The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Strongly Recommended by BGen McMaster in Talk at ODNI January 20, 2010 Abdulkader H. Sinno This is one of two books strongly recommended, with deep admiration, by BGen McMaster, USA (Ret) speaking to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on 19 January. The four page trip report on his remarks about improving …
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Dear Pat Robertson, I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it …
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O’s ‘Fixes’ Will Fail:Feeding more fat to obese US intelligence (Ralph Peters) None of these people, including our president, took what almost happened on Christmas seriously — until the public outcry spooked them. To energize the bureaucratic proles, you have to chop off aristocratic heads. But President Obama won’t use the guillotine. He’s protecting incompetents. …
Hot Topics AA: Afghan War Could Spill Over Into Central Asia 12/31/09 AA: Kazakhstan: Kyrgyz secret services are involved in the murder of Gennadyi Pavlyuk 12/30/09 AF: Afghan civilians killed in air raid 12/31/09 EG: Egyptian minister slams Al-Jazeera for ‘instigating civil war’ 01/02/10 IQ: Iraq says more ‘superfields’ up for grabs 12/31/09 IR: Exiled …
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Hot Topics AA: Russia Test-fires ‘Voevoda’ Intercontinental Missile 12/24/09 AF: Taliban issue video of captive US soldier 12/25/09 AF: Troops Secure Former Taliban Ghost Town in Afghanistan 12/25/09 YE: Yemen is growing front in Al Qaida battle 12/23/09 Below the fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime
To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East By SCOTT ATRAN December 13, 2009 Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, John Jay College and the University of Michigan, is the author of the forthcoming ‘Listen to the Devil.’ Confidence is important, but we also have to recognize that …
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Hot Topics AA: Ethiopians Dominate Flood Of Africans to Yemen 12/18/09 AA: Guineans flee to Senegal 12/18/09 AA: Radical Islam meets a buffer in West Africa 12/21/09 AO: Crude rises ahead of OPEC meeting 12/21/09 ER: The Case of Eritrea’s Missing Soccer Team 12/16/09 KE: Obama ignores brutality and corruption in Kenya 12/17/09 NG: Nigeria: …
