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Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity | Remaking America. Negentropy Overrated? - Less Wrong Discussion. Global Conflicts Portal. INSPIRE / NEWS & ARTICLES. The Sustainable City, keynote address by Antanas Mockus The keynote speaker for The Sustainable City was introduced to us as a man that used less than $1 000 for his mayoral campaign and no advertisements. As part of his time as mayor of Bogota, Columbia, Antanas Mockus filmed himself showering during the Columbian water shortage, where he would turn off the water when soaping up. This is a man using creative strategies to solve unsustainable issues. Mockus started out with quotes from Vikto Schlovsky, “things are continuously getting grey, art gives back colours, you rediscover the old things under a new light, or you discover the new thing under a old light.”

Mockus is a mayor that uses the power of art to change his city, what he terms “sub-art”. Mockus once cut a heart-shaped hole in his bullet proof jacket to show his trust in the people. His projects, some seeming to be a joke, were effective in lowering the crime rate. Rewards for responsibility The Sustainable City. City dreams. Pentagon to Shutter Anti-Terrorism Database. Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned | World news. David Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty, impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York, at just 10 years old. For a young, black American boy with a father in jail, trouble was everywhere. Williams also made bad choices. He ended up going to jail for dealing drugs. When he came out in 2007 he tried to go straight, but money was tight and his brother, Lord, needed cash for a liver transplant. Life is hard in Newburgh if you are poor, have a drug rap and need cash quickly.

His aunt, Alicia McWilliams, was honest about the tough streets her nephew was dealing with. Even more shocking was that the organisation, money, weapons and motivation for this plot did not come from real Islamic terrorists. Lawyers for the so-called Newburgh Four have now launched an appeal that will be held early next year. Some experts agree. But the issue is one that stretches far beyond Newburgh. The homes of the Fort Dix Five were raided by the FBI. DARPA. DARPA's former headquarters in the Virginia Square neighborhood of Arlington.

This agency recently moved to 675 North Randolph Street, near the Ballston Common Mall. DARPA began as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements.[3] The administration was responding to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957, and ARPA's mission was to ensure U.S. military technology be more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies. From DARPA's own introduction:[4] DARPA’s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U.S. into space. History[edit] DARPA achievements for the past 50 years Early history[edit] Later history[edit] Recent history[edit]

The Real Christmas Story. By Rev. JESSE L. JACKSON This Christmas, times continue to be hard for many. And that — amid all the presents, parties and holiday gaiety — is the real story of this mass we celebrate on the birth of Christ. As I’ve reminded throughout the years, the real story isn’t about a holiday; it is about a holy day. It’s about two people summoned from their home and forced to travel to register so the Roman occupiers could count them. The couple had no place to stay. Just as now, those weren’t normal times.

Wise men from the East saw a bright star in the sky and knew that the Messiah had come. Why was the mighty Herod so fearful? The birth of the Messiah foretold a transformation that rightly threatened the Roman governors, the moneychangers, the elites of the time. Christmas should be a time when we hear this message. Christmas 2010 saw the United States fighting two wars on the other side of the world. We do have many blessings, and in small ways, some of us might be better off than last year. Robert David Steele. Steele was a candidate for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election until 23 February 2012.[2] Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Career[edit] Steele, an international proponent of OSINT, argues that both reports, while recent, still ignore his decades of advocacy for a proper national focus on OSINT from 1988 to date.

He left the military in 1993. Reform Party candidacy[edit] Bibliography[edit] All of the following works were self-published by Steele: On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA, 2000). Film appearances[edit] Notes[edit] External links[edit] Documentaries, a Mega-List | re-configure.org. Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in Bazaar for Cyber Arms. The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies. In the salons above him, merchants of electronic interception demonstrate their gear to government agents who have descended on the Malaysian capital in early December for the Wiretapper’s Ball, as this surveillance industry trade show is called. As he tries to detect hacker threats lurking in the wireless networks, the man who helps manage a Southeast Asian country’s Internet security says there’s reason for paranoia.

The wares on offer include products that secretly access your Web cam, turn your cell phone into a location-tracking device, recognize your voice, mine your e-mail for anti-government sentiment and listen to supposedly secure Skype calls. He isn’t alone watching his back at this cyber-arms bazaar, whose real name is ISS World. ‘We Meet Again’ Warning Attendees Still, Lucas describes Spy vs. ‘Hide Your Laptop’ Philip Agee - 100 Search Engines - Why use one, when you can have 100 Search Engines. Philip Agee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (July 19, 1935 – January 9, 2008) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 ...... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ philip _ agee Philip Agee , 72, Is Dead; Exposed...

Jan 10, 2008 ... Philip Agee was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who turned against the agency and spent years exposing undercover American ...... www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/obituaries/10 ag Philip Agee Philip Agee worked as a case officer for the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1957 to 1968. Www.philipagee.com/ Philip Agee : Biography Philip Agee was born on 19th July 1935. Www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/jfkagee.htm CIA Diary: Inside the Company by Philip Agee excerpts from the book. Www.thirdworldtraveler.com/cia/cia_diary_ a Philip Agee , 72; Agent Who Turned Against CIA Jan 10, 2008 ...

