Public Intelligence Blog – Page 644 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon

The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming.

Stephen E. Arnold, a specialist in intelligence and law enforcement software, has used a series of online videos to trace the evolution of Amazon from 2007, when it had “effectively zero” presence in government IT, to today, when it appears set to dominate. “Amazon wants to neutralize and then displace the traditional Department of Defense vendors and become the 21st-century IBM for the US government,” he says.

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GO MORMONS: THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

Offbeat Fun, Officers Call

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SPECIAL: White House Letter to Pelosi Documenting Democratic Treason in Detail (Full Text Online)

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

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Highlights:

I. Your “Inquiry” Is Constitutionally Invalid and Violates Basic Due Process Rights and the Separation of Powers.

II. The Invalid “Impeachment Inquiry” Plainly Seeks To Reverse the Election of 2016 and To Influence the Election of 2020.

III. There Is No Legitimate Basis for Your “Impeachment Inquiry”; Instead, the Committees' Actions Raise Serious Questions.

Full Text Online, Printable PDF, Selected Media Stories Below the Fold

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Zero Hedge: American’s New Six Part Political and Cultural Landscape

Cultural Intelligence

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Understanding America's Cultural And Political Realignment

Authored by Richard Tafel via Quillette.com,

Understanding American politics has become increasingly confusing as the old party labels have lost much of their meaning. A simplistic Left vs. Right worldview no longer captures the complexity of what’s going on. As the authors of the October 2017 “Pew Survey of American Political Typologies” write, “[I]n a political landscape increasingly fractured by partisanship, the divisions within the Republican and Democratic coalitions may be as important a factor in American politics as the divisions between them.”

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Yoda: Rwanda Makes Its Own Smartphones — Could It Become the World’s First Open Source Everything Superpower?

#OSE Open Source Everything, Manufacturing

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Rwanda launches first ‘Made in Africa' smartphones

“We are actually the first who are doing manufacturing. We are making the motherboards, we are making the sub-boards during the entire process,” he said. “There are over 1,000 pieces per phone.”

Could Rwanda become the world's first open source everything superpower?

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