The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach Ways of making men talk Alan Judd Spectator (UK) Book Club, 24 March 2012 Eric Rosenbach is a former academic who is now deputy assistant secretary of defence in Washington. Aki Peritz used to work for the CIA and now advises the Third Way think tank. Their book, therefore, is …
Corruption infects our world in many forms: material and moral, visible and invisible, direct and indirect. But the underlying motive behind all things corrupt is a strong opportunistic instinct to benefit oneself at the cost of others by allurement or deception. No wonder politics has fallen so much into disrepute. The aphorism of the nineteenth-century …
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What I learned from the HASC hearing on the F-35 this past Tuesday is described below in a piece at Time’s Batteland blog. Predictably, aside from the new GAO testimony, the subcommittee exposed nothing, except about itself. There is a possible way out of the non-oversight mess, but I doubt there is any interest in …
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Huh? Marcus Aurelius: The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will ‘transform’ surveillance Devices connected to internet leak information CIA director says these gadgets will ‘transform clandestine tradecraft’ Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers People ‘bug’ their own homes with web-connected devices DefDog: CIA loves Internet of things… …
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Responding to Gordon Duff: Unit Murders In AF, Cover-Up Begins. There is an investigation that has shed light on the poor medical support being provided at Ft. Lewis…….this may, in fact, be the result of sheer incompetence by the Army Medical Corps and the resultant hiding of the fact that soldiers are being blamed for …
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I am always amazed when people tell me IO doesn’t work and then I see things such as this….I guess what they are really saying is incompetence doesn’t work….. Kony 2012: The anatomy of a viral campaign Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post, 9 March 2012 A particularly savvy media campaign by a nonprofit group called Invisible …
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Innovation and Counter-Innovation: Digital Resistance in Russia iRevolution, 9 March 2012 Want to know what the future of digital activism looks like? Then follow the developments in Russia. I argued a few years back that the fields of digital activism and civil resistance were converging to a point I referred to as “digital resistance.” The pace …
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