September 2009 – Page 6 – Public Intelligence Blog

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2009/09/242009/09/24

Journal: True Cost Meme

True Cost

Original Source

>>CEI Breaks True Cost of Cap and Trade Treasury Department’s Own Documents CEI’s Christopher C. Horner reveals the true $1,761 per family cost of Cap and Trade legislation with the Treasury Department’s own documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. News of the story has been widely covered in:

CBS News; Obama Admin: Cap and Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 a Year
CBS News; Declan McCullagh’s Response to Skepticism on Cap and Trade Costs
The Investor’s Business Daily; Smoking Papers on Global Warming
The Washington Post; Cap-and-Trade Memos Fire Up the Skeptics
The Politico; Cap and Trade’s Price Tag [Corrected]
CEI’s Openmarket.Org Blog Post by Iain Murray
CEI’s GlobalWarming.Org Blog Post by Christopher Horner

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2009/09/24

Journal: Fighting against ourselves in Afghanistan

05 Civil War, 09 Justice, 10 Security, Ethics, Military

Full Story Online

The U.S. trains forces in Afghanistan that then go to work for the Taliban

Ann Jones

Key Points:

1. Washington and U.S. military out of touch with ground truth and historical-cultural reality in Afghanistan.

2. We are training individuals in US techniques who desert and join the Taliban–we are literally training the Taliban to beat us.

3. Many individuals are re-enrolling under multiple names in order to get the training and the good food, while many others take the training and the food and never come back after their first period of leave (vacation after training).

4. Pashtuns are not joining police and so the Americans are sending non-Pashtuns back into Pashtun territory to act as police–this is so stupid as to be insanely criminal and irresponsible.

Phi Beta Iota: This article was linked to in an earlier post on connecting the dots, but it reads better in Salon and we recommend a careful review–this is journalism at its very best, informing the public about FACTS that the Administration desires to ignore.

2009/09/24

Journal: The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Policies

WIRED MAGAZINE: 17.10

Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. .

The 12 Ideas with Links to Each Sub-Story and Comment

We found four of the ideas to be truly radical.

5. Cut Off Aid to Africa

6. Empty the Prisons

7. Save the Slums

8. Forget Medical Privacy

The rest, including 12, Overhaul the Pentagon, are smoke and mirrors in the absence of a total make-over of the relationship among citizens, information, and how money is allocated in society.

2009/09/242011/04/17

Graphic: Twitter as an Intelligence Tool

Advanced Cyber/IO, Citizen-Centered

Both of these graphics were created for the eight-minute presentation on Real-Time Intelligence that can be viewed by clicking on either graphic (as always, words in Notes).

Twitter is, like most intelligence environments, a very large garbage pit with some potential.

The NYPD now does monitor Twitter and cross-walks anomalous events against Twitter plotted on Trends.

Twitter can also be used to reach a specific individual at a specific time and place, or to harness the dispersed population to observe and report specific conditions or tangible things.

2009/09/242009/09/24

Journal: Barack Obama, College Administrator

Communities of Practice, Ethics, Policies, Reform, Threats

CBS replaying National Review Online