The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Brain-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.
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.
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.
There is an excellent overview of the new book by James Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, and I recommend the overview to one and all:
In Book, Former Defense Chief Mattis Sideswipes President Trump's Leadership Skills
I will not be spending time or money on this book because I know from experience that General Mattis, who means well, simply does not get it. President Trump was absolutely right to fire him. Below are a few of my thoughts.
Continue reading “Robert Steele: James Mattis — A Leadership Failure?”
The Plain View Project is a database of public Facebook posts and comments made by current and former police officers from several jurisdictions across the United States.
Phi Beta Iota: All US police trained by Israel should be required to attend a remediation course that corrects all the brutality and bias taught by the Zionists.
Coming to Terms with Anticipatory Intelligence
Fundamentally, anticipatory intelligence is about the anticipation of emergence. As clear and compelling as the case for anticipatory intelligence is, it remains poorly understood. A primary reason for this goes back to the aforementioned tendency to take hasty action before understanding.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: War on the Rocks – Anticipatory Intelligence – Perfumed Bullshit?”
Smart Software but No Mention of Cathy O’Neil
Phi Beta Iota: “Smart” software is not smart. It is biased, dangerous, and stupid. Not only does search profer what someone has paid for you to see, and then only from the 1% of the knowledge that is online, but software that “grades” human tests is a crime against humanity.
