The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Mike Hayden introduced the important concept of being able to connect the dots across disciplines from ingestion point onwards, not only at the finished production level. Steve Edwards flipped chart to show dots coming it at the top, and Robert Steele added the last three bars, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Information Operations (IO), and all Other.
There was a time when we had the International Standards Organization (ISO) intereseted in possibly creating an ISO series for intelligence as a means of helping the eight tribes of intelligence do more information-sharing and sense-making together. That died in part because standards kill military-industrial-intelligence sweetheart contracts that are not in compliance and no not want to be in compliance–exclusive “single point” lock-in is the Holy Grail for those who abuse the public trust. Standards are right up there with transparency as being threats to the status quo.
This was pulled and colorized, with permission, from Steve Emerson's AMERICAN JIHAD: The Terrorists Living Among Us. Completely apart from all of the pathologies associated with national foreign intelligence are those associated with virtually non-existent domestic intelligence.
This was the original depiction. Since then the media have been separated from the non-governmental organizations (NGO). They were combined initially as a “ground truth” tribe, but are clearly better understood separately. Similarly, as Paul Harper from the UN has pointed out, within each tribe, there are huge schisms and diversities of culture and point of view. Eight tribes are simply a starting point.
This was created by Robert Steele in the 1990's when it became apparent that top-down secrecy-based government was completely unsuited to reality and the needs for public consensus decision-making taking the long-view as advocated by Steward Brand.
The conceptualization of this chart was indirectly influenced by the works of Kirkpatrick Sale and by the Native American concept of “seventh generation” decision-making–making every decision with a profound appreciation for its implications on the seventh generation out (roughly 230 years out at the time).
Epoch B is a phrase used by someone specific that we cannot run down right now.
The logo consists of the Whole Earth within a Rescue Cross, with four symbols: the bowl for food and water; the quill pen for education and communication; the shovel for construction and development; and the stilleto for the inevitable rogues that need to be killed one at a time. On a white field are found the legal name of the non-profit, and our public purpose: creating a prosperous world at peace. We do this, in an expansion of Buckminster Fuller’s practice, by enabling hybrid governance through ethical evidence-based decision-support in the context of transparent, truthful networks of trust.
The outermost border summarizes our two innovative methods for which we are the foremost proponents in the world: Open Source Everything (the only technical solution that is affordable, inter-operable, and scalable) and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2, the only human solution that assures holistic analytics and a grasp of true cost economics).
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This graphic, created by Patrick Steele by merging the Earth photo from NASA with a photo of a young lady touching an electrical orb at a national museum, captures the hope and the vision of Earth Intelligence Network (EIN), a 501c3 Public Charity, and Phi Beta Iota and the Journal of Public Intelligence, the public information endeavors of EIN.
