The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
EDIT of 9 Jan 10: Note seven comments from retired senior officers. Critique of the CT Summary for the White House This is a negligent piece of work that fails to include all that is known merely from open sources of information, but more importantly its judgments are misdirected. This incident remains incompletely investigated until …
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Phi Beta Iota: This is a replay of a Wayne Madsen report. Over lunch we checked with our most connected consultant and learned that this is roughly half right, with some of the specifics names and methods not right, but that over-all there is general consensus on three points: Rahm is playing dirty “within and …
Bubba Book January 6, 2010 Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, Stephen John Stedman EDIT of 7 Jan 09. I got halfway through another book last night and now understand the Princeton-based idea that the US has enough power to demand changes and that earlier “balance of power” constraints might not apply. On the one hand, this …
Heads set to roll as Obama goes on attack over security failures that allowed Christmas Day bomber on to plane A senior aide said Obama would seek accountability at the highest levels for the failure, a remark some observers took to mean that heads would roll. The terrorist plot to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight …
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Phenomenal–Ref A Relevant to Everywhere Else December 21, 2009 Ali A. Allawi The author has achieved extraordinary synthesis and summation, with gifted straight-forward language.This book is not only a capstone reference, but demonstrates why we need to LISTEN–none of us could learn–in a lifetime–all that this author has in his head. That’s why multinational engagement …
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SIPRI Map of Multilateral Peace Operation Deployments Click to enlarge This SIPRI map presents a snapshot of multilateral peace operation deployments worldwide in September 2009. Using data drawn from the SIPRI Multilateral Peace Operations Database, it shows where missions are taking place, how large they are and which organizations and coalitions are conducting them. Download …
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Utterly Brilliant Synthesis, Vital First Step–US Violates Every Single Principle December 18, 2009 United States Institute of Peace This book is a six-star special and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, where I cluster like non-fictions books in 98 categories, one of which is Stabilization & Reconstruction. At its …
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