BOOK: The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes
BUDGET: Congress Wants More Insight into Cyber, SOF Budgets
CYBER: Cyberwar Increasingly Defined By Espionage and Regional Conflicts, Argues FireEye
CYBER: DDoS New Technique, Warns US-CERT
CYBER: Google Spyware SMS Tracker
CYBER: How Jihadists Use the Internet CYBER: Energy Sector Inforgraphic from Symantec
CYBER: Icefog Cybercriminals Use Java Backdoor to Target US Organizations
CYBER: Romania Rocks as Source of Cybercrime
CYBER: Russian Anti-Terrorism Internet Bill
CYBER: Who Are the Islamic Cyber Resistance?
ETHICS: BENGHAZI – Newly declassified Benghazi testimony: Pentagon told Obama it was terrorism
ETHICS: North Dakota town that thwarted a neo-Nazi takeover
ETHICS: Nun Faces up to 30 Years for Breaking Into Weapons Complex, Embarrassing the Feds ETHICS: Obama's Secret Assassins (JSOG by Naomi Wolf)
Phi Beta Iota: JSOG consists of good people trapped in a bad system. Within its ranks there is severe discontent with the obvious insanity of this system that is now targeting bus drivers and waiters. Lacking, evidently, is integrity at the flag level, integrity sufficient to demand professional intelligence back-stopping of every kill order; and when that is not forthcoming, integrity sufficient to refuse illegal and idiot orders coming from over-promoted clerks.
ETHICS: US Drone Policy & Asymmetric Conflict INTEL: Europeans Ask Assad for Intel on Jihadists
Also: Syria says West talks to Damascus about Islamist rebels
LIFE: Consciousness Research
LIFE: Violence becoming the new norm in America
NSA: Accessing Off Line Computers with Radio Wave Technology
Phi Beta Iota: The Chinese have been doing this for over a decade via electrical circuits, one cna reasonably assume they are at least a decade ahead of NSA on the substance of electronic espionage.
NSA: Bernie Sanders is Pissed — NSA Spying on Congress NSA: Do NSA's Bulk Surveillance Programs Stop Terrorists?
Peter Bergen, David Sterman, Emily Schneider, and Bailey Cahall, National Security Program, New America Foundation, January 2014
NSA: ‘Follow the Money': NSA Monitors Financial World
NSA: German “No Spy” Deal is Dead…Very Very Dead
NSA: Review Panel Casts Doubt on Claims that Bulk Data Collection Prevented Any Terrorist Act
THREAT: North Korea Warning to South Korea US Over Drills
THREAT: Pew Report on Religious Hostilities Reaching Six-Year High
THREAT: Zionist Attack on Syrian Cleric Touring America
Also: Article on Pew Report
WAR: Syria’s Deadly ‘Barrel Bombs’: Assad Regime Uses Devastating, Makeshift Weapon