The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …
Aid organizations are announcing with great pride that they will feed two million over the new two weeks. What they don’t say is that is 143,000 a day–assuming best case circumstances, sucks for those they don’t reach in the last ten days of those fourteen days—the last day of which will be roughly thirty days …
HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH (HOPE) The Next Hope (2010) Pre-Registration Now Open Call for Speakers Links to Past HOPE Events Phi Beta Iota: Hackers are like astronauts, pushing the bleeding edge of the envelope. If the US Government had listened to us in 1991-1994, cyberspace would be secure today, and we would not be spending …
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Haitians flee in fear as big aftershock hits PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The most powerful aftershock yet struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking more rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets eight days after the country’s capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake. The extent of additional damage or injuries caused by …
The real motives behind the increasing US involvement in Yemen are obscure, to put it charitably. M.K. Bhadrakuma, retired Indian diplomat, presents a complex and fascinating — and no doubt controversial — hypothesis in this regard. Bhadrakuma, a prolific writer, is an astute observer of the Central and South Asia, and judged by his writings, …
Can Intelligence Be Intelligent? (Wall Street Journal) By BRET STEPHENS JANUARY 12, 2010 Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies of Detroit. Though billed by National Security Adviser Jim Jones as a bombshell in its own right, the memo reads more like the …
The Meaning Of Al Qaeda’s Double Agent: The jihadists are showing impressive counterintelligence ability that the CIA seems to have underestimated. Wall Street Journal Reuel Marc Gerecht January 8, 2010 [safety copy of entire piece below the fold] Amid the Hysteria, A Look at What al-Qaeda Can’t Do TIME Magazine By Peter Beinart Monday, Jan. 18, …
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