by zen | Sep 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Big Brother’s little brothers are listening in on your calls, tapping your data When the government and ruling elites fashion a Creepy-State, it inevitably spawns a surveillance arms race. If your private data is...
by zen | Apr 12, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Colonel Keith Nightingale, was featured at Thomas Rick’s Best Defense blog ”future of war” series at Foreign Policy.com. It is a strong piece, well worth reading: The seven ingredients of highly...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jul 10, 2013 | Monitor
[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? My teacher says: peace (sandhi) war (vigraha) observance of neutrality (ásana) marching (yána) alliance (samsraya) making peace with one and waging war with another...
by zen | Jul 4, 2013 | Monitor
Ahem….”I told you so“. “Congress intended to allow the intelligence communities to access targeted information for specific investigations. How can every call that every American makes or receives be relevant to a specific investigation?” ...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jun 29, 2013 | Monitor
[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? Once upon a time… During my first year’s encampment General Scott visited West Point, and reviewed the cadets. With his commanding figure, his quite...
