The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We Lack Intelligence with Integrity Mr. President: Please Fire Clapper, Vickers, & Brennan Mr. President, I hold Jim Clapper, today the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and previously the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI) accountable for failing to serve the public interest all these years. I believe you should fire him, Mike Vickers the …
Robert Steele: UNASUR – The Revolution Begins The headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is now complete and being inaugurated in Quito, Ecuador on 5 and 6 December 2014. I was just in Ecuador, delivering a briefing on the importance of civil-military relations in professionalizing intelligence. That briefing is available free online …
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Profit is Sustainable – If You Build Upon Intelligence with Integrity There are so many success stories today on the edges of the economy and society – EcoVillages, Transition Towns, and Intentional Communities among them – but the core concept of sustainable profit consistent with social and ecological integrity has yet to go mainstream. At …
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I was glad to respond to an invitation to write “Beyond Data Monitoring,” a Background Paper for the UN International Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution, co-chaired by Robin Li of Baidu, which is good, with Open Source represented by Tim “algorithms rule” O’Reilly, which is bad. Although the paper gained no traction …
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Intel is doing something new and useful. They have introduced a Conflict-Free Smelter Program (CFSP) to migrate toward assuring Intel consumers that its offerings are free of minerals from conflict environments — tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are the ones they are focusing on. What Intel is doing impresses me for two reasons. First, they …
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Reflections on China & The Internet LinkedIn, 3 November 2014 It was my great privilege to be a co-founder with Winn Schwartau of the first Information Warfare Conference in the early 1990’s. Winn, through his books and Congressional testimony did more than anyone else to warn us of both NSA’s likekly malfeasance (see his 1980’s …
Reflections on US Decision-Making LinkedIn, 27 October 2014 Since 1990, when I first itemized six things that US intelligence needed to do in order to better serve the USA, I have been persistently troubled by the lack of leadership and the lack of integrity in this profession that I consider so fundamental to creating a …
