Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1506 – Public Intelligence Blog

The New Equalizer – A Genuine Game Changer: Kamikaze Assassination Micro Drones

The revolver was the great equalizer of the 19th and 20th centuries between individuals unequal in power or size, and perhaps, in the light of John Robb's writings, guns of various kinds have been a great equalizer between guerilla fighters and much larger state forces. But what will be the great equalizer between the pubic and increasingly tyrannical states inflicting their police and military forces on the much weaker public? I believe this new analysis gives the answer: Kamikaze assassination micro drones.

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2014/06/102014/06/14

Robert Steele: Ghani Wins by 6% or More — 5,000 Mullahs for Ghani, Karzai Frantically Trying to Deal, Abdullah Promising Millions (But Out of Cash), with Pakistan Destabilizing to Stave Off Durand Line Challenge by Afghanistan

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

SUMMARY OF VARIED OPEN SOURCES:

There is a Pashtun Storm brewing.

For months Karzai has been frantically trying to deal away the run-off, thus acknowledging that Ghani has won the Presidency. Karzai is trying to place Abdullah as Prime Minister (which has always been Abdullah's only realistic goal as a 100% Tajik minority) and claim ministry and province positions for the Karzai-Abdullah team. The mere fact that Karzai is so frantic confirms my personal view that Ghani has won this election beyond the ability of fraud, I now call for him to win by 6% or more even with the massive fraud that is planned.

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2014/06/102014/06/08

John Maguire: German Villagers Build Own Broadband Network, Connect Directly to Dark Fiber

Advanced Cyber/IO, Crowd-Sourcing

German villagers build own broadband network

Hacked off with slow download speeds the locals of Löwenstedt clubbed together the cash to build their own super-fast internet service to the delight of the village's tiny population.

Too isolated and with few inhabitants, the tiny village of Löwenstedt in northern Germany is simply too small to show up on the radars of national Internet operators.

So the villagers took their digital fate into their own hands and built a broadband Internet network of their own.

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2014/06/102014/06/08

Eagle: The Purchase of the Republic — Extraordinary Graphics, Griftopia in One Article

Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

The Purchase of Our Republic

A Democracy in Name Only

The massive consolidation of wealth, combined with the removal of any limits on money in campaigns, has allowed for the purchase of our government.

Y. Falkson

Americans know that something is wrong, deeply wrong. They see signs of the problem everywhere: income inequality, growing concentration and power of mega corporations, political donations/corruption, the absence of jobs with decent salaries, the explosion of the US prison population, healthcare costs, student loan debt, homelessness, etc. etc. However, the true causes and benefactors behind these problems are purposely hidden from view. What Americans see is Kabuki Theater of a functioning form of capitalism and democracy, but beyond this veneer our country has devolved into the exact opposite.

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2014/06/092014/06/08

Stephen E. Arnold: Elastisearch Open Source Rules Search — Bulldozing Content Processing

Advanced Cyber/IO, Software

Elasticsearch: Bulldozing Content Processing

When I left the intelligence conference in Prague, there were a number of companies in my graphic about open source search. When I got off the airplane, I edited my slide. Looks to me as if Elasticsearch has just bulldozed the search and content sector, commercialized open source group. I would not want to be the CEO of LucidWorks, Ikanow, or any other open sourcey search and content processing company this weekend.

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2014/06/092014/06/07

Steve Aftergood: CIA Gets Population of Syria Way Wrong

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

CIA UNDERESTIMATES THE POPULATION OF SYRIA

The population of Syria is 17,951,639, according to the CIA World Factbook.

That figure (oddly identified as a “July 2014” estimate) is wrong, according to everyone else.

The discrepancy was noted yesterday in the intelligence newsletter Nightwatch.

“NightWatch consulted six separate sources for the total population of Syria. They agreed that it is between 22 and 23 million people, not 17.9 million as indicated in the CIA World Factbook. There are about 7 million Syrians under voting age of 18 and more than 15 million registered voters,” the newsletter said.

“NightWatch relies on the CIA World Factbook as a standard reference for unclassified factual, baseline information, as does the Intelligence Community. On three occasions since 2006, NightWatch has found errors in the Factbook,” the newsletter added. “This was the third occasion.”

A Congressional Research Service report last month also cites a total Syrian population of “more than 22 million.”

Errors, of course, are to be expected– even, and especially, in intelligence publications. One great virtue of the CIA World Factbook is that it is a public document. This makes it possible for readers to identify such errors, to draw attention to them, and to promote their correction.

2014/06/092014/06/09