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2012/10/282012/10/28

Rickard Falkvinge: Wendy Cockcroft on The Next Big Battles – Secret Trade Agreements Bad for People

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Commerce, Corporations, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, IO Impotency

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The Next Big Battles

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT

Activism – Wendy Cockcroft: Since ACTA was decisively beaten on 4th July 2012, the first time a free trade agreement had been scuppered by the people of EU member nations, the big business lobbyists have taken heed and resolved to change in order to be more successful. Hence the secrecy. CETA and the EU-India trade agreement are the next big battles. We need your help.

The term “Free Trade Agreement” is a misnomer. The idea is to remove barriers, taxes, and tariffs, but since people can end up being shackled to a multinational corporation’s agenda, the only freedom is in the ability of the corporations to operate in ways that often end up utterly destroying local economies or harnessing law enforcement agencies to protect their interests. The worst part is that we the taxpayers have to foot the bill for our losses of national sovereignty and civil rights. We saw ACTA off in July, but there are two more major agreements to deal with and we need to be ready to contact our M.E.P.s when the time comes.

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2012/10/28

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Rickard Falkvinge

Alpha E-H, Public Intelligence

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Rickard ”Rick” Falkvinge (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfalkˌvɪŋɛ]), born Dick Augustsson on 21 January 1972 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish IT entrepreneur known as the founder and first party leader of the Swedish Pirate Party.^[1] He is currently a political evangelist with the party, spreading the ideas across the world.^[2] He resides in |Sollentuna north of Stockholm.

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2012/10/282012/10/28

Reference: National Intelligence Program (NIP) – and Questions Not Asked

Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Officers Call

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Reference: National Intelligence Program (NIP)

Does not include the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) that is between $30 and $50 billion a year.

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2012/10/27

Marcus Aurelius: Secretary Harold Brown on Cutting Service Secretaries

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

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Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius

Dr. Brown paints Service Secretaries, in the terms my father would have used, as “spare gear.”)

A Better Place To Cut

To protect military programs, get rid of redundant service secretaries

By Harold Brown

Washington Post, October 19, 2012, Pg. 21

The four military services in the Defense Department differ in their roles, missions and skills — which are good reasons to retain their separate identities. But as the duties of the uniformed service chiefs have converged with those of the civilian secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force, the latter have become redundant appendages. Eliminating those positions would save money and streamline management, a good example for the rest of government. In today’s climate of fiscal austerity, cutting overhead is better than cutting defense programs.

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2012/10/272012/12/03

Eagle: What SitComs Say About American Voters

Cultural Intelligence

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What sitcoms say about American voters

By Tim Stanley University of Oxford

BBC News, 26 October 2012

If all you saw of America was what you see on the news, you'd think it was an incredibly angry and divided country. The presidential election offers a stark choice between two different philosophies of government, and the polls suggest that the country is torn down the middle over which one is correct.

But there's also plenty to be learned from America's comedy output. Written to attract as many people as possible, US sitcoms don't just succeed by being funny but also by being real. As a result, they do a good job of capturing the true complexity of people's opinions.

On cultural issues, for example, they show that much has changed in the last 10 years. But some traditions and values remain that are as American as apple pie.

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After the “credit crunch”, the equivalent of an entire generation's wealth was lost. The sitcoms have touched upon the new anxieties. ABC's The Middle features a middle-aged couple raising three kids in middle-America, on a middle-income.

In one episode, the husband loses his job and the family have to downgrade their lifestyle. They go shopping in a budget supermarket that advertises, “Slightly Off Veal” and “Ronald Reagan Inaugural Jellybeans”.

When one of the kids asks if this means the family is now officially poor, the mum says, “No … we're just trying something new called living within our means.” Horrified, the teenaged boy replies, “You mean we've been living outside our means?! Oh, God…”

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2012/10/272012/11/12

Gordon Duff: An Alternative View of the Benghazi False Flag Murder of US Ambassador

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call

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Imaginary Planes, Imaginary CIA Armies, All Invented as Election Ploy
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By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor (with Top US Intel Specialists)

Veterans Today, 26 October 2012

A trained team of up to 120 [foreign] special forces personnel with radio jammers and heavy weapons killed the US ambassador. There were only two America CIA employees in Libya. The news stories are all fabrications.

The killing of Ambassador Stephens in Benghazi has become a ghoulish election ploy played by Fox News, Huffington Post and others. All are printing and broadcasting conjecture, total falsehood and the usual biased and unreliable garbage they are famous for.

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The ambush at Benghazi required careful coordination. There was no Al Qaeda involvement and there has never been any history of Al Qaeda on the ground in Libya. Moreover, intelligence insiders use the term “Al Qaeda” when looking for money from “congressional critters” too stupid to know that the CIA has always run “Al Qaeda” as a way of avoiding explaining why dozens of small organizations and even friendly intelligence groups will, for obscure reasons, attack American targets.

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2012/10/272012/10/27

Berto Jongman: Kristan Wheaton on The New Human Intelligence

Crowd-Sourcing, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy

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Two pieces . Another view, a variation of Stefan Dedijer in 1992, “know who knows;” and Robert Steele in 1995 if not earlier, “do not send a spy where a schoolboy can go”

Top 5 Things Only Spies Used To Do (But Everyone Does Now)

#5 — Have a cover story.
#4 — Shake a tail.
#3 — Use passwords and encrypt data.
#2 — Have an agent network.
#1 — Use satellites.

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Rio Tinto Twitter — Click on Image to Enlarge

The New HUMINT?

EXTRACT:

Only an expert case officer with deep contacts can hope to be able to respond to the wide variety of requests for information. In today's fast moving, crisis-of-the-day type world, the question becomes “Where can I find good sources of information … on this particular topic … quickly?”

Twitter to the rescue!

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