Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1657 – Public Intelligence Blog

Al QAEDA: It has a strategy, the US does not

More than a dozen years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the United States is still confused about al Qaeda’s goals and even how the group founded by Osama bin Laden is organized. The intellectual confusion is pervasive—and some of it is deliberate.

CYBER: Net Neutrality Is Dead—Here's How to Get It Back

CYBER: Social Media in the Year Ahead

LIFE: Arab World Going Into 2014

LIFE: China Cloning on an Industrial Scale

LIFE: Energy is Free — Multiple Scientists Confirm

“We’ve had major military people at great risks to themselves say yes these things are real. Why do you think the military industrial complex doesn’t want that statement to be made, because you start thinking about what kind of technology is behind that, that’s the bottom line.” – Adam Trombly, Physicist, Inventor

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Sepp Hasslberger: Innovative Wind Turbine Smaller Than a Penny

05 Energy

Micro windmills. As the windmills for wind farms get larger and larger, these go in the oppoite direction. Small isn't only beautiful, it also seems to be efficient – if you can just make enough of them and put them to use all at the same time…

Innovative Wind Turbine Smaller Than a Penny Could Power Your Smartphone

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Nik Peachy: Magisto Tool – Magical Video Edition (Child Friendly)

IO Tools

This looks like a nice simple free tool to enhance students video projects and make them easier to share. Very quick and simple to use.

Magisto

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Robin Good: Content Curation Guide

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Sense-Making

An Introductory Guide to Content Curation

If you are interested in understanding what content curation is all about and where's its key value, you will find this reading material relevant to your learning goal.

In this reading collection (25 articles) you can learn how curation can be a fantastic instrument for learning, journalism and marketing, as it provides the means to create value, to find unique resources and to illustrate them, and in this process it showcases your competence and expertise on the matter (or the one of your company / organization).

If you are just starting out with content curation, this learning playlist will provide you with all the basic info you need to know to better understand this new activity and its relevance in our times.

Learning playlist.

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Marcus Aurelius: Ode to Bob Gates

IO Deeds of War, Military

Robert Gates: A man still at war

Dan Zak

Washington Post, 12 January 2014

Skagit County, Wash. — Robert M. Gates is a crier. He is also an expert at restraining himself.

The war is fought in the throat, and lost in the eyes.

He clears his throat as if it will hitch his composure back into compliance. His eyes, however, water and redden. It’s clear what will happen if he blinks.

“I’m — ” he says and stops.

“I think I’m — ” he says and stops. “I think I’m at peace.”

He sits in a wooden swivel chair but has stopped swiveling.

Read full article.

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2014/01/14

Owl: Is Cristy Wall Street’s New Front Man?

Cultural Intelligence

Hedges: More Signs Chris Christy is the Choice of the Wall St. and NJ Criminal Class

Chris Hedges pulls no punches in this article, he reveals disturbing facts about Christy that mainstream media has so far totally ignored. Hedges reinforces the main points made in Raimondo's prior article showing Christy is the preferred choice of the 1% of the 1% to be President of the US because he is vindictive and brutal, as is seen in his punishing (though carried out by his inner circle) an entire town, including those who voted for him in that town, as I saw in NBC news street interviews. This is proof he is made in the mold of a banana republic dictator, as Hedges shows, that will be perfect for the times when the peasants revolt. Christy can be depended on to take care of them his way, a way which Tony Soprano would approve of:

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Stephen E. Arnold: Been Raped? There’s a List for Sale with Your Name On It…

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, IO Impotency

Data Broker Offered Sensitive Lists for Sale

Now this is downright creepy. The Wall Street Journal’s tech site Digits notifies us that “Data Broker Removes Rape-Victims List After Journal Inquiry.” As the headline states, the list has now been removed, but yikes! Medbase200 offered this tragic roster for sale, along with ones listing victims of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS patients, and “peer pressure sufferers”, until an inquiry from the Wall Street Journal prompted them to remove them all. This looks like a very large hole in our HIPPA protections.

Writer Elizabeth Dwoskin reports:

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