Berto Jongman: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL RELEASES GLOBAL TRENDS REPORT

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Berto Jongman

  NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL RELEASES GLOBAL TRENDS REPORT

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Intelligence Council (NIC) today released the seventh edition of its quadrennial Global Trends report. Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World is an unclassified assessment of the forces and dynamics that the NIC anticipates are likely to shape the national security environment over the next 20 years.

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Def Dog: What Will The Western Half Of The US Look Like During “The Second Dust Bowl”?

Corruption, Government

Scientists have begun using the term “megadrought” to describe the multi-year drought that has been plaguing the western half of the country, and now we are being told that it looks like 2021 will be the worst year of this “megadrought” so far by a wide margin. That is extremely troubling news, because major water reservoirs have already dropped to dangerously low levels, some farmers have been told that they will not be allowed to use any water at all this year, and the dust storms in the western U.S. are becoming so large that they can actually be seen from space. This is a major national crisis, and it is only going to get worse.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Facebook and Microsoft: Communing with the Spirit of Security

Corruption, Government

Two apparently unrelated actions by bad actors. Two paragons of user security. Two. Count ‘em.

The first incident is summarized in “Huge Facebook Leak That Contains Information about 500 Million People Came from Abuse of Contacts Tool, Company Says.” The main point is that flawed software and bad actors were responsible. But 500 million. Where is Alex Stamos when Facebook needs guru-grade security to zoom into a challenge?

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