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Egyptians in the Street Despise Obama and US Diplomat Anne Patterson

Curiously, a massive wave of anti-Obama sentiment in Egypt has been utterly ignored by vintage media, even though the protests may be the largest in all of human history.

15 Photos From the Tahrir Square Protests You'll Never See In Legacy Media. #Egypt #Morsi #Obama

Phi Beta Iota: The many signs, both hung banners and neatly printed hand posters in perfect English, are clearly “organized” but they are also clearly what the protesters want to say. As a general statement, the US Government and Obama and the US Ambassador are considered to be severely hypocritical and not at all supportive of any form of democracy.

Anne Wood Patterson — Anne Woods Patterson

Unlike many Ambassadors who bought their position with campaign contributions, Anne Woods Patterson is a professional who took 20 years to go from entry level to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and has been an Ambassador to various countries for the past fifteen years. She is considered by Egyptians to be too close to the Muslim Brotherhood.

2013/07/222013/07/22

Stephen E. Arnold: Autonomy – New Kind of Search? Or Does Search Suck Even More These Days?

IO Impotency

Autonomy: A New Kind of Search?

Autonomy was founded in 1996. That was 17 years ago. In my upcoming KMWorld column for August/September, I point out that search, content processing, and even analytics have been consistent for many years. There are a number of reasons for the “sameness” of systems and the corresponding difficulty prospects have in differentiating one system from another.

Perhaps I am off base. Search systems, content processing systems, and analytics systems are very, very different. I am looking at out dated notions such as precision and recall. I am missing the point that search is about interface, “smart” software which knows what I want based on my past behavior, and mobile computing demands search apps which just present information. No information retrieval baloney required like a carefully crafted Boolean query.

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2013/07/13

Mini-Me: $75 Billion a Year, and US IC Still Cuts and Pastes Without Updating Years’ Old Information

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military

Huh?

US Intelligence Report a Cut-Paste on Chinese Missiles

College students can be flunked for cut-and-paste reports, think tankers can be embarrassed, Defense News staff writers can be fired, but not, apparently, members of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).

Most of its so-called “updated” report, 2013 Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, which contains contributions from the Defense Intelligence Agency Missile and Space Intelligence Center and the Office of Naval Intelligence, was largely a cut-and-paste job from its 2009 report. Some of the material is identical to the 2006 and 1998 report.

Though it was reformatted and photographs rearranged with some being enlarged or decreased, the 2013 report appears verbatim from the 2009 report. This clever reordering and reformatting with new color schemes for boxes and graphs is embarrassing since there is more impressive data on Chinese missiles on Wikipedia.

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2013/07/122013/07/13

Chuck Spinney: Insane Insider Threat Program in Context of Morally and Mentally Bankrupt US Intelligence System

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military

Attached herewith is an essay I just wrote for Counterpunch.

For you convenience I have also attached a very important McClatchy report on the Orwellian Insider Threat Program being promoted by the Obama Administration.

The lead co-author, Jonathan Landay, is one of the few mainstream reporters who has been onto the lunacy unleashed by 9-11 from the git go.

My intent in the essay is to place this dangerous craziness in a somewhat larger larger context of our morally and mentally bankrupt intelligence system … judge for yourself whether or not I have been successful.

WEEKEND EDITION

JULY 12-14, 2013

Obama's Amerika

Signature Targeting Comes Home to Roost

by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch

Isla di Elba, Italia

At the core of the drone program is the theory of signature targeting. It is a theory based on the idea that analysts can discern “enemy combatants” from an analysis of outward indicators of patterns of behaviour.

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2013/07/112013/07/11

Berto Jongman: Transatlantic Drug Trade — The US Market Keeps on Growing

10 Transnational Crime, IO Impotency

Transatlantic Drug Trade

Europe, Latin America and the Need to Strengthen Anti-Narcotics Cooperation

Latin American drug networks are increasing their operations in Europe, primarily because the size of the cocaine market has decreased in North America. The appropriate response, argues this briefing paper, is to further improve transatlantic counter-narcotics cooperation. That could include stronger links between anti-drugs programs, enhanced security policies and more.

>Download: English (PDF · 9 pages · 2.0 MB)

Author: Mikael Wigell, Mauricio Romero

Series: FIIA (UPI) Briefing Papers Issue: 132

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2013/07/09

Marcus Aurelius: IBM Tries Something New – The Gist Mill

IO Impotency

Worth a look.

The Gist Mill – Strategic Social Media Analysis

The ability to rapidly ingest, identify, monitor and exploit relationships, trends and collective thought evolving out of Internet-based social networks will be the most critical analytic capability requirement of the next decade. The fact that these networks exist in plain sight, are vastly dense, and capable of near instant mobilization of populations represents their most exploitable feature and their greatest challenge.

Read 2 Page Flyer at Cryptone

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2013/07/092013/07/09

Eagle: Why Should Anyone Ever Trust Microsoft?

Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Open Enterprise
Glyn Moody

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?

Irrespective of the details of the current revelations about US spying being provided by Edward Snowden in the Guardian, there is already a huge collateral benefit. On the one hand, the US government is falling over itself to deny some of the allegations by offering its own version of the story. That for the first time gives us official details about programmes that before we only knew through leaks and rumours, if at all. Moreover, the unseemly haste and constantly-shifting story from the US authorities is confirmation, if anyone still needed it, that what Snowden is revealing is important – you don't kick up such a fuss over nothing.

Read full article with detailed indictments of Microsoft's betrayal of commercial and public trust.

Category: IO Impotency

Owl: US Media Ignores Major Egyptian Protests Focused on Barack Obama & US Ambassador Specifically