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2010/02/072010/02/07

Journal: Iraqi Insurgents Capture Human Terrain Team (HTT) Member Issa T. Salomi

Steve Fondacaro and Montgomery Clough, senior program management of the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS), were warned as early as 2007 that Human Terrain Team members in Iraq and Afghanistan would become prey for insurgent groups. They were advised repeatedly that training must emphasize the dangerous environment HTS employees would be operating in. That …

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2010/02/072010/02/07

Journal: Lockheed Mark to Market Pentagon Style

“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …

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2010/02/072010/02/07

Journal: The Tea Party Phenomenon

The Tea Party is still taking shape (Washington Post) Six hundred tea party leaders arrived Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, for the first-ever three-day National Tea Party Convention. Organizers announced the creation of a political action committee called Ensuring Liberty Corp. Phi Beta Iota: 1,100 reportsed to be present for the keynote by Sarah Palin. Tea …

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2010/02/062010/02/06

Search: david petraeus favorite mushroom steele

Rule 1 on this site is never include steele in any search. He’s all over every item, and we did not list his name in the tags because it would have reduced everyone else to very fine print. Without steele the search is successful and produced below, wherein you will find the book you are …

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2010/02/02

Journal: Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

“There’s a scholar who talks about ‘heart’s ease,’ ” Albrecht told me as we sat in his car on a cliff above the Newcastle shore, overlooking the Pacific. In the distance, just before the earth curved out of sight, 40 coal tankers were lined up single file. “People have heart’s ease when they’re on their …

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2010/02/012010/02/01

Journal: Pentagon’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a Metaphor for a Predictable Defense Meltdown

The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …

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2010/02/01

Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines 1 Feb 10

Afghanistan: Has The West Got The Will To Carry On Shedding Blood For The Afghans? (29 Jan 10) Afghanistan: The Taliban On General McChrystal And Negotiations (31 Jan 10) Afghanistan: UN In Secret Peace Talks With Taliban (29 Jan 10) Corporate Misbehavior: How a stray mouse click choked the NYSE & cost a bank $150K …

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