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2012/07/112012/07/11

David Isenberg: Private Military Corporations – The Worst of All Evils

PMSC Not Ready for U.N. Prime Time Huffington Post, 11 July 2012 For many years now, private military and security contractor (PMSC) advocates have argued that utilization of PMSC in United Nations peace operations offers an alternative to doing nothing or trying to organize a frequently dysfunctional U.N.-sponsored, often ill-equipped and organized intervention. Indeed, about …

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2012/05/212012/05/21

Search: oss.net/HACK and others

All of the short-cuts are decommissioned, they are the one thing we could not switch from Sweden. oss.net/HACK [Reinventing Intelligence]: 1995 Re-Inventing Intelligence The Vision and the Strategy Other shortcuts are reconnected here within Phi Beta Iota, but do not work in and of themselves: www.oss.net/AMAZON: 2007 Amazon as Hub of World Brain www.oss.net/GNOME: 2007 …

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2012/04/282012/04/28

Marcus Aurelius: US Army Chief of Staff Toes the Party Line + Meta-RECAP

Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2012 also Army.mil The U.S. Army In A Time Of Transition Building a flexible force By Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army Chief of Staff After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The …

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2012/04/272012/04/27

NIGHTWATCH: China Builds Economic-Tourism Bridge to Taiwan, Puts PLA Into a Box – US Will Continue to Demonize China for Unethical Reasons

Sixteen years ago, Pingtan Island, just north west of Taiwan, was the center of Chinese military energies to intimidate Taiwanese voters against electing a pro-independence president. Major amphibious operations were staged, some with catastrophic loss of life by military personnel because of bad weather. This also was the first time China attempted to maintain continuous …

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2012/04/252012/04/25

Chuck Spinney: US Senate Notices Next Atomic Disaster in Japan

Warning Signs for the US Why Fukushima is a Greater Disaster Than Chernobyl by ROBERT ALVAREZ, Counterpunch, APRIL 24, 2012 In the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear power disaster, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the rest of the world posed by the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site are …

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2012/03/24

Review: Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution

Heidi Burgess, Guy M. Burgess 5.0 out of 5 stars A gem of a book, still relevant today,March 24, 2012 I picked this book up as a used library book, and should have spent time with it sooner. It was published in 1997. It is still relevant today. Although I list ten other related works …

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2011/12/122012/12/11

2011 Robert Steele: Global Trends 2030 – Gaps + RECAP

UPDATE 11 December 2012: The report is now out. The below commentary was posted 12 December 2011, one year prior to the final report. Global Trends 2030: Full Copy (166 Pages) Here, Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts Although Global Trends 2030 will not be released …

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