Neal Rauhauser: Special Ops Look at Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military
Neal Rauhauser
Neal Rauhauser
What most will not realize is that the insights in the document are relevant to the growing anger and potential domestic insurgency in the USA. We have 2.5 million veterans from OEF/OIF, assuming 20% in combat that's 500k, Army/Marines are about 20% black if I recall, so that's 100k guys who have “seen the elephant”. And then you have the Hispanics, many with gang connections but most clean cut and ready for righteous revenge. We got the D.C. Sniper and Oklahoma out of 38 days of ground combat in Desert Storm when vets came back to a roaring economy. Now we have guys who did three and four tours that came back to America in a tailspin.So, you tell me what happens when the next time a cop shoots a guy in the back because he had a broken tail light, and his brother has that CBI badge and a couple of equally fed up friends? Terrifies me, but we are headed that direction at a good clip and I see no signs of change.

PDF (138 Pages): JSOU Clandestine Insurgent and Terrorist Networks

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Berto Jongman: Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Programs? PBI: Or Just Plain Dishonesty?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Media, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Is Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Policies?

More than thirteen years after the U.S. intelligence community named the prevention of terrorism its number one goal, it seems to have little understanding of what drives terrorism, or how to counter it. And, if the recently increasing criticism is correct, the government’s investment in academic terrorism research isn’t helping. It may be because the government is continuing to fund research supporting discredited theories of terrorist radicalization, rather than objective empirical analyses.

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Stephen E. Arnold: FTC Finds Google Harms Rivals by Manipulating Search Results, Recommends Lawsuit — Not Under Obama-Biden!

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Google Altered Search Results?!

If you know anything about search results, search engine optimization, and search algorithms, you probably wondered if Google ever changed its search results so they would be favor one search result over another.  Google already alters results with Google AdWords, the Right to Forgotten, and removing results if they break rules.

The FTC revealed via The Wall Street Journal that Google has been altering its search results for profit: “Inside The US Antitrust Probe Of Google.”  The FTC found that Google was using its monopoly on search to harm Internet users and its rivals.  FTC recommended a lawsuit be brought against Google for three of its practices.

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SchwartzReport: Organic Farming Nearly as Productive as Industrial (And Vastly Less Costly)

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

One of the selling points for industrial chemical agriculture is that nothing can equal its productivity. As this report explains, this is not true, and when the pollution and toxicity costs and effects are factored in there really is no contest. We need to completely reassess our agricultural practices, from the subsidies to the actual farming. We are on the wrong track.

Organic Nearly as Productive as Industrial Farming, New Study Says

Anthony Judge: Counteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying – Insights for Global Governance from Birds on the Wing and the Dodo

Cultural Intelligence, Governance, Resilience, Sources (Info/Intel)
Anthony Judge
Anthony Judge

Counteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying

Insights for global governance from birds on the wing and the dodo

Introduction
Underside of normality?
Lost art of bird watching?
Bird flight as offering a global transformation of systemic perspective
Styles of flight as styles of governance
Empowering democratic take-off through coordinated wing flapping
Lift, banking and control as functions of radical extremes
Reducing extremism by reduction of “wing length”?
Speculative alternatives for global governance?
Evolutionary possibilities for global governance?
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Michel Bauwens: Californians Outraged As Oil Producers & Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions

12 Water, Commerce, Corruption, Government
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Californians Outraged As Oil Producers & Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions

California’s oil and gas industry is estimated (with official data due to be released in coming days) to use more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per day; so it is hardly surprising that, as Reuters reports, Californians are outraged after discovering that these firms are excluded from Governor Jerry Brown’s mandatory water restrictions, “forcing ordinary Californians to shoulder the burden of the drought.”

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