The other day I was watching the June 24, 2015 CSPAN coverage of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta and other government officials and vendors testified at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s second hearing on the cause and extent of a data breach of the OPM information systems. I was […]
President’s National Insider Threat Policy signed in 2012 still “not being fully implemented across the intelligence community”, report notes
Contained within the pages of a Senate Select Intelligence report 114-8, dated in March 2015 is an explanation on the efforts currently under way by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ONDI) to deal with the ongoing threat posed by insiders, like US Army private Bradley Manning who leaked millions of documents through Wikileaks (https://wikileaks.org/index.en.html ). Toward this […]
“So I say to my Senate colleagues, respectfully–and I mean that–stop banging your heads against the wall”, said Senator Reid
On June 25, 2015 Senator Harry Reid of Nevada asked permission to address the United States Senate regarding the Affordable Care Act and Republican’s attempts to repeal or weaken the law, which was just upheld by the Supreme Court on June 25, 2015: “Mr. President, today in this great country of ours the Affordable Care […]
UN: in expectation of the wind of changes
World War II demonstrated the necessity of collective security development. Many years ago the League of Nations didn’t manage to prevent one of the most tragically page of modern history. Thus, the League of Nations was substituted by more advanced organization, such as the UN. But now, 60 years later, we see that history repeats […]
World Leaders Speak Out Against Nuclear Iran
The U.S. Representative office of the NCRI will be holding an online conference on Thursday, June 25th, The conference will begin at 10:30 am (EST) (16:30 Central European Time)releasing a detailed report on the nuclear negotiations and how Iran is using the talks to keep its nuclear infrastructure intact. NCRI-US Deputy Director Alireza Jafarzadeh will make […]
ISIL begins policy to pay its fighters in gold and silver coins
The Islamic State terror organization (ISIL) has began minting its own gold dinars in a bid to break free from what it calls “the global economic order”, UK’s Telegraph cited sources in ISIL-controlled Iraqi territories as saying. Gold is considered, not only “a wise financial investment in uncertain trimes, but it is also a tangible asset, and hedge against inflation. […]