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Robert David STEELE Vivas

This post addresses five questions in the context of the NATO Members and NATO Commander’s mission intent — one excellent and still useful reference is Charles Barry, “Transforming NATO Command and Control for Future Missions,” World Security Network, 15 October 2003, see especially the section on the Allied Transformation Command that emphasized transformation lessons learned, guidelines, benchmarks, concepts, and doctrine; funding priorities for design and implementation of transformational or alternative C3 (consultation, command, and control) among NATO members and external non-NATO elements essential to mission success.

01 Who are the customers of an alternative command and control schema, and how do we involve them?

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Chuck Spinney

Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below).  The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with.  Let’s begin with a little background.

The Sykes-Picot agreement (it was a secret agreement concocted by two bureaucrats) is one of the most cynical documents in the creation of the modern Middle East.

The Encylopaedia Britannica describes it accurately as follows:

It was a … “secret convention made during World War I (1916) between Great Britain and France, with the assent of imperial Russia, for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement led to the division of Turkish-held Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine into various French- and British-administered areas. The agreement took its name from its negotiators, Sir Mark Sykes

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Tom Atlee

The Guardian UK reports that the US and other militaries are preparing for major domestic disorder stimulated by climate, energy, and economic crises. NSA surveillance is part of that.  This shoring up of power-over from the top calls for our rapid development of power-with from below.

Ramping up the two big Powers

The report below from the Guardian UK describes accelerating government and military planning for major civil unrest caused by climate change, energy shocks, and economic crises.  The recently highlighted NSA surveillance – with its engagement of both government and corporate players – is a part of this.  Another part, highlighted here, is the domestic use of the military.

I see this as an example of the power-over forces attempting to maintain control – articulated by them as “government stability” and “domestic order” – as crises and technological developments undermine the capacities of centralized rule and management, as covered by my recent review of THE END OF POWER.

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Neal Rauhauser

Balochistan Triple Tap

Structure hit, suicide bomber success, another suicide bomber at the hospital handling casualties, and then a unit of unknown size storms the hospital in an attack lasting hours? I first noticed the Balochistan independence movement about six months ago. The action that gets reported has thus far been in Pakistan.

CORRECTION: Balochistan Triple Tap

The structure hit was indeed the Balochistan Liberation Army, striking a symbolic target with no loss of life.The suicide bombings and armed assault were not at all related.  …   So I had some good background, some good maps, but this one conceptual error throws the whole piece off kilter. Rather than editing it in place, I felt a clean update was best.

Declining Oil Production: Syria, Egypt & Yemen

Oil producers are subject to an effect know as the Export Land Model. Basically, oil fuels internal growth and when production declines exports decline even more swiftly, as producers steer production into uses at home. Egypt, Syria, and Yemen have all featured heavily here and they are first up in the ominously titled How Oil Exporters Reach Financial Collapse.

Syria & Lebanon’s Patchwork

The ethnic and sectarian divides in Syria are fueling their civil war, and they have a long history of intervention in the affairs of Lebanon. These maps show with increasing focus the ethnic and religious groups that inhabit the region.

Berto Jongman

“#OpPrism, #AntiSec, #Anonymous Reacts to NSA,” Institute for Ethics & emerging Technologies, 18 June 2013

Bruce Schneier, “Evidence that NSA is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata,” Schneier.com, 18 June 2013

David Dayen, “Bank of America whistle-blower’s bombshell: ‘We were told to lie,’”,’” Salon, 18 June 2013

Dieter Broers, “Decoding the Matrix: Stepping into a new state of consciousness,” Event Announcements for UK

Freedom House, Nations in Transit 2013:  Authoritarian Aggression and the Pressures of Austerity (2013)

Leon Fuerth with Evan Faber, “Anticipatory Governance: Winning the Future,” World Future Society, July-August 2013 (Vol 47 No 4)

Listening Post, “Bradley Manning: Truth on trial,” Al-Jazeera, 17 June 2013

Patrick Tucker, “Mapping the Future with Big Data,” World Future Society, July-August 2013 (Vol 47 No 4)

Rick Pelletier, “Scientists explore ways to transform hostility into peaceful thoughts,” Institute for Ethics & emerging Technologies, 18 June 2013

“State of Mind: The Psychology of Control,” InfoWars.com, 18 June 2013

Tim Shorrock, “Put the Spies Back Under One Roof,” Washington Post, 17 June 2013

Finally some actual facts about drugs and drug use. This report is, I hope, the first of many making it clear that the War on Drugs is basically a racist jihad against the poor and disadvantaged used to support an entire bureaucracy of police, judges, prosecutors, prisons, prison guards, and everyone else who can figure an angle to get their snout in the public tax money trough under this umbrella. All these people ar! e making a living off the pain and suffering of millions, mostly people of color. Worse this war is responsible, in the same way the alcohol prohibition created the modern Mafia, for creating the Drug cartels. The entire effort is a study in dysfunction, greed, racism, and stupidity, and it has been going on now for decades with no appreciable effect on reducing drug availability.

