The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
AT CIA, CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SECRET When the Central Intelligence Agency established a Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009, it drew fierce opposition from congressional Republicans who disputed the need for an intelligence initiative on this topic. But now there is a different, and possibly better, reason to doubt the value …
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When a system is so slosh with money that it does not know what its costs are, it is time to take serious action. But what do you do when no one cares? The US Air Force misreports, even to itself (and to Congress and OSD), the cost to operate and support its own aircraft. …
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Combining Crowdsourced Satellite Imagery Analysis with Crisis Reporting: An Update on Syria September 19, 2011 by Patrick Meier Members of the the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) Satellite Team are currently tagging the location of hundreds of Syrian tanks and other heavy mili-tary equipment on the Tomnod micro-tasking platform using very recent high-resolution satellite imagery …
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More lies…big ones. Defense contractors launch campaign to end military spending cuts Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2011 Seeking to whip up public support for what’s expected to be a hard-fought budget battle in Congress, a group of defense contractors launched a lobbying campaign urging an end to cuts in military spending. The campaign, named …
The Cost-Savings Fantasy David Isenberg Huffington Post, 9/15/2011 Sometimes it is difficult to decide what to write about in the world of private military and security contracting issues, as there are usually a few different stories in the news on any given day that are relevant. Today, however, I don’t have that problem as there …
This item is from a very astute libertarian writer (he has a fantastic web site!), Justin Raimondo, and this column offers the best explanation or theory I have seen as to why BATF has given gazillions of guns to a Mexican drug cartel. And it’s not due to government incompetence. A brilliant analysis, and oddly, …
9-11: Incestuous Amplification Highjacks the American OODA Loop Mark Danner has written a brilliant exegesis (also attached below) of how the collective leadership of the United States dragged an entire nation off its moral rails in its reaction to 9-11. It is long but well worth the reading investment. While Danner does not use the …
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