The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Et tu, Brute?
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Ex-IAEA Chief Warns on Using Unverified Intel to Pressure Iran
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Blix, who clashed with US officials when he was head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq from 2000 to 2003, said he has long been skeptical of intelligence that has been used to accuse Iraq and Iran of having active nuclear-weapons programs. “I’ve often said you have as much disinformation as information” on alleged weaponization efforts in those countries, Blix said.
Robert, you are the originator of the concept of a Smart Nation, with your article in 1996 published in the Government Information Quarterly, entitled “Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information.” Quebec is a nation, recognized by Canada, with a distinct culture, a distinct geography, and perhaps a distinct future.
This book shows us once again why Patrick Meier is a thought leader in leveraging emerging technologies for social impact. His book captures the enormous possibilities and avoidable pitfalls of big data, social media and artificial intelligence in crisis contexts. Digital humanitarians can be powerful agents for social change but ground-truthing what we see and hear digitally is more important than ever.
—Aleem Walji, Chief Innovation Advisor, Leadership, Learning, and Innovation, World Bank Group
Phi Beta Iota: The book title and description from the publisher are misleading. This is not a book about Big Data. It is a book about distributed human networks using open source information technologies to achieve situational awareness with a speed and precision that the entire US secret intelligence community (which costs $100 billion a year) cannot match.
See Also:
A Form of Moral Paralysis
Torture and the Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux
CounterPunch, Weekend Edition December 12-14, 2014
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Bottlenose: Not a Dolphin, Another Intelligence Vendor
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The reality of many commercial services, which may or may not apply to Bottlenose, is that:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Bottlenose — Hype without Limit?”
