The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Budget Comparison Usually when we get information about black programs it’s the result of two or more errors on the part of Congressmen. One will give a budget for a certain area, another will describe black ops as a percentage of that number, and then we get the actual figure. This time thanks to Edward …
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Yemen’s Food & Water Crisis Yesterday I saw an article that indicated Yemen’s capitol, Sana’a, could be out of water in a decade. There were some shocking statistics in that article and in the ReliefWeb article that provided the above map. 40% of Yemen’s water is used to cultivate qat, which is labeled as a narcotic, …
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Lesser Syria, Greater Kurdistan, Armenia’s Mt. Olympus Here in America it’s somewhat notable to meet up with someone who can identify all fifty of our states if presented with a national map that doesn’t have a legend. European weapons and European diseases made quick work of the native population and there are only a few areas …
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Coming back to work topics after a weekend of covering Twitter’s endless nerdwars I am pretty horrified by the news coming out of Syria. Ethnic Kurds are the largest group of stateless people in the world. Their population straddles the meeting point for Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. I read a few weeks ago that …
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Global Terrorism Database & Sentinel Visualizer Earlier this week I had a go at Visualizing The Global Terror Database using Gephi. Three weeks ago I laid hands on a license for Sentinel Visualizer a law enforcement/intelligence grade link analysis and data visualization tool. Today I had some broken time and in between a stream of phone …
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The Pentagon’s Third Rail This came out of the morning Situation Report from @glubold of Foreign Policy magazine. The secret sauce, for those interested, is to read NightWatch for a mix of what might happen and what the news is too clumsy to cover, then check the various FP feeds to see what has actually come …
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UN envoy: Iraq and Syrian conflicts are merging That headline appeared in my inbox earlier and I have been dreading it. The Syrian civil war has spilled over into Lebanon, it’s encroaching on Turkey’s territory, and it’s set off troubles in neighboring Iraq, which are now merging into an end to end regional threat. Let’s …
