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Marcus Aurelius: DoD Tries to Rip 3/4 Billion Out of Health Care – Panetta Caught and Challenged by Congress on Integrity & Intelligence

Communities of Practice, Corruption, Peace Intelligence
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Looks like Congress has caught DoD in a credibility and integrity breach:
  • For years, DoD — including the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Service Chiefs, have been crying poormouth on military health care and trying to use military beneficiaries as cash cows to fund what should be 100% taxpayer-funded, specifically lifetime health care to career military personnel.
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  • Now, DoD comes to Congress saying that they have $708 million dollars extra in their health care accounts that they wish to “reprogram” to unspecified “higher priorities.”
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  • Government Executive magazine lays out the story, first below.  Military Officers Association of America provides the supporting documentation, the DoD reprogramming request (second below) and a letter to SECDEF from a bunch of curious Congressmen (third below).
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Michel Bauwens: 97% Owned – Documentary, UK Focus, Behind Bank Curtain, Deep Look at the Monetary System

Economics/True Cost, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
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97% Owned – Monetary Reform documentary – Directors Cut

97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process.

YouTube (2:10:23)  97% Owned – Monetary Reform documentary – Directors Cut

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NIGHTWATCH: Russia Expands, Syria Festers, Syrian Kurds Evolve, Turkey Freaks Out — USA Still Leads Amateur Theater While Israel Plays with Fire

02 Diplomacy, 10 Security, 11 Society
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Russia: For the record. The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Vice Admiral Chirkov said today that Moscow is involved in talks toward establishing naval bases in Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles.

Comment: This is the first public notice of any plan to build more bases.

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20120727 Open Source Everything Highlights

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Open Source Everything

TWITTER HASH: #openall

ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL

ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT

THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele

THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:  All Opens Below Line  Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost

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David Isenberg: President Wants What IC Cannot Give – With Comment by Robert Steele

Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Knowledge, Politics
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President Obama Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Improve Intel Monitoring: Sez Head of White House Communications Agency

WASHINGTON: When the Presidential Daily Briefing occurs, a top intelligence official traditionally hands the president a folder with a sheaf of paper inside. The president may read what's inside or have it presented by the intelligence official. Then comes question time, when the chief executive and commander in chief can ask how reliable a source is or question the assumptions of an analysis he's just read.

But that will change. The president and his top officials want and will get a single mobile device allowing them to access highly classified and unclassified data wherever they are. The early fruits of the intelligence community's early efforts to do that are visible in the photo above. It shows President Obama in the Oval Office on January 31 using a technically neutered tablet as part of the Presidential Daily Briefing.

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A single device is the Holy Grail for the intelligence community and senior government officials, but it will be some time before it happens, the colonel said. In the near term, the White House hopes to issue two devices: one for classified and another for unclassified communications. It is coordinating with the Defense Department and the National Security Agency to ensure access to secure defense communications networks intelligence grade cryptographic algorithms.

Read full article.

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16-17 August 2012 London The Global Summit (Occupyish)

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Liberation Technology, Mobile
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The Global Summit 2012
In the new global economy, innovation happens in diverse sectors.
The Global Summit is where it all comes together.
As the Olympics come to a close (on August 12), we’ll begin linking social innovators with the teams and technologies they need to create rippling social and economic impact. Be part of it!

The Global Summit 2012 Biennial Meeting :: Aug 16 & 17, 2012

*Main Venue Address:  200 Aldersgate, St. Paul’s, London EC1A 4HD

*Benefit soiree August 15 held off-site (private location TBA).

Time & Dates:

  • Daily Registration, AM Tea & Danish – 8-9am
  • Thursday August 16th – Program Begins (Sharp Start) 9am – 9pm
  • Friday August 17th – Program 9am – 6pm

Delegate registration includes:

  • 2 days of hands on solutions in action with other thought-leaders
  • 2 Full Meals (Sustainable Vegan Cuisine) per day August 16 & 17
  • 3 breaks per day, with tea and snacks
  • Special Workshops and networking events
  • Access to collaboration & networking software
  • Full training in 7 Stages to Sustainability (at Summit and online)

Summit Home Page

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2012 Sheddiing Light on the Secret World – Review of Hamilton Bean’s No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence

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PDF (5 pages):  IJIC STEELE on BEAN Review NO MORE SECRETS

Shedding Light on the Secret World

Robert David Steele

Hamilton Bean, No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence (Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2011, 218 pp. $49.95.

Robert Steele's review at Amazon with quotes

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IJIC), Volume 25 Number 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 634-638.

Robert David Steele (Vivas) entered on active duty with the United States government in 1976, holding full clearances until 2006.  Since 1988 he has been perhaps the most ardent proponent of intelligence reform, with an emphasis on multinational information sharing and sense-making, in conjunction with a greater reliance on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).  Mr. Steele is the former Chief Executive Officer of OSS.Net, Inc. and the volunteer Chief Executive Officer of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c(3) public charity.