Josh Kilbourn: 80% of Retired Admirals & Generals Roll Into Defense Contracting Positions — the Conflicts of Interest are Legendary — and Allowed

The Shocking Statistics Behind The Pentagon’s Revolving Door ‘Policy’ Tyler Durden ZeroHedge, 12/03/2012 High ranking generals and admirals earn their stars.  They earn their stripes.  Then, they earn their cash.  New research by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) found 70% of the 108 three-and-four star generals and admirals who retired between 2009 …

Gold Transformer: Post-US world born in Phnom Penh — But See Also CELAC Etcetera

Post-US world born in Phnom Penh By Spengler Asia Times, Nov 27, 2012 It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at …

Robert Steele: How Obama’s Team Melded Big Data to Raise Money & Win Votes, Defeating the “Nine Ways” and “Twelve Amigos”

TIME has provided an utterly spectacular story on how the Obama team melded big data.  As I finished the article, I could not help but wonder how much more useful the secret intelligence world would be, to so many more people, if it could do this for the rest of the world — with the …

GI Wilson: Maps for Post-Sandy Recovery – Good, Bad, & Ugly – Comment by Robert Steele

We always have a map problem…I know you have known this for yrs and yrs and been the single voice in the map wilderness calling out….I wonder who got all those old Soviet maps after the fall…..we have never solved this problem…we just think we have. yes…No…? After Sandy, Intelligence Agencies Scramble To Feed Maps, …