Marcus Aurelius: House Republican National Security Policy Paper Plus Grand Strategy RECAP
Government, Ineptitude, Officers Call, Strategy, Threats
The documents have some laudable “ends” and some “ways” that may or may not be appropriate (suitable, feasible, acceptable, etc.). What did not appear to be present were the “means” to be employed.
Better Way Fact Sheet
Better Way Snap-Shot
Better Way FAQ
Better Way Policy Paper
Berto Jongman: NATO Library Guide to Intelligence 2016 — Trump is Right, NATO Should Be Closed Down
Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military
Below is the latest NATO Library guide to intelligence in the open literature.
PDF (95 Pages): NATO Library Guide to Intelligence 2016
Berto Jongman: Putin’s Hydra — Inside the Not So Competent Russian Intelligence Services UPDATE 1
04 Inter-State Conflict, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, IneptitudePutin’s hydra: Inside Russia’s intelligence services
Far from being an all-powerful “spookocracy” that controls the Kremlin, Russia’s intelligence services are internally divided, distracted by bureaucratic turf wars, and often produce poor quality intelligence – ultimately threatening the interests of Vladimir Putin himself.
Berto Jongman: Populist Uprising in Europe with Frame Breakdown of Humanitarian Assistance System
01 Poverty, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, IneptitudeEurope migrant crisis: EU faces ‘populist uprising'
Europe faces a “populist uprising” if it is unable to show people it can control the migrant crisis, former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove has said.
Angelina Jolie Pitt: Refugee system breaking down
Ms Jolie Pitt said that more than 60 million people – one in 122 – were displaced globally – more than at any time in the past 70 years. “This tells us something deeply worrying about the peace and security of the world,” she said, adding: “The average time a person will be displaced is now nearly 20 years.”
Antechinus: Toxic US Media — All Show No Substance
Corruption, Ineptitude, Media
U.S. TV News and Communicative Architecture: Between Manufacturing Consent and Mediating Democracy
By sidelining communicative architectures that facilitate democracy and an informed electorate, dominant journalistic conventions are key components of propaganda, or the manufacture of consent. Cottle and Matthews argue that ‘communicative structures’ or ‘communicative architectures’, are an under-studied and under-recognised instrument for the manufacture of consent. The ‘classic reporting' structure (57.2 %) involves brief updates on stories in the news cycle, which “deliver at best thin accounts of events”. The ‘balance’ structure (18 %) ‘ contest and contention', in which “opposing views and arguments [are] generally given approximately equal weight or representation”, but rarely presents more than two perspectives. “The exposé/investigation frame conforms to the idealized liberal democratic role of journalism as public watchdog where journalists actively set out to investigate, expose, and uncover information and practices that would not otherwise be revealed within the public domain. This includes traditional investigative journalism based on intensive research and exploratory fact-finding as well as exposé journalism of public or private affairs.” This accounted for just 0.4 %.
William Alden: Palantir Imploding – Comments by Robert Steele and Neal Rauhauser
Commerce, Corruption, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Company
A cache of internal documents shows that despite growing revenue, Palantir has lost top-tier clients, is struggling to stem staff departures, and isn’t collecting most of the money it touts in high-value deals.
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Palantir-Gone
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