The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
My friend and colleague Andrew Cockburn has a new book out. Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins is more than the title, which I don’t like, implies. Much more than just the next anti-drone book, Andrew performs brain surgery on the misguided notion that “critical nodes” in an enemy’s infrastructure can be 1) …
Brian Jacob Church spent the better part of a day shackled inside Chicago’s Homan Square, denied access to an attorney, before police finally sent him to be booked and charged. Lawyers say the facility is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. • The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’ • …
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Invite your attention to attached paper on lying in the Army from the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. Authors are two War College professors, both retired Army officers and West Point graduates. Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession Authored by Dr. Leonard Wong, Dr. Stephen J. Gerras.
Noirware Are we just going to sit here while the unintended consequences of bad design wreak havoc on our lives? A retrospective about RFID creep and GPS abuse is called for. EXTRACT …absent a robust security model, commercial GPS is currently untrustworthy with no antidote on the horizon. PDF (6 Pages)
Huh? Elizabeth Warren And Sherrod Brown Fight Fed Audit, Foreclosure Transparency WASHINGTON — Top progressive senators are running away from a bill authored by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to audit both the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy operations and millions of foreclosures. Their aversion could doom any chance for public transparency surrounding the widespread abuse that …
US Sailing 5 Stars Perhaps the best teaching/coaching “best practices” overview I have ever read This volume complements – with some overlap but certainly worth reading on its own merits – the US Naval Offshore Sail Training Squadron Experiential Leadership Guide, which cites this books as recommended additional reading. Worthy of immediate and continuous note …
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The Williams record in covering up the sickening horrors wreaked by the US military in its never-ending campaign to re-order the world to Washington’s liking goes way back. When NATO jet fighters bombed a passenger train in Serbia – by “mistake” – killing a dozen and wounding dozens more, Williams intoned that visuals of the …
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