James A. Lyons: Admiral, Former PACFLT, Calls for Obama to “Come Clean” on Benghazi

Retired Pacific Fleet commander calls for Obama to “come clean” on Benghazi John Hayward Human Events, 30 October 2012 Retired Admiral James A. Lyons, former commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, published a tough editorial in the Washington Times on Sunday, calling for President Obama to “come clean on what happened in Benghazi.”  Lyons describes …

Marcus Aurelius: Australian Media – USG Calls Assange as an Enemy of the State + Wikileaks RECAP

Julian ASSANGE probably is a bona fide “enemy of the State;” not sure that is actually an official US Government term.   However, since the first hoopla about Bradley MANNING and Wiki-leaks came out a couple of years ago, I’m not sure the troops have been adequately warned that reading Wiki-leaks sites is proscribed.  At that …

Gordon Duff: Colombian Hooker Demands $800, Lives to Talk About It UPDATE 3

UPDATE 3:  Brother Duff’s provocative speculation aside, this looks more and more like a four-way goat-fest.  1)  Idiot prostitute tried for $800 instead of the customary $60-80.  2)  Secret Service cherub lost it.  3)  Colombian police were not at all cool.  4)  CIA fixer was asleep.  Journalists are after the Secret Service “racist bitch” that …

Mini-Me: Bin Laden Road Show Begins Part I – David Ignatius on the CIA’s “Captured” Abbottabad Files

Huh?  We do not make this stuff up.  CIA’s Covert Action Staff is evidently having a ball, and David Ignatius has no problem playing the bimbo.  Note the built-in pre-excuse on poor syntax.  Note the pretense that incoherence was connected to long periods of time between sending, receiving, and responding.  The hit on Fox is …

Reference: World Development Reform 2011 – Conflict, Security, & Development

More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict. The World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Developmentexamines the changing nature of violence in the 21st century, and underlines the negative impact of repeated cycles of violence on a country or region’s development prospects. Preventing violence and building peaceful states that respond …