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2011/09/21

Marcus Aurelius: US Intelligence Still Ignorant in Languages

Nothing changes…. US spy agencies ‘struggle with post-9/11 languages’ Despite intense focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East in the last decade, U.S. spy agencies are still lacking in language skills needed to talk to locals, translate intercepted intelligence and analyse data, according to top intelligence officials. Telegraph, 20 September 2011 The Sept. 11, …

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2011/08/272013/08/02

RECAP Directory (List)

All prior RECAPs plus Series CLOSED below the line. Updated 2 August 2013.

2011/08/212011/08/21

Chuck Spinney: Dysfunctional West Sharply Unstable

Item 1 is an insightful essay by Patrick Seale outlining the common characteristics of the political instabilities and revolutionary pressures now sweeping Europe and the Middle East. Although Seale uses the term Global Intifada to describe these instabilities, the term Intifada evolved out of the Palestinian struggle against occupation. He suggests the instabilities may be …

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2011/04/192011/05/11

Review (Guest): Liberty Defined–50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul

Ron Paul Paul’s Greatest, Most Daring Book Yet A. Maheshwari April 19, 2011 Ron Paul continues the noble tradition of founders and thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Burke, James Burnham and Patrick Buchanan in social-political conditions of the 21st Century. The book is written in lucid, vital and free flowing style without any convoluted …

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2011/04/14

USA Has Become Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

Published on Monday, April 11, 2011 by TruthDig.com Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System by Chris Hedges Note: Truthdig server overwhelmed. This is the Common Dreams reprint. A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless …

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2011/03/012011/03/01

Freedom Box Reflections

Autonomous Internet [or Autonomous Free Distributed Internet for the elderly] is the new meme in town, inspired by the role of Facebook and Twitter as well as the rapidly developed Internet Work-Arounds that were developed by a huge network of great-hearted citizens. Freedom Box is an idea, not a capability, but it holds enormous potential, …

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2011/02/022011/02/02

AFIO Selected Headlines: Google, Woolsey, Hayden

Google Comes Under Fire for ‘Secret’ Relationship with NSA. Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman …

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