The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
COMMENT: Ten years the FBI has been watching this do-nothing network and this breaks now? The contempt for Obama appears to have reached uncontrollable levels. Fact #1: the network was launched ten years or more ago. Fact #2: the network has not actually done any spying. The timing of this action appears extraordinarily contemptuous of the White House.
Why Roll Up the Russian Spy Network Now?
At The Next HOPE, we have three scheduled tracks and one unscheduled one which will result in well over 100 hour long presentations. There are several ways for you to browse the schedules and more on the way.
We’re happy to announce that Julian Assange of Wikileaks will be one of the keynote speakers at The Next HOPE, taking place in New York City July 16-18, 2010.
Over the years and particularly within the past couple of weeks, Julian has demonstrated some of the key values of those in the hacker and journalist community who strive to get real information out of the hands of bureaucracy and cover-ups and share it with the rest of the world, all the while protecting the sources.
Julian has been on the front page of newspapers worldwide with the revelation by Wikileaks of a videotape showing a U.S. Army Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff. Previous attempts at uncovering the tape through the government had failed and its release clearly showed that there was no active firefight between U.S. forces and those killed, as had been maintained in official statements.
“WikiLeaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years.” — The National, November 19, 2009
Recently, he has appeared on “Off The Hook” {listen to the episode} and “The Colbert Report” as well as in just about every newspaper in the world. In addition, Julian has been active in the recently announced project to help make Iceland a journalism haven.
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Related:
Recent Australian mini documentary on Julian Assange
Beyond 5 Stars, a Cornerstone Book, Most Extraordinary Strategic DepthDavid Halpern
Amazon has recently been allowing longer reviews by inserting a “Read More” line and I hope this entire review is allowed to stand. It will also be posted to Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, with links back to Amazon.
This is a Beyond Five Stars book. Although there is a fine literature emerging on collective intelligence and wealth of networks–and there is an increasingly robust Open Money movement that also includes local communities currencies that keep the wealth local–this book does something no other book has done–it connects economics to humanity and reality and the intangibles in all their forms.
This is not a book about underground economies, barter systems, alternative currencies, etcetera. It is one of the most profoundly relevant, erudite yet easy to read books I have ever read, with a direct bearing on every aspect of human life, and in particular the role of government as it should be.
The author specifically quantifies the financial and intangible value of “getting along” and being part of deep interconnections that define, drive, and develop (or not) the hidden wealth of nations.
The author has provided an extraordinarily well-organized book with a well-presented series of chapters that left me with so many flyleaf notes I fear I will not do the author and the intellectual tour de force he has provided, quite enough justice. Buy and read the book. Tell elected and appointed leaders about it–or send them a copy of this review. [I am stunned that there are no other reviews as this book was published in 2009.]
Major Contribution, Itself a Bit Turgid, Easily in the Dirty Dozen MUST READS
June 30, 2010
Daniel T. Willingham
I struggled a bit with this book, which is ably and logically presented but does not tell a story as much as it delivers a lecture piece by piece. No doubt my own limitations in play, but this book is so important that I would recommend the publisher sponsor a very small round table including the authors or intellectual sponsors of such books as the five below, with a view to creating a new version of this book that is holistic and actionable on a much larger canvas. Without having read these other books listed below, I would not have appreciated this one as much.
The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
The Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University
Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics
Afghanistan: A report by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reported that the United States does not know the capability of the Afghanistan security forces at this time, Reuters reported 28 June, citing U.S. auditors.
According to the report, rankings used to grade Afghan forces varied greatly from one region to another, personnel numbers for the Afghan army were overstated and widespread corruption and drug abuse among Afghan security forces as well as logistics issues plagued the effort to develop independent Afghan forces.
Comment: Open source information on Afghan security force casualties in April and May tends to reinforce the IG report. As US and Western force casualties began to rise, Afghan Army and Police casualties declined, in open source reporting. The data suggested the Afghans were sitting back, letting US and Western forces engage and be engaged by the Taliban, even in joint operations.
Enlistment in the security forces is a jobs program, rather than a career in the Western sense. There is a strong military tradition in Afghanistan, but it resides primarily in the Pashtuns, who are the Taliban today. When Pashtuns enlist, they are infiltrators from the Taliban. The numbers of Afghan army and police personnel are fictitious, but that should not be news.
UN Intelligence
Books: INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach
Review: A More Secure World–Our Shared Responsibility–Report of the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
Review: Fixing Failed States–A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World
Journal and other entries:
Who's Who in:
EVENT REPORT: State of the Planet 2010, Columbia Univ, New York City
2003 Lewis (UNIDIR) Creating the Global Brain: The United Nations
2009 Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth
Law Enforcement: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Criminal Intelligence Training for Analysts
Law Enforcement: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Criminal Intelligence Training for Front-Line Officers
Poverty Dichotomies: USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network, & “Dead Aid” (poverty reduction vs. wealth creation)
Graphic: Multi-Lateral Sharing
Graphic: UN Tools & Methods (Walter Dorn) Updated
Graphic: United Nations (UN) & Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Intelligence Tribe (8 of 8)
Journal: Anthropology 101–Not Being Listened To
Journal: Corruption–The Global Disease
Journal: Cultural Intelligence (Or Not)
Journal: Haiti–Ready for a Rapid-Response Open-Source-Intelligence-Driven Inter-Agency Multinational Multifunctional Stabilization & Reconstruction Mission…
Journal: Intelligence & Innovation Support to Strategy, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Acquisition
Journal: Three United Nations (UN) Memes Emergent
Journal: United Nations and Information-Sharing
Reference: ClimateGate Rolling Update
Reference: Haiti Rolling Directory from 12 January 2010
Reference: Human Intelligence (HUMINT)–All Humans, All Minds, All the Time
Search: Strategic Analytic Model
Search: United Nations Intelligence Training
Reference: United Nations Terrorism Desirata
Reference: Walter Dorn on UN Intelligence in Haiti
Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game
Search: basics of open source intelligence
Search: Seven Tribes (now Eight Tribes)
Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jerome Glenn
Worth a Look: Eight Books on Securing the Peace and the New Meme “Responsibility to Protect”
Worth a Look: Empathetic Smart Civilization
Worth a Look: Medard Gabel, EarthGame and More
Worth A Look: MobileIron C4I in the Cloud
Worth a Look–UNIDIR on Learn, Adapt, Succeed
Books use:
Intelligence (Public) (158)
Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized) (70)
Books: 2003 PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future
Books: Intelligence for Peace (PKI Book Two) Finalizing
Journals and other entries:
Who's Who in Peace Intelligence (32)
Peace Intelligence Archives (2006-2009)
Peace Intelligence (237)
2004 4 Dec Stockholm Peacekeeping Intelligence Trip Report
Handbook: Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations–A Handbook of Good Practices
Reference: Developing UN Peace Intelligence Capabilities
Reference: Intelligence-Led Peacekeeping
Reference: Map of Multilateral Peace Operation Deployments
Search: four levels intelligence analysis
Search: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
Search: jack davis analytical support for peace
Search: Multinational Engagement (Intelligence)
Search: osint and it’s role in intelligence
Worth a Look: Open Space Re-Invention
Worth A Look: Posted from the Past Including Jack Davis on Leadership in Intelligence Analysis
Worth a Look: First Ever UN Joint Military Analysis Centre Course (October 2009)
Comment: An interesting idea for an alert map would be for “outbreaks of viral inaccuracies.”
Also see HealthMap
