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Robert Steele: Background Memorandum for LTG Mike Flynn – Open Source Intelligence Requires and Open Source Agency

Advanced Cyber/IO
Robert David Steele
Robert David Steele

DOC (2 Pages): open-source-intelligence-requires-an-open-source-agency

Open Source Intelligence Requires an Open Source Agency

What:  An Open Source Agency (OSA) is a legal, ethical intelligence-gathering and decision-support capability, relying exclusively on sources and methods that are open.  It is a support hub serving all elements of the federal government and the nation as a whole.  It is an essential means for tracking the information explosion in all the hundreds of languages we do not speak.  Open source principles ensure OSA’s dedication to intelligence that is not secret, not expensive, and fully sharable, i.e. democratic.

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Berto Jongman: The Intelligence Services Are The Real Conspiracy Theorists – The Case For The Iraq War Proves It

Advanced Cyber/IO, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Secrets, Officers Call
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

The Intelligence Services Are The Real Conspiracy Theorists

The Case For The Iraq War Proves It

David Shaylor

NeonNettle, 20 June 2014

David Shaylor
David Shaylor

David Shayler is a former intelligence officer with MI5, the UK's domestic security service.  In 1997, he blew the whistle on MI6 funding Al Qaeda to assassinate Colonel Qadhafi of Libya.  He will be writing on intelligence and security issues, and Common Law as the solution to the world‘s problems.

Earlier this month, the prestigious US magazine Life became the latest mainstream publication to attack ‘conspiracy theorists'.  It cited the usual list of concerns – Agenda 21; chemtrails; weather manipulation; Obama's birth certificate – dismissing conspiracy theorists as gun-totin' right wing Christian extremists.

Hearteningly, the comments in response to the article proved that actually the thinking man in the street has seen through these kind of glib assertions on the part of journalists well-rewarded by the mainstream for their ignorance and inhumanity.

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Andrew Garfield: Ghani Wins in Afghanistan

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence
Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield

Attached for your information is a press release from Glevum and our Afghan partners, which presents the findings of two exit polls that we conducted during and after the June 14th election. Our teams conducted 2,206 face-to-face interviews at 51 polling stations in ten provinces on the 14th.  At the same time we also conducted 2,749 telephone interviews from June 14th to June 16th, with respondents who confirmed they had voted at the election.  The results are as follows:

Face to Face Exit Poll
Ashraf Ghani               – 53%
Abdullah Abdullah      – 47%		 Telephone Exit Poll
Ashraf Ghani               – 54%
Abdullah Abdullah      – 46%

These results are in line with our polling last week and suggest a conclusive victory for Ashraf Ghani.. Below is our documented report.

PDF (6 Pages): Afghan Second Round Exit Poll Results – Press Release – June 16th 2014

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Howard Rheingold: Chunking is 4 Not 7

Advanced Cyber/IO
Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold

The attentional window for short-term memory might be smaller than previously thought. Chunking information is one key strategy that can be exapted to infotentional practice.

Four is the ‘magic' number

ScienceDaily, 28 November 2012

According to psychological lore, when it comes to items of information the mind can cope with before confusion sets in, the “magic” number is seven.

But a new analysis by a leading Australian psychiatrist challenges this long-held view, suggesting the number might actually be four.

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Berto Jongman: Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies

First Crimea, now Iraq. Why does America's $50 billion intelligence community keep getting taken by surprise?

Shane Harris

Foreign Policy, 12 June 2014

nited States intelligence agencies were caught by surprise when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) seized two major Iraqi cities this week and sent Iraqi defense forces fleeing, current and former U.S. officials said Thursday. With U.S. troops long gone from the country, Washington didn't have the spies on the ground or the surveillance gear in the skies necessary to predict when and where the jihadist group would strike.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Startup Tamr Focuses on Automated Data Cleanup for Incoherent Legacy Big Data

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Rising Startup Tamr Has Big Plans for Data Cleanup

An article Gigaom is titled Michael Stonebraker’s New Startup, Tamr, Wants to Help Get Messy Data in Shape. With the help ($16 million) from Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates, Stonebraker and partner Andy Palmer are working to crack the ongoing problem of data transformation and normalization. The article explains,

“Essentially, the Tamr tool is a data cleanup automation tool. The machine-learning algorithms and software can do the dirty work of organizing messy data sets that would otherwise take a person thousands of hours to do the same, Palmer said. It’s an especially big problem for older companies whose data is often jumbled up in numerous data sources and in need of better organization in order for any data analytic tool to actually work with it.”

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