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The BMWi electric Car and SUV

Although Chicago is included in this video teaser I’m still confident the PR campaign by BMWi for their new Efficient Dynamics Concept series of electric vehicles i3 and the i8 will include Milwaukee again.

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BMW, Milwaukee and the Calatrava

bmw_calatravaNice to see BMW is still using Milwaukee’s Calatrava  promoting their 5 GT Series.  Okay so they Photoshop’d the image….

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Latest read: Legacy of Ashes – The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner wrote an extraordinary book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.  He traced the origin back to World War II and movements by former Office of Strategic Services Officers to run the new agency in a post war world.
Legacy of Ashes - The History of the CIAWeiner’s research (over 50,000 documents and interviews with agents and over a dozen CIA Directors) is priceless.  Legacy of Ashes won the 2007 National Book Award for non-fiction.

I cannot help but look back at sections of his book regarding the CIA’s role in Vietnam from 1954-1975. Weiner book helps indicate where the CIA is today as an organization, regarding their war on terror….also known as the ‘transnational anti-terrorism activities’ including implications of human rights abuses.

Weiner’s rich history of CIA’s vast amount of intelligence gathering required by Presidnets Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon is no surprise, however I was surprised by Weiner’s documentation regarding Kennedy’s distain for the agency and its Director former Air Force General Charles Cabell.