Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1367 – Public Intelligence Blog

Arabist.net from friends of Peter Harling and Sarah Birke

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All in all, the Islamic State has prompted a response that combines all the ingredients necessary to make it stronger: Western over-the-horizon military intervention; a regional arms race as a variety of countries rush to provide money and weapons to improvised proxies (whose factional and sometimes sectarian agendas further degrade decaying state institutions and exacerbate social fault lines); and growing repression of civil liberties and empowerment of backward-looking (but formally secular) power structures. With enemies like these, the Islamic State hardly needs friends.

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2015/03/05

Gareth Porter: How Israel Games the Iran Threat

Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War

The long history of Israel gaming the ‘Iranian threat'

Years before his recent grandstanding in Congress, Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders conjured a threat where one previously didn’t exist

Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of the newly published Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

2015/03/052015/03/04

Friends of Europe: Not Friendly, Not Thoughtful — Comment by Robert Steele

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Friends of Europe (€2,281,515 a year budget) is delighted to send you the report of its last Security Jam, launched today at a debate with General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and Ambassador Alain Le Roy, incoming Secretary General of the European External Action Service. European Union and NATO leaders must act urgently to set up a security organisation in the Middle East, create an EU consensus on immigration, asylum and human trafficking, and open up jobs for women in intelligence operations, according to the 2,300-strong Jam community. The experts also urged the creation of an international ‘Cyberpol’ agency.

10 Recommendations & Comment by Robert Steele Below the Fold

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2015/03/052015/03/04

Jean Lievens: Facilitation Improv – Empowering Humanity with a Radically New Operating System

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

How you are empowered to facilitate humanity into a radically new operating system

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Facilitation is a key to changing the political, economic, justice, legal, education, healthcare and entertainment systems. New political systems can be based on facilitation brings people together to hear each other, to empathize and to collaborate. Different demographics and groups at odds with each other through facilitation can learn to work together to find holistic solutions. Solutions and governance then emerge bottom up from the collective. New economic systems can be based on facilitating people to work together in commons and gift economies e.g. gift circles are about facilitating people to express their needs and gifts. New justice and legal systems can be based in facilitating people to come together, to acknowledge, understand, empathize and forgive.

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2015/03/052015/03/04

Sepp Hasslberger: Google Big Brother “Truth”

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency

Google can, to a large extent, determine what you get to see on the internet, if you use the search engine. Search results have long been slanted to favour government and certain other sites and commercial interests (Google's advertising customers). But now there will be a new slant to Google ranking. Does the site pass the official consensus test, does it conform what the “authorities” say?

Breaking: Google gives new meaning to “Orwellian”

2015/03/042015/03/06

Robert Steele: On Petraeus, a Mossad Honey Trap, and More — This Is a Bye for Israel — Update 6

08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, Officers Call, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

Sigh. I was not going to comment on David Patraeus gross dereliction of duty but several colleagues are totally pissed off and they are correct to be angry. Here are a mix of supposition and fact along with my conclusions on this sorry disgrace to the Republic. HOWEVER, I conclude this is not about Patraeus — many others should be indicted along with him and many others have committed high crimes and misdemeanors that exhonerate him in relative terms.

UPDATED to integrate specific observations from IDENS A-C.

UPDATED to add key paragraphs from Marcy Wheeler at SALON and Ray McGovern.

Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Patraeus-Mossad

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2015/03/042015/03/04

Review (Guest): America’s Deadliest Export – Democracy (The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else)

Cultural Intelligence

William Blum

5 of 5 Stars. Truth of american foreign policy

By Joan M McGreevy on June 6, 2013

[This book] was not a big surprise to me since I have been aware of the nature of our bloody brutal empire for about 10 years when I was 42, but it did reveal to me some things that I was still unaware of. I devoured it. I finished it much quicker than most books I read. I particularly love pages 16 and 17 where he gives 6 main points the empire is interested in.1 The US does not mean well. 2. The US is not concerned with democracy. 3. Anti-american terrorists are motivated by decades of awful things done to their homelands by US foreign policy. 4. The US supports terrorism against “OFFICIAL” enemies. 5. Iraq was no threat to the US. 6. There was never any such animal as the International Communist conspiracy. Read it for yourself and judge for yourself!

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