The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pentagon Shifts Its Strategy To Small-Scale Warfare By August Cole and Yochi J. Dreazen Wall Street Journal January 30, 2010 Pg. 4 The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense contractors and powerful lawmakers uneasy with the Pentagon’s growing focus on smaller-scale, guerilla warfare. In particular, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has come to …
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This post has four parts: 1) Chuck Spinney’s long commentary; 2) The original article with attachments from TruthDig; 3) a ripost making three points about Chuck’s comments; 4) Chuck’s answer and a short comment from Robert Steele The Eikenberry Cables Turn Sun Tzu on His Head: Domestic Politics and the Art of Asymmetrical Bureaucratic War …
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More Than Espionage: Open-source intelligence should be part of solution Washington Times January 27, 2010 Pg. B3 By Andrew M. Borene Here’s some food for thought: White House policymakers and Congress can help develop an increasingly robust national intelligence capacity by investing new money in the pursuit of a centralized open-source intelligence (OSINT) …
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GeoChat emerged from a simple concept – can I send an SMS message and see it on a map? From there the concept has evolved, and geochat has become a project to build a collaboration platform from the lowest common denominator communication tools, considering as highest priorities the needs of workers of humanitarian aid, international …
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NeoOpticon: the EU Security-Industrial Complex (Transnational Institute) As the title communicates. Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card (WMD Commission) Failing grade in isolation from all the more pressing threats (poverty, disease, environment). Al Qaeda Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat: Hype or Reality? (Harvard) More focus on the symptom instead of the problem (US …
Crowds seeking aid in Haiti met with pepper spray and rubber bullets Desperate crowds have overwhelmed peacekeepers trying to deliver aid. The World Food Programme says that Port-au-Prince represents the greatest logistical challenge it has ever faced “They’re not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat,” Fernando Soares, a Brazilian army colonel, said. “The …
Core Reference Note Social versus Economic Gap January 26, 2010 Axel Dreher The paperback is cheaper and recommended over the hardcover, but for decidiing to buy purposes, visit the hardcover to use Inside the Book to examine the Table of Contents and other sample views. For some reason Amazon does not transfer Inside the Book …
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