Chuck Spinney: US Continues to be Clueless on AF Cultural – Tribal Intelligence – Karzai Brothers a Replay of Ngo Dinh Diem & Madame Nhu

In my last Blaster, I discussed the deficiencies of the Washington Post puff piece on the Obama/Allen triage strategy for exiting Afghanistan. One of the points mentioned was that the NATO/US commander, Marine general John Allen is a student of military history and that he was working to avoid the mistakes the Soviet Union made …

Penguin: Pentagon Spending Taxpayer Money to Identify Insider Threats — Never Realizing that Pentagon Misbehavior Inspires Insider Patriots

After paying for the development of this bullshit we can all plan building this expense into our family budgets. The Way The Pentagon Is Predicting Your Potential To Become A National Threat Is Frightening Eloise Lee Business Insider, May 7, 2012, Tom Cruise made “pre-crime’” a futuresque and controversial method of law enforcement in the …

Winslow Wheeler: Media Plays Dead for Panetta Virus

Yesterday, the Nieman Watchdog journalism group at Harvard asked me to evaluate how well the press is scrutinizing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Basically, it’s not; instead, Panetta seems to be free of informed, skeptical questioning; he must be absolutely delighted with the treatment he is receiving. Why is the press ignoring Panetta’s frenzied rhetoric …

Journal: Oracle Up, Google Down, Band Plays On…

Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers ASHLEE VANCE September 21, 2010 EXTRACT 1:  But Oracle’s annual takeover of San Francisco pales against its larger ambitions — to supply just about all the technology, software and hardware, that businesses might need. This sweeping agenda has rattled the nerves of customers, who fear that Oracle has …

Journal: World Bank to Play Sheriff in Recovering Despot Funds

With a tip of the hat to Intelligence Online Issue No. 598 (16-29 July 2009), we are delighted to note that the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) is creating a special new investigative unit to focus exclusively on identifying and facilitating the recovering of assets stolen by politicians in the emerging countries, i.e. …