The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The best they could do.
PDF (31 Pages): (U) 2014 US IC DNI Threat to SSCI 29 Jan 14
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: 2014 Worldwide Threat Assessment — Moderately Retarded?”
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.”
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: DNI Pays $12M to Improve Human Reasoning”
Huh?
Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant
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.
Continue reading “Mini-Me: Is Google Stupid? Here's The Plan — and the Phi Beta Iota Alternative”
People who are truly knowledgeable about IT are appalled about what the NSA is doing and, as this report shows, they are speaking out.
Open Letter From Top U.S. Computer Security Experts Slams NSA Spying As Destroying Security
WashingtonsBlog
An open letter today from a large group of professors – top US computer security and cryptography researchers – slams the damage to ecurity caused by NSA spying:
Inserting backdoors, sabotaging standards, and tapping commercial data-center links provide bad actors, foreign and domestic, opportunities to exploit the resulting vulnerabilities.
The value of society-wide surveillance in preventing terrorism is unclear, but the threat that such surveillance poses to privacy, democracy, and the US technology sector is readily apparent.
Continue reading “SchwartzReport: NSA Is Making Us All Less Safe”
End-Game: Criminalizing ALL Protest
Another depressing story of government-corporate corrupt cooperation, especially involving intelligence and law enforcement agencies. An image of fascism in motion. This section of the article refers to Canadian activities of said agencies:
Continue reading “Owl: Canada and US Treat Anti-Frackers as Terrorists”
You have probably noticed in stories about Colorado that the newly legal Marijuana business is run on a cash only basis because banks will not provide banking services. And you may remember the piece I ran the other day about how the government secretly was in league with one of the major Mexican drug cartels. Th! at led me to wonder whether the banks also had a secret deal. And, once again, a little digging turned up evidence that this was the case.
This makes the hypocrisy of the entire War on Drugs even more blatant and its inherent racism even more evident. Nothing about the War on Drugs is what it appears, except the destruction of hundreds of thousands of families and the endless incarceration of Black and Brown kids.
Big Banks Launder Hundreds of Billions of Illegal Drug Cartel Money … But Refuse to Provide Services for Legal Marijuana
WashingtonBlog
Phi Beta Iota: The banks are following federal guidelines designed to screw the street-level merchants while ignoring the high crimes of the major banks doing the billion dollar money-laundering.
For America, Denial Is a River in Iraq
by JP Sottile, Antiwar.com, January 18, 2014
Americans don’t know much about geography.
In 2006, three years into the bloody War on Iraq, 63% of Americans aged 18-24 couldn’t find the “target-rich” nation on a map.
To be fair, only half could find New York State on a map, so it is unsurprising that, in spite of its then-dominance of the news cycle, they couldn’t locate the principal fixation of American foreign policy on a map that still brims with U.S. military bases and deployments.
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Denial & Ignorance in America”
