Public Intelligence Blog – Page 3697 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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BBC: Osama bin Laden Dead

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Claims bin Laden is dead, names killer (Nov. 2, 2007)

2010/01/182010/02/17

Worth a Look: Water Footprint

12 Water, Earth Intelligence, True Cost, Worth A Look

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Waterfootprint Network Manual
http://www.waterfootprint.org/downloads/WaterFootprintManual2009.pdf

A PILOT IN CORPORATE WATER FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTING AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT:
THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF A SUGAR-CONTAINING CARBONATED BEVERAGE
http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report39-WaterFootprintCarbonatedBeverage.pdf

THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF SWEETENERS AND BIO-ETHANOL FROM SUGAR CANE,
SUGAR BEET AND MAIZE
http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report38-WaterFootprint-sweeteners-ethanol.pdf

Homepage: http://www.waterfootprint.org

2010/01/182010/01/18

Journal: Tea Party Express Rolls Along

11 Society, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Government, Reform

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Welcome to the Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out!

All throughout the recent Tea Party Express national bus tour we kept receiving calls from people around the nation who lived far away from the route our buses took across America. We vowed at the time to keep the Tea Party Express effort alive – and that’s exactly what we are doing.

Join us from March 27th to April 15th, 2010
as we tell Congress and the White House: “Enough!”

Let’s stand up and stop the bailouts, cap and trade, out-of-control spending, government-run healthcare, and higher taxes! We’re back and determined to take our country back!

Phi Beta Iota: We do not believe that a Civil War is coming for the simple reason that there are not enough organized guns to put down the public if the public is united. The Tea Party Express is more authentic in many ways than the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), which is much more like organized politics as operated by the two parties that have corrupted the electoral system and block out the other 63 parties from actual participation.

2010/01/182010/01/18

Journal: Op-Ed on Haiti Log-Jam, Politics, and Debt

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photo tarpley new — Webster Griffin Tarpley

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 the delivery of emergency assistance and supplies is so ineffective that the general directing the distribution of emergency aid needs to be fired without further delay. The catastrophic blunder involved is the decision by the US military in the person of Gen. Ken Keen to insist on routing all external aid through a single substandard, inadequate, and partially destroyed landing field, the Toussaint L‘Ouverture airport. This airport has a single runway, and room to park only about half a dozen medium to long range aircraft. The result is that once six aircraft are parked in the unloading area, all incoming traffic must be waved off until one of the six planes has taken off again, as a colonel on the ground explained in a press conference broadcast on C-SPAN radio here this afternoon. The control tower, radar, and other facilities have been destroyed by the earthquake. Even once cargo has been offloaded, it has been tending to build up at the airport because the streets and roads leading from the airport towards the main population concentrations are blocked by collapsed buildings and other debris. The result is an agonizing slowness in delivering vital supplies upon which the immediate survival of up to 3 million Haitians now depends.

THE SINGLE AIRPORT AS BOTTLENECK

This single airport approach fulfills the textbook definitions of a logistical bottleneck and logistical nightmare. It was a fatal mistake to ever decide to make this single runway the only supply line for the stricken populations around the Haitian capital. The officer who is said to be running the US logistical effort on the ground is Lieutenant General P.K. “Ken” Keen, second in command of the US Southern Command. Interviewed today by Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday, General Keen stated: “ Well, we had a very good day yesterday, Brit. Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne division who have only arrived within the last day or two delivered over 70,000 bottles of water and 130,000 rations.” General Keane was referring to Saturday, January 16, three days and 96 hours after the earthquake. This statement is comparable to the recent remark of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano to the effect that, although an airplane had almost been blown up aloft, “The system worked.” General Keen, like Secretary Napolitano, appears incapable of recognizing defeat and failure when they are staring him in the face, and human lives have already been lost as a result of his incompetence. Gen. Keen is well on his way to becoming the new Brownie of the Haitian crisis, surpassing in ineptitude the infamous Bush FEMA director who received the accolade of “heckuva job, Brownie” at the height of the 2005 debacle.

Continue reading “Journal: Op-Ed on Haiti Log-Jam, Politics, and Debt”

2010/01/182010/01/18

Journal: Strong Signals from the Heartland

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Reform

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U.S. Heading for Hyperinflationary Collapse, Ruling Elite Preparing for Civil War

Jan 18, 2010 – 12:21 AM

By: James_Quinn

Americans have a choice. They can allow their government to bully and threaten them into conforming to their view of reality like Winston Smith or they can go down swinging like Cool Hand Luke and Randall McMurphy. The cowboy spirit of the Old West is what is required today. We need tough hardened individualists who are willing to say enough is enough. Our government has been corrupted by weak men slithering around the halls of Congress soliciting for money, an evil banking cartel creating fiat money, corporate fascists paying off criminals in Washington DC, and the military industrial complex enforcing Washington’s power across the globe. The country longs for an Andrew Jackson or a Dwight Eisenhower. Instead we are stuck with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. The citizens of the country have chosen a false security in place of liberty and freedom.

Phi Beta Iota: We monitor the Independent press and above is the beginning of one of the most extraordinary statements by a simple US citizen interested in the truth and in upholding the Republic's traditions.

2010/01/18

Reference: Military HUMINT in Iraq

Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD

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Phi Beta Iota: Below are two comments.

Original source comment, a CIA-trained SOF retired O-6: Article is loaded with some phrases and abbreviations that even I, who normally speaks that sort of thing with native fluency, had some problems with. Seems to me that the military has taken a tough job, particularly in a combat zone, and made it even tougher through organizational and bureaucratic complexity as well as fielding a workforce to address the problem that probably is not sufficiently senior or personally mature.

Retired CIA Case Officer (C/O) comment: There are two truth-tellers in this article. The first is that it deals with echelon above division, which confirms that the US military is simply not trained, equipped, nor organized to do tactical clandestine human intelligence or overt human intelligence collection and integration. The second is that doing “HUMINT” in full combat gear with tactical gloves, sunglasses and so on, is not HUMINT–we call it street-walking. Neither HUMINT nor OSINT are serious disciplines today in the USA, on either the military or the civilian side. The CIA does not do street-walking–they're more upscale, and go directly to sleeping with local liaison. Take your pick, neither of these is righteous good stuff.