts the plea, prosecutors can still pursue a court-martial on the remaining 12 charges. The most serious of those is “aiding the enemy” and carries a possible life sentence. We are joined by Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a lawyer to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. He just returned from attending Manning’s hearing. [includes rush transcript]

ACLU militarized police investigation

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local police agencies requesting information about their SWAT teams, such as how often and for what reasons they're deployed, what types of weapons they use, how often citizens are injured during SWAT raids, and how they're funded. More affiliates may join the effort in the coming weeks.

Additionally, the affiliates will ask for information about drones, GPS tracking devices, how much military equipment the police agencies have obtained through programs run through the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, and how often and for what purpose state National Guards are participating in enforcement of drug laws.

2013/03/072013/03/26

Berto Jongman: June 1, 2013 Deadline Call for Articles: Journal of Strategic Security Issue on Intelligence Analysis, Tradecraft, Training, Education, and Practical Application

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CFP: “Intelligence: Analysis, Tradecraft, Training, Education, and Practical Application” Journal of Strategic Security

Deadline: June 1, 2013

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The Journal of Strategic Security (JSS), a publication of Henley-Putnam University, seeks manuscripts for an upcoming issue on intelligence analytic tradecraft, training, education, and practical application for the Fall 2013 issue, Vol. 6, No. 3.

The Fall 2013 issue of JSS is a venue for authors to share ideas and exchange information about best practices and lessons learned in the field of intelligence studies. How are intelligence skills applied in different contexts and industries? Are intelligence-related skills best taught in the classroom or “caught” through on-the-job training, and how much does the answer depend on the desired outcome of the instruction?

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2013/03/072013/03/26

Berto Jongman: Defense Science Board Report on Baby Steps Toward Resilient Military C4I Systems

Defense Science Board, IO Impotency

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Defense Science Board Task Force Report:

Resilient Military Systems and the Advanced Cyber Threat

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After conducting an 18-month study, this Task Force concluded that the cyber threat is serious and that the United States cannot be confident that our critical Information Technology (IT) systems will work under attack from a sophisticated and well-resourced opponent utilizing cyber capabilities in combination with all of their military and intelligence capabilities (a “full spectrum” adversary). While this is also true for others (e.g. Allies, rivals, and public/private networks), this Task Force strongly believes the DoD needs to take the lead and build an effective response to measurably increase confidence in the IT systems we depend on (public and at the same time decrease a would-be attacker's confidence in the effectiveness of their capabilities to compromise DoD systems. This conclusion was developed upon several factors, including the success adversaries have had penetrating our networks; the relative ease that our Red Teams have in disrupting, or completely beating, our forces in exercises using exploits available on the Internet; and the weak cyber hygiene position of DoD networks and systems. The Task Force believes that the recommendations of this report create the basis for astrategy to address this broad and pervasive threat.

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2013/03/072021/03/22

Mongoose: 20130309 Added Transcripts for Mrs. Kay Griggs Interviews — “German Disease” Across USMC & US Army Special Operations + Treason RECAP

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Military

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ON GOOD GAYS AND BAD GAYS. This is going to be controversial. We distinguish between normal gays who want to come out and be accepted as loving members of society, and sado-masochistic neo-Nazi gays who consider themselves above the law and desperately want to remain in the closet. Our views are well summarized by Robert Steele in his short commentary at Review: The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party. Our focus is on restoring intelligence with integrity to every element of society. In no way do we seek to diminish the human rights, spirituality, and general goodness of the openly gay community, nor do we equate being gay with rejecting God [however, the “existentialist” neo-Nazi sadistic gays do reject God as well as the rule of law]. We are not pursuing this story — it is up to the US military and the majority of the good people in the US military, to clean their own house. This is simply our effort to make this an issue that can no longer be ignored.

Kay Griggs: Colonel’s Wife Tell-All Interview 4-part Series Uncut Original Videos- Part 1

“They get rid of the good guys. The Marine Corps are the assassins for the Mob. The military is run by the Mob. The military IS the Mob.” … ” They took with them the most perverted aspects of Nazi Germany and brought them over to the United States.” — Mrs. Kay Griggs on How the Government Works

Warning Notice: There is a clash of civilizations throughout. Kay Griggs is a deeply Christian woman who married a Marine Corps Colonel that was bi-sexual, a drunk, and a special operator in a clique heavily engaged in illegal and false flag operations. Some of what she takes to be part of the total libertine covertly homosexual society is “normal” global male licentiousness — competing interpretations of “Tailhook” are a good example. At root, however, this appears to be the single best expose of the intersection of elite pedophilia, Army/Marine Corps illegal and false flag activities, and the corruption of the Army/Marine Corps flag officer corps.

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2013/03/072013/03/07

Review (Guest): The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

5 Star, Complexity & Resilience, Culture, Research, Economics, Environment (Solutions), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Priorities, True Cost & Toxicity, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution

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David Bollier and Silke Helfrich (editors)

We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of “progress” and governance. In short, how they've built their commons. In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources – often known as market enclosures – while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale – but most of all, it's about individual commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources. “This fine collection makes clear that the idea of the Commons is fully international, and increasingly fully worked-out. If you find yourself wondering what Occupy wants, or if some other world is possible, this pragmatic, down-to-earth, and unsentimental book will provide many of the answers.” – Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future

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2013/03/072013/03/26

Michel Bauwens: The Structural Communality of the Commons

P2P / Panarchy

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The Structural Communality of the Commons

Thus, commons structurally generate responsibility on the part of their participants for preserving the resource and the collective relationships, while markets generally do not. Commoners are in charge of shaping the social relationships involved; therefore, they can take responsibility for their actions. However, this also entails their responsibility to do so. In the commons, it is possible to deal with conflicted goals and varying needs before taking action. In the market, however, action comes first, and then the consequences are dealt with later. The market is seldom capable of mediating between different needs and identifying responsible solutions because maximum profits is the touchstone for choice.

Text of an essay by Stefan Meretz of Keimform.de.

Originally published in The Wealth of the Commons (eds. David Bollier and Silke Helfrich; Levellers Press, Amherst, MA, pp. 28–34). License: CC-by 3.0.). This is a version without references.

Stefan Meretz:

The commons are as varied as life itself, and yet everyone involved with them shares common convictions. If we wish to understand these convictions, we must realize what commons mean in a practical sense, what their function is and always has been. That in turn includes that we concern ourselves with people. After all, commons or common goods are precisely not merely “goods,” but a social practice that generates, uses and preserves common resources and products. In other words, it is about the practice of commons, or commoning, and therefore also about us. The debate about the commons is also a debate about images of humanity. So let us take a step back and begin with the general question about living conditions.

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2013/03/072014/01/31

Graphic: Periodic Table of “Terrorist” Groups

05 Civil War, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy

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The Department of State currently labels 52 groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), and strategic communications firm Navanti has put together a handy graphic to illustrate America's view of the global terror threat.

Drawing from State Department and academic sources, Navanti presents the periodic table of terrorist groups, which details the size, scope, and level of activity of each group:

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Slide: periodic table of terrorists

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