The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Precedent works: Project for a New American Century Post-Event Illuminations: 2006 Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror 2007 Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years” From Niels Groeneveld at Facebook: VIDEO: 9/11 Attack or Godsend (German and British Ministers) Decision to Invade Afghanistan …
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Failure, across the board…..implications of this for domestic security abound…..where has all the money gone? Report: Nation’s Top Cops Say U.S. Counterterror Effort Is Lacking Ten years after 9/11, top cops in the nation’s biggest cities feel there are still significant gaps in the intelligence and analysis they receive about terrorism, even as the homegrown …
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PRINT VERSION (Memorandum to SSCI & HPSCI with Attached Post) SHORT URL FOR THIS SPECIFIC POST: http://tinyurl.com/Clapper-Steele For information. SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 How 9/11 Transformed the Intelligence Community It’s no longer about ‘need to know.’ Our guiding principle is ‘responsibility to share.’ By James R. Clapper It has been a decade since our nation suffered …
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Had fun with this post. Working on getting the thinking on this right. Tough to do. ________________________ Hollow, bankrupt states and crisis of capitalism is not a “dystopian future” if it is actually happening now. With almost hourly updates. I coined the term, “hollow …
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This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …
What Has Been the Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars? Email from Winslow Wheeler This week, as the media runs its displays on America ten years after the 9/11 attacks, there will be references to the dollar costs. A figure some will use is the one trillion dollars President Obama cited as for the war in Iraq. …
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William Poundstone 2.0 out of 5 stars Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We Can Do About It), February 12, 2008 The book is extremely well-written, and a joy to read. It would be highly recommended, except for two fatal flaws discussed below. Poundstone’s latest book deals with an issue that is …
