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2011/09/302011/09/30

Review (Guest): Fixing the Facts – National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

5 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Censorship & Denial of Access, Complexity & Catastrophe, Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Government), Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Impeachment & Treason, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Leadership, Military & Pentagon Power, Politics, Priorities, Public Administration, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Threats (Emerging & Perennial), True Cost & Toxicity, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized)

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Joshua Rovner

5.0 out of 5 stars It Takes Two: Strategic Intelligence and National Security Policy, September 30, 2011

By Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews
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In the U.S., the relationship between strategic intelligence and the formulation of national security policies has been to say the least complex and often confusing. This book provides what has long been needed, an objective and scholarly review of this relationship.

Rovner provides an excellent theoretical background to guide his examination of specific case histories that he has chosen to illustrate the relationships between strategic intelligence and policy. Ideally intelligence analysts should be able to operate without interference to produce strategic intelligence reports that are honest, objective, and supported by the best information available. Again ideally policy makers should be free to challenge such reports. Finally both analysts and policymakers should be able to hold rational discussions over differences in interpretation and conclusions in which the supporting evidence is considered objectively. Unfortunately this ideal is often thwarted by what Rovner calls “the pathologies of intelligence-policy relations.” He has identified three such `pathologies':

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2011/09/302011/10/17

Mini-Me: Google “Buries” OccupyWallStreet Report

Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency

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AmpedStatus Report

Google Censors Our #OccupyWallStreet Report

Over the past few years, we have had a few cases were Google decided to censor a report of ours from their search results. We documented one case publicly here. We usually don’t make a big deal about it online because people tend to just dismiss us as “crazy” when we do. However, this latest case is blocking our new report on the #OccupyWallStreet movement and we would like to bring it to the attention of the many supporters within the movement. The post is entitled, “A Report from the Frontlines: The Long Road to #OccupyWallStreet and the Origins of the 99% Movement.” After we published it late yesterday afternoon, when we checked Google and typed in the full headline, it was featured at the top of their search results . However, as of this morning, Google has removed our post from their results.

Graphic: Google Evil Equated to China

Corruption, ICT-IT

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2011/09/30

Winslow Wheeler: Elitist Corruption on the Defense Budget

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Commerce, Corporations, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, DoD, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

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WinslowWheeler Cropped — Winslow Wheeler

Just as the leaders of US national security thinking led America into the war in Iraq based on the false premise of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and reckless, but politically powerful, rhetoric, Washington's elite are now circling the wagons around the defense budget. They are using the same disingenuous tactics and the same kind of rhetorical gibberish. While they have successfully intimidated the rest of the political system, they are also making huge fools of themselves.

I express my views on this and some defense budget facts you have not heard from these people in a commentary. Titled “The Stench of Elitism in Defense Spending,” it is available at the Politics page of the Huffington Post. Under the better mannered title “Elites Are Wrong,” an edit is also available at AOL Defense.

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2011/09/302011/10/17

Mini-Me: Cry from the Heart On US Electoral Fraud

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

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Reacting to:

Tom Atlee: Diebold Voting Machines Can Be Hacked Remotely–ONE THIRD of All Votes Can Be Easily Manipulated

From Canada via Email:

Why do you think I moved to Canada after the 2004 election was stolen in Ohio? I had direct experience as an election observer for the Democratic party at the Ohio recount in 2004, the Ohio 2006 elections, and the 2008 election. All were defrauded. I was on a citizen lawsuit filed in the Federal courts, and the judge refused our original evidence. We have a huge paper trail of evidence. Here’s the public record.

I personally tried to save the Republican IT guys whose plane went down in 2008 after he was deposed by the King Lincoln attorneys. I spoke with his attorney before he deposition and tried to keep him from speaking, even though that put the theft on record. We needed to save him for a protected testimony. Yes, that’s how it ends when you try to come clean.

Many MANY activists have worked on this since 2004. We were told by Salon and by Daily Kos, by all the bloggers we were conspiracy nuts, until Robert F. Kennedy Jr published his piece in Rolling Stone, I believe, in 2006. I realized we could not win this by activism or legal means. I moved to Canada and became a permanent resident. There are some wars you cannot win.

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2011/09/302011/09/30

Howard Rheinigold: Cultivating a Personal Learning Network

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Gift Intelligence

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Institute for Social and Network Literacy

Life Skills for Knowledge Citizenship

Notes on cultivating a personal learning network

Explore — it’s not just about knowing how to find experts, co-learners, but about exploration as invitation to serendipitous encounter.

Search – Use Diigo, delicious, listorious, to find pools of expertise in the fields that interest you.

Follow candidates through RSS, Twitter. Ask yourself over days, weeks, whether each candidate merits continued attention.

Always keep tuning your network, dropping people who don’t gain sufficiently high interest; adding new candidates.

Feed the people you follow if you come across information that you suspect would interest them.

To find expertise, also use scholarly tool, scholar.google and freeware “Harzing’s Publish or Perish” shell of it.

Engage the people you follow. Be polite, mindful of making demands on their attention. Put work into dialogue if they welcome it.

Inquire of the people you follow, of the people who follow you. But be careful. Ask engaging questions – answers should be useful to others.

Also, use the fractal branching effect– when you find someone worth following, see who they follow, lather, rinse, repeat.

Respond to inquiries made to you. Contribute to both diffuse reciprocity and quid pro quo.

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2011/09/29

Koko: Ralph Nader Loves Ron Paul, Hails Potential Left-Libertarian Alliance

Advanced Cyber/IO, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Policies, Threats

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Koko Signs: All that's needed now is the convergence of Independents, the Day of Rage and Freedom Plaza mobs, a revitalized labor movement, all centered on Electora Reform, a Coalition Cabinet, and the cancelling of corporate charters for any corporation screwing the public – and of course the repeal of “corporate personality.”

Ralph Nader Hearts Ron Paul, Hails Potential Left-Libertarian Alliance

Matt Welch

Reason.com, 28 September 2011

Michael Tracey, who wrote about restrictive teen-driving laws in the June issue of Reason, catches up with the consumer crusader for The American Conservative:

Looking ahead to the 2012 presidential race, one might assume that Nader has little to be cheerful about.

Yet he says there is one candidate who sticks out—who even gives him hope: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. […]

“Look at the latitude,” Nader says, referring to the potential for cooperation between libertarians and the left. “Military budget, foreign wars, empire, Patriot Act, corporate welfare—for starters. When you add those all up, that's a foundational convergence. Progressives should do so good.”