Marcus Aurelius: Pentagon PSYOP on Spending Cuts + Meta-RECAP

Pentagon’s Budget Plan Said To Draw 40% Of Cuts From Weapons By Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News Bloomberg.com, February 11, 2012 The U.S. Defense Department’s fiscal 2013 spending plan draws more than 40 percent of proposed reductions from weapons accounts that contribute less than a fifth of the budget, based on Pentagon projections. The military budget …

DefDog: Rent-A General Business Continues As Usual…

Rent-A-General Business Booming Chris Frates National Journal, 7 February 2012 Two of the highest-ranking Pentagon officials to leave government in the past year have landed on a lucrative rainmaking board for the federal contracting arm of business-consulting giant Accenture. Former Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn and former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James “Hoss” Cartwright have …

Robert Steele: The Craft of Intelligence – OLD vs. NEW

UPDATED 18 January 2014 Intelligence Chief Describes Complex Challenges. America and the world are facing the most complex set of challenges in at least 50 years, the director of national intelligence told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence here today. James R. Clapper Jr. said capabilities, technologies, know-how, communications and environmental forces “aren’t confined by …

Winslow Wheeler: ONE COLONEL TELLS THE TRUTH – Major Investigation Called For + Meta-RECAP

Circulating today in the New York Times and Armed Forces Journal is a remarkable exposure of what is occurring today in Afghanistan–a situation not accurately reported to the American public, and of course Congress.  Col. Danny Davis (USA) is the officer making this exposure possible.  It will not surprise some, but it will also come as …

Review: Leverage – How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World

Karl Denninger STRONG FIVE – Original, Award-Winning, Major Contribution, February 5, 2012 On the very last page of the book I learn that the author received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for Grassroots Journalism, for his coverage of the 2008 market meltdown. This confirms my own already formed very high estimation of the …

Marcus Aurelius: Rule One for Spies – Do Not Work Out of Embassies . . . Hmmmm

Guess CIA did not get the memo. Michael Ross: Rule No. 1 for would-be spies — stay away from the embassy Michael Ross is a former deep-cover officer with the Israel Secret Intelligence Service (Mossad). National Post, 24 January 2012 I have to admit that the arrest of alleged spy Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle has …