Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1640 – Public Intelligence Blog

Business Intelligence: A Functional Barrier

Walls.

I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees. (Robert Frost, Mending Wall)

A reader sent me a link to an item that appeared in Phi Beta Iota. You can find the graphic at http://bit.ly/1d3H3Q4. The original document appeared on 2010 at http://bit.ly/1fnOB2Y. I thought again of walls.

In late 2014, O1Business published a short item that provides more back up for the apparent slow down in some business intelligence markets. You can find that original article at http://bit.ly/1aAgA27. My take on the 01Business story by Marie Jung appeared in December 2013 at http://bit.ly/19VUqH9.

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2014/01/27

SchwartzReport: NSA Is Making Us All Less Safe

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military

People who are truly knowledgeable about IT are appalled about what the NSA is doing and, as this report shows, they are speaking out.

Open Letter From Top U.S. Computer Security Experts Slams NSA Spying As Destroying Security
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The NSA Is Making Us All Less Safe

An open letter today from a large group of professors – top US computer security and cryptography researchers – slams the damage to ecurity caused by NSA spying:

Inserting backdoors, sabotaging standards, and tapping commercial data-center links provide bad actors, foreign and domestic, opportunities to exploit the resulting vulnerabilities.

The value of society-wide surveillance in preventing terrorism is unclear, but the threat that such surveillance poses to privacy, democracy, and the US technology sector is readily apparent.

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2014/01/262014/01/26

Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera – and the Ukraine

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

DATA: GDELT has a new home

SEX AND POWER: Gaddafi's underground sex bunkers

THREAT: DSB report on US intelligence agencies incapable of detecting nuclear threat

THREAT: Economic meltdown – growing warning signs

THREAT: Economic systems surviving thanks to wars

THREAT: the battlefield is the Internet

UK: hitmen for hire – academics unlock the secret behaviour of Britain's contract killers – average cost £15,000

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2014/01/262014/01/26

TIkkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Shulamit Aloni, z’l, Israel’s most principled elected official

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Editor's Note: Shula Aloni was the most principled Israeli elected official I ever met, a champion of the downtrodden and a fearless crusader for the rights of Palestinians. So i was very delighted when she agreed to speak at Tikkun's “Strengthening the Peace Forces” conference that we convened in Jerusalem in 1991 and a subsequent conference in 1994 which we convened at Columbia University. As the preeminent leader of the Ratz (later Meretz) political party, the primary electoral vehicle for the Israeli peace movement, Shula was perceived to be the spokesperson for all of us who sought peace and reconciliation with Palestinians.

Sadly, Shula had an understandable but in my view counterproductive religiophobia that led her to antagonize not only the ultra-orthodox, but also the “traditional” Israelis who, while rejecting the extremism of the ultra-orthodox, nevertheless felt a deep commitment to Judaism. In this she was completely aligned with the majority of people in the Israeli peace movement who shared her disdain for “the religious” and never made any attempt to articulate their peace and justice message in the language of the Jewish tradition, though that tradition had a wealth of peace and justice traditions upon which they could have drawn to show that reconciliation with the Palestinians and social justice for all the citizens of Israel were goals mandated by Judaism itself, and provided a foundation for a rigorous religious critique of the West Bank settlers and ultra-orthodox fundamentalists.

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2014/01/262014/01/26

YouTube: Jewish Genome Myth Busted

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

2014/01/262014/01/26

4th Media: US Government Arms and Protects Sinaloa Cartel’s Control of 80% of US Cocaine — Based in — Wait for It — Chicago

Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

Nations Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The DEA

Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true.

An investigation conducted in Mexico found the American government allowed that country’s largest drug cartel, Sinaloa, to operate without fear of persecution.

That groups is estimated to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine coming into the country through Chicago.

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2014/01/26

Jon Rappoport: Connecticutt, Yale, & Cover-Up of Legalized Toxic Psychiatric Drugs – $14 Billion Buys a Lot of Immunity for Bristol-Myers Squibb; Boehringer-Ingleheim; Rib-X; Purdue; Alexion; Achillion; Pfizer

03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

Exposed: Sandy Hook shooter’s biggest threat still lives

Adam Lanza, the purported Sandy Hook School shooter, is the subject of an ongoing investigation in Connecticut. No, it’s not a police probe, it’s about “mental health.”

The investigation is all about Lanza’s medical history, what diagnoses were made, who the doctors were, what psychiatric drugs they prescribed Lanza.

The Governor of Connecticut is ultimately in charge, in order to make recommendations about improving “mental health” in the state and preventing future violent tragedies.

But the inquiry has stalled. And stalled.

Continue reading “Jon Rappoport: Connecticutt, Yale, & Cover-Up of Legalized Toxic Psychiatric Drugs – $14 Billion Buys a Lot of Immunity for Bristol-Myers Squibb; Boehringer-Ingleheim; Rib-X; Purdue; Alexion; Achillion; Pfizer”