Communities of Practice – Page 706 – Public Intelligence Blog

Obama and the State of the Onion Address

Apparently, the President had ingested some kind of weird drug, because when he stepped to the podium he didn’t look at the teleprompter. He just started talking.

“…like every other recent President, when I take to this platform I’m expected to tell a certain number of lies dressed up as the truth. And believe me, folks, I had a few whoppers ready to go.

“But now I feel like doing something else. I’m not going to delve into the many scandals of my administration, because examining them and taking them apart and exposing the lies would keep us here all night and into tomorrow.

“Instead, I just want to explain my overarching agenda. It’s the same agenda every modern President has fronted for. I’m not really doing anything new. That’s a myth.

“You see, in order to become President in the first place, I had to sign on to the scheme to debase, throttle, and weaken this country. I have my methods. Every President has his own.

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2014/01/282014/01/28

Gregory Kulacki: DSB Off Point on Open Source Intelligence Reform + Strong Comment

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

Defense Science Board Off Point on Open Source Intelligence Reform

Gregory Kulacki

Union of Concerned Scientists, 28 January 2013

About the author: Gregory has lived and worked in China for the better part of the last twenty-five years facilitating exchanges between academic, governmental, and professional organizations in both countries. Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he has focused on promoting and conducting dialog between Chinese and American experts on nuclear arms control and space security. His areas of expertise are Chinese foreign and security policy, Chinese space program, international arms control, cross-cultural communication. He received his Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994.

Last week the Defense Science Board (DSB) released a report calling for reforms in the way the U.S. government monitors the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons programs around the world. The Board found there are “gaps” in the U.S. intelligence community’s “global nuclear monitoring” capabilities. It argued that closing these gaps “should be a national priority.” The report recommended adopting “new tools for monitoring,” including looking at “open and commercial sources” with “big data analysis.”

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2014/01/282014/01/28

Berto Jongman: DNI Pays $12M to Improve Human Reasoning

Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Feeling foggy? Intelligence chief James Clapper is brewing a $12 million elixir for you!

Al Kamen

Washington Post, 28 January 2013

No more “high energy” drinks. No more jitters. Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) James Clapper’s office “has embarked on a multi-year research effort to develop and test methods to improve reasoning and problem-solving in healthy, high-performing adults.”

The Monday announcement says that, “If successful, proven methods developed under the Strengthening Human Adaptive Reasoning and Problem-solving (SHARP) program may enhance analysts’ capacity to reason through complex, ambiguous and often novel problems common to the Intelligence Community.”

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2014/01/282014/01/28

Jim Dean: CNN & Amanpour – Lacking Integrity?

Corruption, Media

Did CNN Knowingly Hype an Intel Psyop Atrocity Report?

Geneva II – CNN throws a Curveball Just before Summit

… by Seth Ferris, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow

[ Editor's note: Corporpate media earned some new stripes in the past week for being in the bag 0f someone's intelligence agency when they want to herd the rest of us like lemmings to the sea.

The attempt to tag Assad with an anonymous single source mega-atrocity is being laughed at worldwide.

Intelligence people are wondering how could CNN have been suckered into to this when they had to know that the story was just unbelievable.

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2014/01/28

Protocol Over Politics – Restoring Agency to the Public with Open Source Liquid Democracy

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics, YouTube

NOTES:

Industrial era institutions have failed — need a new way of organizing.

Liquid demoracy, liquid feedback delegates trust.

Politics about decision-making but no software captures how decisions are made and carried forward.

AGENCY is the deinstituionalization (disintermediation) os as to move agency back to the people.

Institutions cannot currently interact with networks (e.g. “outreach” stinks)

GOAL is to replace institutions with P2P protocols.

2014/01/272014/01/27

Mini-Me: Is Google Stupid? Here’s The Plan — and the Phi Beta Iota Alternative

Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy, IO Impotency

Huh?

Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant

By Marcus Wohlsen
WIRED
01.27.14

Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known for. The web’s most powerful company is filling its shopping cart with artificial intelligence algorithms, robots, and smart gadgets for the home. It’s on a mission to build an enormous digital brain that operates as much like the human mind as possible — and, in many ways, even better.

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2014/01/272014/01/27

Yoda: The NSA’s Losing Argument

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military

The NSA’s Losing Argument

The Editors, Bloomberg, 26 January 2014

Of the many questions that still surround the National Security Agency’s vast global spying operations, one seems especially pertinent: Do they actually work? That is, have they helped to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans?

In the case of the NSA’s phone-data program — in which the agency vacuums up information about essentially every call made by Americans — it’s getting harder and harder for the government to answer yes. The latest evidence comes from a report last week by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent federal agency established on the recommendation of the Sept. 11 Commission to balance the right to liberty against the need to prevent terrorism.

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