Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1285 – Public Intelligence Blog

Aging porn stars….too funny.

Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That's Changing

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The traditional intelligence agencies are a lot like the old-school porn industry: they're still trying to make and sell porn like it's 1979, even though a lot of what they're selling is just hanging out online, free for anyone to download at their leisure. To stay relevant, they need to stop wasting money on producing material they or their customers can get for free and develop new ways to find, collect, and curate that sexy, sexy free intelligence information.

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Robert Steele's complete answers (13 pages) below the fold.

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2015/08/252015/08/23

Sepp Hasslberger: Backfeed, Blockchain, Distributed Everything

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost

The vision is one where we can do, with direct collaboration, much of what corporations and governments do today, and we can do it better.

Backfeed wants to decentralize the Internet and help you earn what you deserve

The blockchain makes the local to global egalitarian economy possible.

2015/08/252015/08/24

Chuck Spinney: Corbyn Labor Revolution in UK

Cultural Intelligence

Labour’s Corbyn: British Establishment in Destroy Mode

August 20, 2015 … Judging by the vitriol being heaped on Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn it is a sure sign that Britain’s political establishment is deeply rattled by his runaway popularity. The ruling elite are thus moving into “destroy mode”.

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Berto Jongman: World of Walls — 65 Countries with Border Fences

10 Security

World of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four times as many as when the Berlin Wall was toppled – as governments try to hold back the tide of migrants

Security fears and a widespread refusal to help refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building around the world
A third of the world's countries have completed or are building barriers – compared to 16 at the fall of the Berlin Wall
They include Israel's ‘apartheid wall', India's 2,500-mile fence around Bangladesh and Morocco's huge sand ‘berm'
Experts are dismissive, saying: ‘Their main function is theatre. They provide the sense of security, not real security'

2015/08/252015/08/25

Stephen E. Arnold: Sharepoint and Elasticsearch + Sharepoint Dedicated Feed from Arnold IT

Advanced Cyber/IO

The Integration of Elasticsearch and Sharepoint Adds Capabilities

By enabling Elastic’s powerful real-time search and analytics capabilities in SharePoint, enterprises will be able to optimize how they use data within their applications and portals.” “Combining Elasticsearch and SharePoint opens up a world of exciting applications for our customers, ranging from geosearch and pattern search through search on machine data, data visualization, and low-latency search,” said Jeff Fried, CTO of BA Insight.”

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Sharepoint Dedicated Feed @ Arnold IT

2015/08/242015/08/23

John Michael Greer: On Revolution & Retrotopia

Cultural Intelligence

The Last Refuge of the Incompetent

A discussion of how the left failed to craft a revolution on climate change, while the extreme right very successfully turned a majority of the public against the federal government.

2015/08/242015/08/22

Jean Lievens: Quantitative Easing with Integrity – NOT Involving Banks

03 Economy

Prominent Economists Who Advocate a Different Type of Quantitative Easing

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“Now more than ever, what the Eurozone needs is that injections of new money be directed to households, not to commercial banks . . . One good place to start is with the textbook example of printing money to finance consumption – sending every adult in the country a voucher that can be spent in the next three months.