Reference: Cyber-Intelligence–Restore the Republic Of, By, and For…

This week’s Book post, Infinite Wealth for All, set the stage for this week’s Politics post, which focuses on The New Craft of Cyber-Intelligence–a blending of advanced public intelligence and advanced Information Operations (IO). Let’s start with a great Mashable piece, 4 Predictions for the Future of Politics and Social Media, from which I have …

Assessment of the Position of Director of National Intelligence

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) was created to examine how the terrorist attacks of September 2001 could have occurred and what could be done to prevent future attacks.  Among other things the Commission recommended that there should be a National Intelligence Director who would have “two main areas …

Journal: Ron Paul C-SPAN’s Newsmakers + Ron Paul RECAP

Focus on tax package, Republican future, focus on Federal Reserve and oversight if not termination of the Federal Reserve.  Focus on danger of central economic planning.  Do not attack individuals, but rather the “system.”  It’s going to get a lot worse.  Need more transparency.  Everything Fed does is secret and they have a budget bigger …

Reference: The Fraud-Based US Economy

The attached blog,  “Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems,” is a cut-and-paste accumulation of a variety of outlooks. Most are  based on analyses or accumulated wisdom, but some appear based on hunches, ideologies, etc.  Taken together, however, they paint a horrifying picture of the American political economy and our prospects for …