The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE 3: Obama summons intelligence chiefs to White House meeting Comment: This is pathetic. No one now serving in the White House is capable of telling the President the truth–that our $75 billion a year is wasted, that the agencies are suffering from 1950’s mindsets with 1970’s technology and security and legal blinders that are …
Research and teaching interests are centered in the following areas: Cognitive and linguistic anthropology, ethnobiology, environmental decision making, categorization and reasoning, evolutionary psychology, anthropology of science (history and philosophy of natural history and natural philosophy); Middle East ethnography and political economy; natural history of Lowland Maya, cognitive and commitment theories of religion, terrorism and foreign …
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sensible memo from BTC: Aviation Security After Detroit INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: Aviation System Security Business Travel Coalition December 27, 2009 By Kevin Mitchell The Christmas attempt by a Nigerian man with PETN (one of the most powerful explosives known) affixed to his body to cause harm to an internationally-originated Delta Air Lines flight on approach to …
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Way cool! First off, the White House is theater. We have no strategy, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not know how to manage, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not know how to produce intelligence (decision-support) for all who have a “need to know.” Until President Barack Obama, whom we pray …
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British student held over alleged airline bomb attempt Nigerian man reportedly linked to al-Qaida in custody after foiled terror attempt on transatlantic flight to Detroit Police identified the suspect as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23. It is understood that he is an engineering student at University College London. One official said the man claimed to …
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Phi Beta Iota: Extremely cool search! Should be combined with a map of Chinese, Turkish, and Brazilian influence in Africa. OSS.Net, Inc. drew on its European allies to provide the tribal maps for Afghanistan and Iraq to Special Forces prior to their going in, and we are still astonished at the complete lack of a …
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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
