Communities of Practice – Page 688 – Public Intelligence Blog

I am all for slipshod work, particularly when delivered by government contractors. Hey, the emphasis is on scope changes and engineering change orders, not on delivering what the wild and crazy statement of work requires.

I was delighted to read the Hacker News thread at http://bit.ly/MW4epC about broken links and missing data sets on Data.gov at www.data.gov. The thread contains a number of interesting comments. These may be evidence that substandard attention to detail suggests digital eczema. Just Bing it.

Examples range from corrected links that fail to odd ball outputs. See, for example, http://1.usa.gov/1qiegkT. There are some gems in the comments; for instance, http://1.usa.gov/1lI1Fqj.

In the early days of www.firstgov.gov, some effort was expended to minimize the number of dead links on US government servers. In the present incarnation as www.usa.gov, there are some interesting changes.

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2014/03/072014/03/07

Berto Jongman: Full Text of Edward Snowden Testimony to European Parliament

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call

PDF (12 Pages): Introductory Statement & Answer to Questions

Highlights:

00 The included links are a “best of the best” selection of media stories.

01 EU security agencies have created a bazaar allowing NSA to get it all.

02 There are many other undisclosed programs.

03 According to Snowden, at least ten specific individuals are liable for failing to act on his alarm — those names are being withheld by Booz Allen and the various US agencies and Snowden has not named them himself.

04 “The culture within the US Intelligence Community is such that reporting serious concerns about the legality or propriety of programs is much more likely to result in your being flagged as a troublemaker than to result in substantive reform.”

05 Oversight focuses on limiting public discovery rather than on enforcing the limits of the law.

06 Indiscrinate economic intelligence is the true purpose of such technical collection programs as do work.

07 Defensive intelligence is more important to democracies than offensive intelligence — NSA and GCHQ have been obsessing on offensive intelligence (economic and political espionage) in what they process, while continuing indiscriminate mass surveillance that does not appear to have been processed, only stored against future possible exploitation.

Full Text with Links Below the Line

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2014/03/052014/03/05

Yoda: FINALLY — Federal Government Kills One Canary with Marijuana Overdose

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement

Here's An Updated Tally Of All The People Who Have Ever Died From A Marijuana Overdose

With recreational pot now for sale in Colorado and widespread confusion over a recent satirical story that jokingly claimed 37 people had already died of a marijuana overdose, we figured it might be about time to update our weed death count.

So, here's a GIF that still accurately shows all of the people who have died after overdosing on pot:

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota: The federal result, after decades of trying, was achieved by dropping a bale of marijuana on a canary staked to the ground. The fact that it was a bale (source) dropped on the hapless canary (method) was immediately classified TOP SECRET.

See Also:

Marijuana @ Phi Beta Iota

CNN Gupta: ‘I am doubling down' on medical marijuana

2014/03/05

Berto Jongman: Six Ukraine Videos CENSORED in the USA

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War

Videos From Ukraine that The U.S. Media Will Never Show You

The Sugar coated story that the U.S. media has been feeding the public is completely out of sync with the events unfolding on the ground in Ukraine. Here are six videos that you'll never see aired on the mainstream news.

LIST:

1. Ukrainian “protesters” setting fire to police officers

2. “Freedom fighters” brutally beat man with batons while he is down

3. Literal Neo-Nazis openly marking through Kiev displaying their emblems

4. Alexander Muzychko vows to fight “against Jews communists, and Russian scum” for as long as he lives.

5. Muzychko brandishing an Ak-47 in parliament and letting them know who is in charge

6. Right sector members saluting Nazi style and shout nationalist slogans like “Glory to the nation! Death to enemies!” “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”

Access all six videos free online.

See Also:

Gladio B @ Phi Beta Iota

Ukraine @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/03/052014/03/05

Mini-Me: Hillary Clinton is NOT a Moron — She Just Thinks YOU Are…Clinton Compares Putin to Hitler

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War

Huh?

Hillary Clinton compares Putin moves to Hitler's: Report

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has compared Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent steps in Ukraine to aggression by Adolf Hitler in 1930s Nazi Germany, a local paper reported.

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2014/03/042014/03/05

Owl: Wayne Madsen on Top UK Pedophiles — Could Pedophilia be Catalyst for Revolution in UK and US?

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Officers Call

Wayne Madsen: Operation Spade Catching Bigger Pedo Fish in UK Government – Crimea Connection?

Madsen's comments on this story have explosive implications – will the veil finally be lifted revealing many of the 1% of the 1% are pedophles?

“UK Prime Minister's adviser on combating online child porn arrested for possession of child porn. Get ready for the pedo lobby to claim that would-be Lord, Patrick Rock, was “conducting research.” Operation SPADE now engulfs Cameron, along with Merkel's government and US Sen. Lamar Alexander. This story is only going to get bigger. And Azov Films used Crimea as a filming center. What will Russian troops uncover there in the way of evidence?”

UK Prime Minister's adviser on combating online child porn arrested for possession of child porn.

This article mentions many pieces of information, including a significant connection to Stafford VA:

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2014/03/042014/03/04

Berto Jongman: Project Censored 2014

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency, Media

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group–a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff–has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship.

Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13