The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”
Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as “surveillance companies.” Their rebranding as “social media” is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.
Crime Prediction: Not a New Intelligence Analysis Function
We noted “New Orleans Ends Its Palantir Predictive Policing Program.” The interest in this Palantir Technologies’ project surprised us from our log cabin with a view of the mine drainage run off pond. The predictive angle is neither new nor particularly stealthy. Many years ago when I worked for one of the outfits developing intelligence analysis systems, the “predictive” function was a routine function.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Fired by New Orleans — Is US Army Being Stupid?”
South Korean Report on Summit Discredits U.S. Elites' Assumption
… the full report by South Korean president Moon Jae-in’s national security adviser on the meeting with Kim last week—covered by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency but not covered in U.S. news media—makes it clear that Kim will present Trump with a plan for complete denuclearization linked to the normalization of relations between the U.S. and North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). [Emphasis added.]
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Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930?
Republicans lately congratulating themselves on a dominance not seen since 1928, might revisit what happened to the Class of 1928.
In 1930, Republicans lost 52 House seats, portending the loss of both houses of Congress and the White House in 1932 to FDR who would go on to win four straight terms. For the GOP, the ’30s were the dreadful decade. Is the GOP staring at another 1930?
Perhaps.
Continue reading “Pat Buchanan: GOP Is Hosed — 1928 Reprise?”
Expansibility and Army Intelligence
Rose P. Keravuori
Parameters
Winter 2017 (18/11)
The US Army has arguably not fought a capable state adversary since World War II. Now, after decades of conducting limited interventions, the expansibility and adaptability of military intelligence capabilities are in question. . . . During interviews for this study, intelligence leaders repeatedly mentioned three areas that require special attention in order to expand the Army intelligence corps: (1) shortages of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets; (2) limited processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) capacities; and (3) insufficient human intelligence and counterintelligence capacities.
Continue reading “Rose P. Keravuori: Army Intel Weak — Can It Expand? No.”
