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Worth A LookJournal: Drones versus Pioneers–Defining the Finish Line
04 Education, Civil Society, Cultural IntelligenceA foolish article about a foolish survey about a foolish educational system captures all that is wrong with America today. The best and the brightest become hackers and self-directed pioneers (Richard Stahlman is the most righteous, Bill Gates the most obvious). The “well-behaved” are the ones that cross “the finish line” because they do not question authority and they actually believe that 18-25 years of rote education and extended childhood is good for them.
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Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags a Brave Journalist & Troops in a No-Win Afghan Dogfight
05 Civil War, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Military
Up Close and Personal: Portrait of an Afghan Firefight
Chuck Spinney in CounterPunch
Landay documents only a single firefight, but his description of it suggests some troubling questions that put the entire efficacy of our military's new counter-guerrilla strategy into sharper relief.
CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 10 September 2009
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AA: Gulf states grapple with jihadist threat 09/09/09
AA: Terrorists Shift Focus to Hotels and ‘Soft' Targets, Study Says 09/08/09
AA: Resolving the displaced Palestinians problem 09/10/09
AF: The Reporter's Account: 4 Days With the Taliban 09/09/09
BH: NSA official to testify in terror trial 09/10/09
EG: Egyptians irked by ‘Ramadan Eating' arrests 09/09/09
KZ: Kazakhstan Blows Its OSCE Leadership 09/06/09
LB: Lebanon struggles to form unity government 09/10/09
PK: Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan in disarray 09/09/09
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Journal: Pigion Beats Broadband, DNI Blows $20B
Commerce, Government, Reform, TechnologiesWith a tip of the hat to MILNET, these two stories go so very well together, they had to be combined her.
Telkom says it cannot be blamed for slow broadband services at a Durban-based company which claims a pigeon can carry its data bundles faster. . . . . . . . In total it took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds for Winston the pigeon to fly to Hillcrest and to upload the data from the card on to the call centre system. By that time, the ADSL transmission of the same data size was about 4% complete.
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2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
About the Idea, Briefings & LecturesSHORT URL: https://tinyurl.com/USDI-OSINT
I have sought to help USDI on multiple occasions, and failed every time. Here is the 2009 effort, with the assistance of Dr. Joseph Markowitz, who also failed to get CIA to take OSINT seriously.
- PPT (6 Pages): 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership Briefing
- PPT (18 Pages): 2009 DoD OSINT Staff Briefing
Complete briefings (graphics & script) below the fold.
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Reference: Citizens Rule Book
11 Society, Civil Society, Ethics, ReformAmerica has been dumbed down with deliberation, not only in the schools, but in the legal system. Citizens have a right to not only find anyone not guilty REGARDLESS OF THE “LAW” but also to overturn the law itself in the face of the common sense of the jury.
