Americans for Intelligence Reform

Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: A Very Strange Christmas Indeed

                                          A Very Strange Christmas Indeed    by Jeeems Akers “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.”                                                                                               Charles Dickens                                                                                                                      To say this has been an unusual Christmas season is a gross understatement.   As I write this missive, I’m back at home in Springboro, Ohio. Today, we visited dad in […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: VISION IN ACTION: A DAY WITH DANITA’S KIDS       

                           VISION IN ACTION: A DAY WITH DANITA’S KIDS “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”    Helen Keller   “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”                                                                                          Joel A. Barker   “When God is […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: What’s All This Fuss about NFT’s?

           WHAT’S ALL THIS FUSS ABOUT NFT’S?                                          “NFT’s [non-fungible tokens] are having their big-bang moment: collectors and speculators have spent more than $200 million on an array of NFT-based artwork, memes and GIFs in the past month alone, according to market tracker NonFungible.com, compared with $250 million throughout all of 2020.”                                                                                                  Andrew […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: A remarkable homecoming

                                      A PUMP, AN OUTHOUSE, AND A REMARKABLE HOMECOMING          “I was travelin’ west a buckskin on my way to a cattle run    ‘Cross a little cactus desert under a hot blisterin’ sun    I was thirsty down to my toenails, stopped to rest me on a stump    But I tell ya I just couldn’t believe it when I saw that […]

Sunday Coffee with Jeemes: Just one more holiday season

                    JUST ONE MORE HOLIDAY SEASON                                          “Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.”                                                                                           John Boswell   “In my research, I have been astonished to find that so many other people also know little of the lives of their […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: ARE WE LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?

ARE WE LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?   by Jeemes Akers “Our temptation to improve ourselves through our own machines—“big brains” in the 50s, or artificial intelligence today—is hardwired into who we are as humans. We don’t just want to play God, we want to beat God, building artificial intelligence that’s better than the non-artificial kind. […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: SPRINGBORO’S TREASURE TROVE OF MEMORIES

SPRINGBORO’S TREASURE TROVE OF MEMORIES   “If it suddenly ended tomorrow   I could somehow adjust to the fall   Good times and riches and son of a bitches   I’ve seen more than I can recall …   It’s these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes   Nothing remains quite the same   Through […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: Two Puppies and God’s love

TWO PUPPIES by Katy Skaggs So I had a preacher moment this morning.  I have two puppies- well, they are adults now but I still refer to them (and will until the day they die) as “puppies.” One is an exuberant, in your face personality, whereas the other is more laid back and mellow. Melancholy […]

Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeemes: DESIGNER PROTEINS

     PUSHING THE BIOGENETIC ENVELOPE: DESIGNER PROTEINS by Jeemes Akers “As laboratories incubate new blends of man and machine … The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political—and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone’s deeply held beliefs. Venter’s bombshell [the creation of […]

The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian

 Posted on September 11, 2019  The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian  In 2005, THE EPOCH TIMES acquired a secret speech given by Defense Minister Chi Haotian to high-level Communist Party Cadres sometime before his retirement in 2003. Details given in Chi’s speech coincide with previously unpublished defector testimony on Sino-Russian military plans. The speech follows: Comrades, I’m […]