The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, appearing on CNN with Fareed Zakaria today, Sunday, 24 January 2010 at 1300, has just turned in the single most brilliant and statemanlike precise (on Haiti) that we have been privileged to witness in over a decade. We’ve been down on Brzezinski during that period because he has not given up his compulsion …
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CIA and Intelligence Community Mythologies Saturday 23 January 2010 by: Melvin A. Goodman It is time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the CIA and the intelligence community. Last month’s operational and intelligence failures led to the deaths of seven CIA officers in Afghanistan and might have resulted in nearly 300 deaths on a …
Originally created by Dr. Mark Lowenthal, then with OSS.Net, Inc. and since modified, this slide, combined with Graphic: OSINT and Missing Information, depicts the challenge. What most do not understand is these two facts: 1. Open Source Information (OSIF) is not the same as Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). The latter is deliberately discovered, discriminated, distilled, …
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Commandant: Marine Corps Seeks Solutions to Naval Surface Fires ‘Void’ In a recent article from “Inside the Navy.com”, the Marine Corps expressed continued concern for the lack of naval surface fires support that only the DDG-1000 offers. According to this published report, Marine Corps Commandant, Gen. James Conway, referred to the truncation of the DDG-1000 …
Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful “A sweeping visionary yet highly pragmatic book! Beth Noveck concretely shows how to leverage the participatory nature of web 2.0 technologies to build a new kind of participatory democracy and a smart, lean government. She speaks from experience. A must read …
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TO SAVE HAITI, FIRE GEN. “BROWNIE” KEEN, START AIR DROPS, CANCEL THE DEBT, AND KICK OUT THE IMF By Webster G. Tarpley Washington, DC, January 17, 2010 — Just over five days or 120 hours after a major earthquake hit the area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it is increasingly clear that the US approach to organizing …
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When Haitian Ministers Take a 50 Percent Cut of Aide Money It’s Called “Corruption,” When NGOs Skim 50 Percent It’s Called “Overhead” Crushing Haiti, Now as Always By PATRICK COCKBURN The US-run aid effort for Haiti is beginning to look chillingly similar to the criminally slow and disorganized US government support for New Orleans after …
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