The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again
Stephen E. Arnold: ZyLab History of Innovation
Advanced Cyber/IO
Big data was a popular buzzword a few years ago, making it seem that it was a brand new innovation. The eDiscovery process, however, has been around for several decades, but recent technology advancements have allowed it to take off and be implemented in more industrial fields. While many big data startups have sprung up, ZyLab-a leading innovator in the eDiscovery and information governance-started in its big data venture in 1983. ZyLab created a timeline detailing its history called, “ZyLab’s Timeline Of Technical Ingenuity.” Read full post.
Wayne Madsen: European Political Influence Operations Are «Made in USA»
IO Deeds of War
European Political Influence Operations Are «Made in USA»
In yet another case of pure American hypocrisy on a grand scale, the US Congress has ordered James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, to investigate alleged Russian financing of European political parties over the past decade.
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Berto Jongman: China Penetrates Middle East
02 China, 03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, IO Deeds of PeaceChina's Xi On Whirlwind Tour to Boost Mideast Trade
China actively promoting a new ‘Silk Road' which would involve China as the key power of Eurasia
The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has embarked on a tour of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Officially, he will not be speaking of politics, but only of economy. China is proposing that the states of the Near East participate in the construction of a new « Silk Road » in order to enhance their development and liberate themselves from Western colonialism.
Originally appeared at Voltaire Network
Robert James Beckett: Tim Berners-Lee on Next Big Step – Social Media with a Heart Giving Us Time to Think
Advanced Cyber/IO
We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think | Will Hutton
www.theguardian.com
As even Tim Berners-Lee has recognised, the volume of data with which we’re being bombarded prevents us from engaging in genuine debate
Berto Jongman: Advance Knowledge of ISIS Plots in Europe?
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, IO Deeds of WarIntel agencies had hints of ISIS plot
Source: It wasn't a secret ISIS was targeting Europe
Intelligence obtained by Western security agencies before the November 13 Paris attacks indicated as many as 60 ISIS fighters had been deployed by the group to Europe to carry out attacks on five cities and had already reached European soil, a senior European counterterrorism source told CN.N.
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Berto Jongman: Academics in the Camps – the Life and Death of the Human Terrain System
IO Deeds of Peace, MilitaryThe Life and Death of the Human Terrain System
Christopher Sims, Foreign Affairs, 4 February 2016
The U.S. government’s controversial effort to harness the social sciences in support of its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in an initiative known as the Human Terrain System, was one of the most ambitious and innovative efforts of the post-9/11 era to help warfighters make sense of conflict’s inherent chaos. . . . More than 1,000 personnel were deployed during its duration, from 2007 to 2014 at a total cost of nearly $750 million, making the Human Terrain System the largest investment in a single social science project in U.S. government history.
