Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1371 – Public Intelligence Blog

Brian Jacob Church spent the better part of a day shackled inside Chicago's Homan Square, denied access to an attorney, before police finally sent him to be booked and charged. Lawyers say the facility is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

• The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site'

• Homan Square ‘black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage

Video from The Guardian below the fold.

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2015/02/252015/02/24

Chuck Spinney: Ukraine as Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis

Peace Intelligence

The Dangers of Slow Boil in Ukraine: A Cuban Missile Crisis In Reverse

Defense News, a defense industry trade publication, just released a report entitled, Ukraine Signs Defense Deal with UAE. It led with — “ABU DHABI — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a deal for unspecified military and technical cooperation with the UAE on Tuesday, and said negotiations are ongoing with the United States and unspecified European nations. Poroshenko told reporters at the IDEX show here that he hoped talks with the US would yield an agreement to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia. Poroshenko reportedly planned to meet with chief Pentagon weapons buyer, Frank Kendall, at the show.” An arms deal between Ukraine and the UAE — what gives?

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2015/02/252015/02/24

Berto Jongman: 500 Year Old Map Shatters “Official” History

Earth Intelligence

EXTRACT

The fact that this ancient map could have been made with some sort of arial technology is quite a thought, isn’t it? Even if this isn’t an option, who had the technology to undertake such an accurate geographical survey in Antarctica a couple million years ago? How would they have known to detail the map as if it were taken from above, with knowledge about the earth’s shape?

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2015/02/242015/02/24

William Blum: Greek Tragedy, US Hypocrisy

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Peace Intelligence

The Greek Tragedy: Some things not to forget, which the new Greek leaders have not.

American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

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2015/02/242015/02/23

Anthony Judge: Naive Acquisition of Dual-Use Surveillance Technology – When All Personal Appliances Become Spyware

Civil Society, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement

Naive Acquisition of Dual-use Surveillance Technology

Progressive market-driven transformation of personal appliances into spyware?

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2015/02/242015/02/23

WIlliam Binney: Video Interview on Future of Freedom

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

2015/02/242015/02/24

SchwartzReport: Quantum Reality

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Yet another breakthrough is taking form in physics; this is an amazing time. Here is one of the best general audience essays on the quantum world I have read. And I also find it notable that a respected major university academic, would feel comfortable writing, “I suggest that we regard the paradoxes of quantum physics as a metaphor for the unknown infinite possibilities of our own existence.

NYT Sunday Review: The Reality of Quantum Weirdness

Paper (PDF 7 Pages): Measurements on the reality of the wavefunction