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2011/11/082011/11/08

Winslow Wheeler: Military Spending versus Competence

Washington Post Joins Hysterical Defense Budget Rhetoric Center for Defense Information, 7 November 2011 Monday, November 7, the Washington Post editorial board published its take on the extreme rhetoric the country has been hearing on the defense budget since Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta starting talking about the “doomsday mechanism” that would reduce defense spending. …

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2011/11/062011/11/06

Reference: The 99% Declaration

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson The 99% Declaration WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging …

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2011/11/04

NIGHTWATCH: Asian Naval Developments

Japan-India: Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony and Japanese Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa agreed to hold their first bilateral naval exercises in 2012, according to Japanese Defense Ministry officials. Ichikawa said deepening bilateral defense ties between Tokyo and New Delhi will lead to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. Antony said India’s relations with Japan …

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2011/11/032011/11/04

Marcus Aurelius: Death Notice for Counterintelligence

Combat Commanders Gain Control Of Counterintelligence Ops By Carlo Munoz AOL Defense, November 1, 2011 Washington: The Pentagon is offering field commanders control of counterintelligence operations to cope with the never-ceasing efforts by countries such as China, Iran and Israel to gain access to classified information and technology. Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Mike Vickers …

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2011/11/02

Reference: System D – The Global Black Market

The Shadow Superpower Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world’s fastest growing economy — and its future. Robert Neuwirth Foreign Policy, 28 October 2011 It wasn’t a matter of technology. David is not an inventor or an engineer, and his insights into his country’s electrical problems had nothing to do with …

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2011/11/022011/11/02

Reference: Why Spy? The Uses and Misuses of Intelligence

Search led to this. Thank you. Why Spy? The Uses and Misuses of Intelligence by Stanley Kober Stanley Kober is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Executive Summary America’s intelligence agencies should devote their resources to the most serious security threats, principally international terrorism and adverse political trends. Instead, the …

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2011/11/01

Mini-Me: From Arab Spring to Death of the US Empire

‘Arab Spring is about controlling Eurasia’ Includes Video (12:04) The ultimate goal of the US is to take the resources of Africa and Middle East under military control to block economic growth in China and Russia, thus taking the whole of Eurasia under control, author and historian William F. Engdahl reveals. The crisis with the …

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