Www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article OBITUARIES- Philip Agee Phil Agee profiles | LinkedIn. Politics Home Page : Roll Call. The @RollCallPols Blog By Kyle Trygstad Brown, right, is running for Senate. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) MARIETTA, Ga. — If one knew of Rep. Paul Broun only from a 90-minute Senate candidate forum Tuesday, it wouldn’t be obvious he is the cause of so much heartburn among Republican strategists from Capitol Hill to Atlanta — all hoping to hold the party’s most vulnerable open seat. Grimm Raises Sizable Sum, Despite Balcony Incident By Emily Cahn Embattled Rep. First Karen Handel TV Ad Features Sarah Palin Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, one of about a half-dozen Republicans running in the Peach State’s open Senate contest, will hit the airwaves Monday with a new ad that prominently features former Alaska Gov.

Review: Breaking the Real Axis of Evil–How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025. Edit of 21 Dec 07 to add links and new comment, New Comment: In my view, this is the single most important work of the century with respect to American moral diplomacy. I note with concern that under Bush-Cheney “Failed States” have increased from 75 in 2005 to 177 in 2007. We’ve lost our mind, and our morals, as a Nation. Ambassador Mark Palmer puts to rest all those generally unfair stereotypes of Foreign Service Officers as “cookie pushing” softies who fall in love with their host countries and blame America for any flaws in the bi-lateral relationship. With this book he provides an inspiring model for precisely what every Foreign Service Officer should aspire: to understand, to articulate, and then to implement very great goals that serve democracy and help extend the bounty of the American way of life–moral capitalism and shared wealth–to every corner of the world.

This is a detailed and practical book, not just visionary. Also recommended, with reviews: Allen Welsh Dulles. Allen Welsh Dulles (April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the CIA during the early Cold War, he oversaw Operation Ajax, the Lockheed U-2 Program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Following the assassination of John F Kennedy, Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission.

Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration. Early life and family[edit] Dulles graduated from Princeton University, where he participated in the American Whig-Cliosophic Society,[3] and entered the diplomatic service in 1916. Early career[edit] During the late 1920s and early 1930s, he served as legal adviser to the delegations on arms limitation at the League of Nations. CIA career[edit] Coup in Iran[edit] INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., CASE STUDY. From December 1963 until his death in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to "neutralize" him as an effective civil rights leader.

In the words of the man in charge of the FBI's "war" against Dr. King: No holds were barred. We have used [similar] techniques against Soviet agents. The FBI collected information about Dr. FBI informants in the civil rights movement and reports from field offices kept the Bureau's headquarters informed of developments in the civil rights field. The FBI's formal program to discredit Dr. Congressional leaders were warned "off the record" about alleged dangers posed by Reverend King. The FBI's program to destroy Dr. The FBI mailed Dr. The campaign against Dr. The FBI campaign to discredit and destroy Dr. The extent to which Government officials outside of the FBI must bear responsibility for the FBI's campaign to discredit Dr. Mr. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. The CHAIRMAN. Mr.

Church Committee. Background[edit] Overview[edit] In 1975 and 1976, the Church Committee published fourteen reports on various U.S. intelligence agencies', formation, operations, and the alleged abuses of law and of power that they had committed, with recommendations for reform, some of which were later put in place. Among the matters investigated were attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Diem brothers of Vietnam, Gen.

René Schneider of Chile and Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles's plan (approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower) to use the Sicilian Mafia to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba. Under recommendations and pressure by this committee, President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11905 (ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban U.S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders. Committee members[edit] Opening mail[edit] Aftermath[edit] Philip Agee. Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (July 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008)[1] was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary,[2] detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico.

After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices.[3][4][5] A co-founder of CovertAction Quarterly, he died in Cuba in January 2008.[6] Early years[edit] Agee was born in Tacoma, Florida.[7] He graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 1956, and attended the University of Florida College of Law.[7] Leaving CIA[edit] Agee stated that his Roman Catholic social conscience had made him increasingly uncomfortable with his work by the late 1960s leading to his disillusionment with the CIA and its support for authoritarian governments across Latin America.

Kalugin states that: She Gives Spies a Bad Name - December 16, 2004. Book Review Blowing my Cover: My Life as a CIA Spyby Lindsay Moran For nearly 20 years, I was a case officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations. I ran foreign agents in China. I had many alias passports and held clandestine meetings in strange hotel rooms all over the world. I was there when Tiananmen Square erupted in 1989; I still possess spent bullets that vengeful Chinese soldiers shot through my apartment walls that day. I was also in Cairo and in a lot of other places I don't talk about, even though I've been officially ex-Agency for five years. Lindsay Moran, valedictorian of her Harvard class, joined the CIA in 1998,and after three years of training at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., she spent only two years of service in Macedonia before leaving to get married.

I'm being kind. Want to know how the Agency trained case officers in the 1980s through the 1990s? Ms. Ms. Ms. It's hard to find Ms. Ms. The reader soon realizes the real reasons why Ms. Perhaps Ms. Ms. Ms. Ms. Ms. Lindsay Moran. Lindsay Moran (born 18 December 1969) is a former clandestine officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. She is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. In 2005 she published her memoir Blowing My Cover, My Life As A Spy, in which she wrote about her experiences as a case officer from 1998 to 2003.

Early years[edit] After graduating from Harvard, she won a Fulbright scholarship and then became an English teacher in Bulgaria.[5] In 1998, she was employed by the CIA and quit the job after five years. Clandestine career[edit] After graduating from Harvard and submitting an application that included her language skills and her time living in Eastern Europe as a Fulbright scholar, Moran was quickly recruited to work for the CIA. After graduating from "The Farm", Moran was deployed to Skopje, Republic of Macedonia under the official cover of a foreign diplomat. Book published[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] United States and state terrorism. Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Cardinal Richelieu.

Realpolitik. John Stockwell.