The Pentagon Has Officially Joined the War on Alternative Media
Ed Jewett: US Intelligence Community Admits Ineptitude with Open Source Information
Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
Intel Community Grapples With Key Open Source Intel
“In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central Command.
Koko: Insect Apocalypse — 50x Increase in Pesticides
03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy
Insect ‘apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill.
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Berto Jongman: Matt Taibbi on Pentagon Idiocy — Control the News? Seriously?
Idiocy, Military
The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong?
The Pentagon is using a moral panic over “fake news” to gain influence over the domestic news landscape
If there’s a worse idea than the Pentagon becoming Editor-in-Chief of America, I can’t remember it. But we’re getting there.
Berto Jongman: Neuro-Capitalism – Your Brain Has No Rights.
Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO ImpotencyBrain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.
In the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights.
Phi Beta Iota: As with cyber-security (Robert Steele wrote the first warning to the White House in 1994), nothing is being done. Total abdication of all responsibility, once again.
Chuck Spinney with Pierre Sprey & Winslow T. Wheeler: Bankrupt and Irrelevant – the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending
Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
Bankrupt and Irrelevant: the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending
In the almost 12 hours of Democratic Party presidential primary debates on June 26-27 and July 30-31, the words “Pentagon budget” or “defense spending” were not uttered, except for a fleeting, unanswered comment from Senator Bernie Sanders. Nor did any of the cable news moderators ask a single question about the more than $1.25 trillion dollars spent in 2019 for national security.
John Petersen: Adam Gopnik Is Intelligence Intelligent? Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?
The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate.
The universal law of unintended consequences rules with a special ferocity in espionage and covert action, because pervasive secrecy rules out the small, mid-course corrections that are possible in normal social pursuits.
