The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Automation of Government Coercion Posted: 25 May 2012 09:10 AM PDT I recently did a series of interviews for an international venture investing newsletter called Capitalist Exploits. Here’s a question I got that I thought we be of interest to GG readers. I’ve extended the answer a bit from the original in the interview. …
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Cataloging Wounds of War to Help Heal Them By C. J. CHIVERS New York Times, May 17, 2012 FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — To those unfamiliar with a battlefield’s bleak routine, Col. Michael D. Wirt’s database could be read like a catalog of horrors. In it, more than 500 American soldiers are subjected to characteristic forms …
Ambassador Stephen Krasner’s Orienting Principle for Foreign Policy (and Military Management)—Responsible Sovereignty Conflict Management and “Whole of Government”: Useful Tools for U.S. National Security Strategy? Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability Robert S. Mueller, III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Statement before the House Judiciary Committee Washington, D.C. May 09, 2012 VIDEO (7:14): 2045: A New …
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The growth of social media poses a dilemma for security and law enforcement agencies. On the one hand, social media could provide a new form of intelligence – SOCMINT – that could contribute decisively to keeping the public safe. On the other, national security is dependent on public understanding and support for the measures being …
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Outside the normal press field, this is the second article I saw today in CSO Salted Hash newsletter about Big Brother…. Will Obama preside over the coming of Big Brother? Privacy advocates and civil libertarians say among the president’s broken promises is a failure to restrain the NSA’s growing domestic surveillance By Taylor Armerding April …
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NSA Whistleblower Speaks Live: “The Government Is Lying To You” Just a month ago we raised more than a proverbial eyebrow when we noted the creation of the NSA’s Utah Data Center (codename Stellar Wind) and William Binney’s formidable statement that “we are this far from a turnkey totalitarian state”. Democracy Now has the former …
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Day one: the new cold war China’s censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state media Inside Washington’s high risk mission to beat web censors Nervous Kremlin seeks to purge Russia’s internet of ‘western’ influences How tiny Estonia stepped out of USSR’s shadow to become an internet titan COMMENT: The real threat …
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