The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is a righteous piece of work out of the National Defense University (NDU) by Mr. Adrian (Zeke) Wolfberg of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), entitled “To Transform into a More Capable Intelligence Community: A Paradigm Shift in the Analyst Selection Strategy.” Published April 21, 2003, this is still valid and of course still ignored.
HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH (HOPE) The Next Hope (2010) Pre-Registration Now Open Call for Speakers Links to Past HOPE Events Phi Beta Iota: Hackers are like astronauts, pushing the bleeding edge of the envelope. If the US Government had listened to us in 1991-1994, cyberspace would be secure today, and we would not be spending …
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Many problems in alleviating humanitarian crises caused by natural catastrophes, like that in Haiti, have less to do with raising money and aid and more to do with how the flows of money and the aid are processed through the maw of bureaucratic institutions like the military, Red Cross, and the ever growing welter of …
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White House nightmare persists At the end of Barack Obama’s worst week since taking power a year ago, the US president’s fortunes look set only to deteriorate over the coming days. Phi Beta Iota: We find it quite remarkable that there is absolutely no “intelligence” in the sense of decision-support anywhere in this story. The …
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Crowds seeking aid in Haiti met with pepper spray and rubber bullets Desperate crowds have overwhelmed peacekeepers trying to deliver aid. The World Food Programme says that Port-au-Prince represents the greatest logistical challenge it has ever faced “They’re not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat,” Fernando Soares, a Brazilian army colonel, said. “The …
Phi Beta Iota: Following up on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s articulate expression of concern on CNN, we asked around and here’s what we got back, put as bluntly as we heard it: 1. Not my job. 2. SOUITHCOM has the lead. 3. Brazil who? 4. UN what? There are three million people in desperate straits including dehydration, …
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, appearing on CNN with Fareed Zakaria today, Sunday, 24 January 2010 at 1300, has just turned in the single most brilliant and statemanlike precise (on Haiti) that we have been privileged to witness in over a decade. We’ve been down on Brzezinski during that period because he has not given up his compulsion …
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