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Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End, Panel Concludes in Report

Mark Mazzetti

New York Times, 26 June 2014

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killings using armed drones risks putting the United States on a “slippery slope” into perpetual war and sets a dangerous precedent for lethal operations that other countries might adopt in the future, according to a report by a bipartisan panel that includes several former senior intelligence and military officials.

The group found that more than a decade into the era of armed drones, the American government has yet to carry out a thorough analysis of whether the costs of routine secret killing operations outweigh the benefits. The report urges the administration to conduct such an analysis and to give a public accounting of both militants and civilians killed in drone strikes.

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2014/06/272014/06/27

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Has Killed Search — For-gedda-bout-it

IO Impotency

Google: Search Is So Yesterday

Net net: It will become more difficult to obtain objective search results going forward. For a person who needs accurate, timely information the research job is going to get more difficult in the months ahead.

PBI: Google only does shallow web. It can do deep web, but you must pay dearly to be seen. Google has indeed killed search.

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2014/06/272014/06/25

Howard Rheingold: Tools for Consolidating & Accessing Personal Knowledge

IO Tools

This fellow is an infotention superstar. He understands that the tools he uses are means of augmenting his memory, an he knows how to connect tools such as IFTTT, Instapaper, and Evernote. I'm going to start adopting some of the methods Steve recommends.

“This post is the second in series on how I’ve automated augmenting my memory, the first post covered how I create a diary which is my most important and frequently referenced memory aid. This post covers how I automate the creation of my personal knowledge management archive. This archive has been with me for many years now, although it’s expanding at a rapid rate, which makes retrieval one of my primary concerns. In the same way that I’ve found consolidating my diary into a single app, in that case Momento, I consolidate all personal knowledge management information into Evernote which I have on all my devices and the web. Although I started collecting most of this information manually, I’ve found over the years that I don’t have the discipline to do this for anything but the most valuable of information, so it’s almost all automated now. “

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2014/06/262014/06/24

Berto Jongman: Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, 12 Water, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists

Regulations on pesticides have failed to prevent poisoning of almost all habitats, international team of scientists concludes

The world’s most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessment of the chemicals’ impacts.

The researchers compare their impact with that reported in Silent Spring, the landmark 1962 book by Rachel Carson that revealed the decimation of birds and insects by the blanket use of DDT and other pesticides and led to the modern environmental movement.

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2014/06/262014/06/26

Marcus Aurelius: LTG Alexander Charging Wall Street $1M a Month for Telling Them How They Are Vulnerable [Because He & His Predecessors Refused to Protect US C4I as Directed]

07 Other Atrocities, IO Impotency, Officers Call

Accurate? Ethical?

Former NSA Director Charging $1 Million a Month to Reveal US Intelligence Methods. Gen. Keith Alexander, who recently retired from his position at the top of the National Security Agency, is reportedly meeting with top brass from the financial industry to discuss how to best protect sensitive information, and he's likely to charge them a million dollars a month for that advice.

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2014/06/252016/09/27

Robert Steele: Decision Memorandum for LTG Mike Flynn – Consolidating & Catapulting Defense and National Open Source Methods

Advanced Cyber/IO

Robert David Steele

DOC (3 Pages): 01-decision-memorandum-five-non-exclusive-options-2-2

MEMORANDUM 2.2 dated 25 June 2014

Subject: Consolidating & Catapulting Defense and National Open Source Methods

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2014/06/252014/06/25

Patrick Meier: Comprehensive List of UAVs for Humanitarian Response

Drones & UAVs

Comprehensive List of UAVs for Humanitarian Response

Posted on June 24, 2014 | Leave a comment

The Humanitarian UAV Network (UAViators) is carrying out a comprehensive evaluation of UAVs and related technologies for use in humanitarian settings. We’ve developed an evaluation framework for this assessment and have now drafted this list of UAV models to determine which are worth evaluating. As you’ll note, the link also points to three other related lists: cameras, sensors and software for image processing and analysis. We’ll be evaluating these as well to identify which are the best fit for use by humanitarians in the field.

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