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Marcus Aurelius: Secretary Harold Brown on Cutting Service Secretaries

Dr. Brown paints Service Secretaries, in the terms my father would have used, as “spare gear.”) A Better Place To Cut To protect military programs, get rid of redundant service secretaries By Harold Brown Washington Post, October 19, 2012, Pg. 21 The four military services in the Defense Department differ in their roles, missions and …

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Gordon Duff: Benghazi Story Revisited — Military-Style Operation, Set-Up By Terry Jones, GOP and Romney Campaign Complicit? + Benghazi RECAP

BACK-GROUND I Military-style tactics seen in US Consulate siege Read full article. BACK-GROUND II Terry Jones Loses it Again, Sets up the Film (YouTube 2:43) BACKGROUND III Newsweek Cover Alleged to be Actors BACKGROUND IV Death Photo of Ambassador Dragged by Mob in Hands of Romney Campaign Instantly Read full article by Gordon Duff.

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Steve Aftergood: Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals Deepens Its Lack of Integrity – “Negative Reciprocity” Means Unsigned Unsworn Summary Statements from CIA — Itself Notorious –Can Kill a Contractor’s Career – UPDATED

“NEGATIVE RECIPROCITY” EMERGES IN THE SECURITY CLEARANCE SYSTEM In the world of security clearances for access to classified information, the term “reciprocity” is used to indicate that one executive branch agency should ordinarily recognize and accept a security clearance that has been granted by another executive branch agency. This is not just a nice, cost-efficient …

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David Isenberg: Heavy Metal in Iraq = 50% or More Babies with Congenital Birth Defects – Mercury, Lead, and Depleted Uranium

Heavy Metal in Iraq By David Isenberg, Oct. 22, 2012 Every war is hell, particularly for civilians. And while every war produces deadly familiar impacts on the civilian population whether it is death and injuries due to combat or subsequent illness and death due to destruction of infrastructure sometimes the impact can be unique. Sadly, …

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Graphic: four quadrants of organizational culture

Source: Embedding Sustainability in Organizational Culture (PDF 74 pages) As a general comment, organizational cultures do not change until the organizations collapse, the leaders die or retire, and a new generation with new internal values derived from external reality is empowered.  Installed leaders will always go for what they learned 20 years earlier, doing the …

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