Everything Americans Think They Know About Drugs Is Wrong: A Scientist Explodes the Myths
KRISTEN GWYNNE – AlterNet (U.S.)

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Brazil: The largest anti-government demonstrations in 20 years, according to news analysts, have continued for five days in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and eight other cities. News reports said 65,000 people demonstrated in Sao Paulo and over 100,000 marched in Rio. Social networking enabled coordinated marches in Sao Paulo, Rio and Belo Horizonte. Most of the demonstrations have been peaceful.

President Dilma Rousseff said in a brief statement, “Peaceful demonstrations are legitimate and part of democracy. It is natural for young people to demonstrate.”

No deaths have been reported. About 200 people have been injured around the country.

Comment: An increase in the cost of public transportation in Sao Paulo sparked the first demonstrations, which flash mob tactics swelled. As the demonstrations spread, demonstrators said they were protesting government corruption, poor economic conditions, criminal violence and lack of public safety, official spending for the Olympics in 2016 and the World Cup in 2014 and rising prices.

The government response has been much more restrained than that of the Turkish government and the violence has been much less. Nevertheless, the phenomenology looks very similar.

The police said they would not intervene to stop the demonstrations provided they did not result in property destructions. A small group of protestors in Rio set a car on fire. The car fire prompted the clash with police, which dominated international media coverage and misrepresented the peaceful nature of the demonstrations.

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David Swanson

Afghanistan Drawdown, 20 More Years Of War

By lisa savage – Posted on 23 May 2013

In order to reduce the number of boots on the ground in Afghanistan, the Pentagon asked Congress for $9.6 billion of its allowance to be moved from one budget line to another. They asked permission to shift funds away from research and weapons purchases to instead “support funding shortfalls” in transportation, due to the high cost of removing from landlocked, mountainous Afghanistan. The Pentagon is reluctant to run short on funds for fuel, engaged as it is in the business of maintaining the largest carbon footprint on the planet.

But lest you make the mistake of thinking that withdrawal of many troops from Afghanistan means the war is over, a Pentagon official testifying to the Senate Armed Services committee said that the current war on terrorism could continue for ten, or maybe even twenty, more years. Also, now battlefields are chosen by “the enemy” and thus can and do keep cropping up in all sorts of unlikely places — even Boston.

Downsizing the occupation consists of relying more and more on drones, or flying killer robots, and less and less on soldiers. Our mammoth fortified “embassy” in Kabul isnearly complete, Pepsi is building a new bottling plant there, and our imperial ambitions are leaning toward Africa while simultaneously pivoting to the Pacific. Look for more request for advances on the Pentagon’s allowance.

What chaos do we leave in our wake as we “exit” Afghanistan? Every major news outlet (all owned by a few corporations, all headed by wealthy white men) participates in churning out the falsehoods that conceal the weeping of the bereaved in Kabul and Kandahar — so that people in North America cannot hear them.

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Berto Jongman

21 Annotated Images Raise Serious Questions

Phi Beta Iota:  The Woolwich Attack is the alleged machette hacking of a serving soldier by an alleged Muslim who allegedly was heard to say “an eye for an eye.”

See Also:

DuckDuckGo / Woolrich Attack

Google Web / Woolrich Attack

A new giant vaccine scandal exposes government lies and psyops

Jon Rappoport

If you control the use of words and numbers, you can make trillions of dollars, and you can hide scandals that would otherwise take you down into infamy and prison.

You can pretty much operate a whole sector of society and remain untouched.

Nowhere is this more clear than in the criminal work of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The real name of that agency should be: Centers for Disease Information Control. That’s what they do. They manipulate words and numbers to present fictional images to the public.

They’re a tax-funded PR front for the medical cartel. A 24/7 psyop.

“Yes, of course I’m a criminal. I work for the CDC.”

Here is the latest blockbuster.

After writing about fake vaccine science since 1988, I thought I’d seen it all:

Wild falsehoods about vaccines creating immunity; suppressed information about toxic ingredients in the shots; the absence of proper controlled studies proving vaccines are safe and effective.

But now Peter Doshi, PhD, writing in the online BMJ (British Medical Journal), reveals a new monstrosity. It’s all based on the revelation that most “flu” is not the flu.

Follow this closely. If you blink, you might miss it.

You see, as Doshi states, every year, hundreds of thousands of respiratory samples are taken from flu patients in the US and tested in labs. Here is the kicker: only a small percentage of these samples show the presence of a flu virus.

This means: most of the people in America who are diagnosed by doctors with the flu have no flu virus in their bodies.

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