The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Viewpoint Christianophobia: The Lesson of Terry Jones by Tim Padgett, Friday, September 10, 2011 Pastor Terry Jones, right, of the Dove World Outreach Center speaks to the media in Gainesville, Fla., as Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida looks on. Phil Sandlin / AP Even ogres can serve a purpose. The …
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September 9, 2010 Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of an Afghan war memoir they say contains intelligence secrets, according to two people familiar with the dispute. The publication of “Operation Dark Heart,” …
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Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse Hosted by The Long Now Foundation This is a provoking and entertaining presentation. After the short video called “Pixels” prior to the presentation, Jesse Schell starts off with what if life becomes, not Orwellian, but Huxleyan (Brave New World) where pleasure achieved through technology grips the whole lives of …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block female employees from suing on behalf of as many as 1.5 million women in what would be the largest gender-bias suit against a private employer in U.S. history. . . . . . . . The company agreed in 2008 to pay as much as …
CIA rendition: US court throws out torture case, citing state secrets Appeals court judges sound apologetic tone in ruling; plaintiffs say they were tortured overseas in ‘extraordinary rendition’ program. Under the state secrets doctrine, courts have generally granted deference to executive branch claims that certain litigation may involve highly sensitive US government information which, if …
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Iraq: Time to Ring the Bell by Howard P. Hart 27 August 2010 Many years ago I attended a series of Headquarters briefings for out-going CIA Chiefs of Station. Our main speaker was Richard Helms, then the Agency’s Director and one of the lions of American foreign policy in the 1960’s and 70’s. A man …
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Although the search produces a number of hits, including Graphic: OSINT Competing Models, it misses Graphic: OSINT Two Views as well as some larger references because OSINT is out and M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making is new new meme in town, originating with the Swedish military and specifically Col Jan-Inge Svensson and …
