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The elite television anchor: mouthpiece for the Matrix

Most of America can’t imagine the evening news could look and sound any other way.

That’s how solid the long-term brainwashing is.

The elite anchors, from Douglas Edwards and John Daly, in the early days of television, all the way to Brian Williams and Scott Pelley, have set the style. They define the genre.

The elite anchor is not a person filled with passion or curiosity. Therefore, the audience doesn’t have to be passionate or filled with curiosity, either.

The anchor is not a demanding voice on the air; therefore, the audience doesn’t have to be demanding.

The anchor isn’t hell-bent on uncovering the truth. For this he substitutes a false dignity. Therefore, the audience can surrender its need to wrestle with the truth and replace that with a false dignity of its own.

The anchor takes propriety to an extreme: it’s unmannerly to look below the surface of things. Therefore, the audience adopts those manners.

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2013/10/172013/10/17

Eagle: Need Motivation? There’s an App…

Advanced Cyber/IO

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Need motivation? There's an app for that

WASHINGTON (AP) – Ever suspect you do more housework than your spouse? Or that certain tasks at work raise your blood pressure? Maybe you wonder why you're sneezing more lately, or if carbs are really what is making you tired after lunch?

Turns out, there's an app or gadget to test all of that. Advancements in wearable body sensors, mobile applications and other gadgets mean that nearly everything we do can be captured, logged and analyzed. And everyday consumers are jumping at the chance to conduct their own experiments – tracking sleep, caffeine intake, kids' studying habits, household chores, even whether a baby is nursing more frequently on Mom's left breast versus her right.

“I don't know if I'd use the word ‘obsessed,'” said Ernesto Ramirez, a self-tracking devotee who helped to organize a two-day conference on the subject last week in San Francisco. Speakers at past “Quantified Self” conferences have included a man who developed his own app to see if he could walk every street in Manhattan and a dad who used trackers on his kids to monitor chores.

“I think there's an overall trend toward curiosity and proving knowledge of one's self in the world,” Ramirez said.

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2013/10/172013/10/17

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Advanced Cyber/IO

Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

British Foreign Fighters in Syria

Democratization of Big Data

Ethical Farming

Ill-Equipped IT Managers

Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

Iraq Death Toll Based on Intelligence Lie(s)

Modern Honey Traps: BBC Documentary

Turkey blows Israel’s cover for Iranian spy ring

2013/10/152013/10/15

NIGHTWATCH: China Spanks US, US Attacks Afghan Convoy Against All Existing Rules of Engagement

02 China, 08 Wild Cards, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, IO Deeds of War, Military, Peace Intelligence

China-US: The official Chinese news agency Xinhua published today a signed commentary about the failure of “Pax Americana.” Excerpts follow.

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2013/10/132013/10/13

Chuck Spinney: How Contemporary War “Reporting” Messes Up Your OODA Loops

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Media

The attached article is a very important and informative essay. Patrick Cockurn describes how the media echo chamber warps the Orientation* of the public, as well as that of a government, to unfolding events in the so-called global war on terror that triggered by 9-11 and the continuously metastasizing instabilities the GWOT is unleashing. I regard Cockburn** to be one of the very finest if not THE finest observer now operating in the Middle East. I urge readers to study his analysis very closely … almost every sentence contains a nugget of wisdom. Then think about how this kind of reporting is messing with your mind — e.g., a good place to start is to work through the Orientation-related ramifications of his reference to “embedding.”

Chuck Spinney

Alexandria, VA

* Explanatory note for new readers: The American strategist Colonel John R. Boyd explained why Orientation is the most crucial yet most vulnerable part of any decision maker's Observation – Orientation – Decision – Action (OODA) Loop. The OODA loop lies at the heart of his influential strategic theories about the elemental nature of any form of conflict — i.e., the interaction of opposing MINDs. Readers unfamiliar with Boyd or his synthesis of the OODA Loop can find brief introduction in my essays Genghis John and Incestuous Amplification and the Madness of King George. More comprehensive but accessible and accurate descriptions can be found in the books by Robert Coram and James Fallows, and Chet Richards. For those readers who are interested in heavy intellectually lifting, I recommend Franz Ozinga‘s analysis of Boyd's strategic thought or even better, they could study Boyd's original presentations, which can be downloaded from this Archive.

** Truth in advertizing: I am proud to call Patrick Cockburn a friend.

OCTOBER 07, 2013

A Diary of Four Wars

Where War Reporting Goes Wrong

by PATRICK COCKBURN, Counterpunch

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/07/where-war-reporting-goes-wrong/

The four wars fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria over the past 12 years have all involved overt or covert foreign intervention in deeply divided countries. In each case the involvement of the West exacerbated existing differences and pushed hostile parties towards civil war. In each country, all or part of the opposition have been hard-core jihadi fighters. Whatever the real issues at stake, the interventions have been presented as primarily humanitarian, in support of popular forces against dictators and police states. Despite apparent military successes, in none of these cases have the local opposition and their backers succeeded in consolidating power and establishing stable states.

More than most armed struggles, the conflicts have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference between reported news and what really happened, but during these four campaigns the outside world has been left with misconceptions even about the identity of the victors and the defeated.

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2013/10/122013/10/19

Rob Sentse: Influence Operations within Multinatinal Operations — Market Your “Product” Don’t Just Shove It Down Their Throats with Air Strikes and Night Raids

Advanced Cyber/IO

Influence behaviour. Market your product.

Know the human environment as operations are predominantly conducted in urbanized terrain.

Understanding the environment is fundamental in either conducting operations and analyzing any threat.

Performing operations from a marketing perspective means that you have to:

Review of the operational environment.

Try to analyze a country as you would analyze an organization.

Study the countries’ inhabitants at every level, opponents at every level and the overall economic, political, cultural and technical environment; covering developing trends, as well as the current situation.

What do the people want and why do they want that?

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