The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Five actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in December 2010, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch. Côte d’Ivoire was gripped by political crisis as incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo refused to cede power after losing to rival Alassane Outtara in the late-November presidential …
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Phi Beta Iota: Notes summarizing the 59 minute video are below the line. ….Watch this!!!!! My good friend Pierre Sprey interviews Bill Hartung on Book TV about Hartung’s new book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The book is a history of the largest military contractor in U.S. history, …
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Decision-support (intelligence) is the ultimate objective of information processes. One must carefully distinguish between data which is raw text, signal, or image; information which is collated data of generic interest; and intelligence which is information tailored to support a specific decision… Robert David Steele Vivas On Intelligence (AFCEA, 2000) As noted in an earlier Journal …
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The Nobel War Prize Tariq Ali London Review of Books, 11 December 2010 Last year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize escalated the war in Afghanistan a few weeks after receiving the prize. The award surprised even Obama. This year the Chinese government were foolish to make a martyr of the president of Chinese PEN …
China says does not want to “replace” U.S. as world power Reuters 6 December 2010 China does not want to “replace” the United States from its dominant role in the world, and the world should not fear China’s rise, the country’s top diplomat wrote in an essay. State Councillor Dai Bingguo said that China would …
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The first of two on IC failures….as if we didn’t need any more proof. DefDog Reports indicate China’s fifth generation jet fighter rollout far ahead of U.S. intel projections East-Asia-Intel.com, December 1, 2010 Chinese military Internet reports indicate that China may roll out its first fifth generation fighter as early as this month, far earlier …
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Iranians (Persians) have viewed Russia (Soviet Union) with distrust and as a menace or outright threat for hundreds of years, at least since the Russian Tsars cemented their expansion into Turkestan (or the Turkic countries in what is now called Central Asia). The fact that Iran sits on top of one of the world’s largest …
