The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is an emerging possibility. Below is the original but newly revised link on the Open Source Agency. Central to the revision is the growing understanding within NATO, SOCOM, and AFRICOM that “traditional” C2 (proprietary) and “traditional” intelligence (secret) are Dead on Arrival (DOA). The new meme within official circles is Alternative C2 and Alternative …
Looks as if SECDEF has identified the alternatives — humans or hardware– and has picked hardware. Hagel: Pentagon Must Choose Between People or Platforms WASHINGTON — The Pentagon might have to cancel many modernization programs over a decade-long period should mandatory federal spending caps remain in place over the next decade, US Defense Secretary Chuck …
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NSA Snooping: The War on Terror Is America’s Mania A Commentary By Klaus Brinkbäumer The NSA spying scandal shows that America’s pursuit of terrorists has turned into a mania. Spying on citizens is as monstrous and unlawful as Guantanamo Bay and drone warfare. The German government’s response has been woefully weak. America is sick. September …
Population Cleansing Wars Gordon Duff Veterans Today, 15 July 2013 It is a mistake to look on what has become endless wars, first centering in the Middle East, as struggles over religion, political theories, sectarian struggles or post-colonial realignments. Each hypothesis fails. Increasingly, intelligence analysts are agreeing on one thing, there is clear evidence of …
It has been a pleasure for me to support some of the bright minds at NATO ACT (Atlantic Command Transformation, the old SACLANT), and it has also incentivized me to familiarize myself with where NATO is today and where it might go in the future.[1] As one who has decades of experience with the US …
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Worth a look. The Gist Mill – Strategic Social Media Analysis The ability to rapidly ingest, identify, monitor and exploit relationships, trends and collective thought evolving out of Internet-based social networks will be the most critical analytic capability requirement of the next decade. The fact that these networks exist in plain sight, are vastly dense, …
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Smartphone Makers Hit By Rising Competition Samsung gives weaker-than-expected earnings guidance and HTC posts tepid results EXTRACT: “The mid and entry-level smartphones are quickly picking up share, and are getting quite powerful in their capabilities,” said CK Lu, an analyst at Gartner in Taiwan. “Basically, a year ago, you didn’t have many choices in low-end …
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