PDF (4 Pages): 2013-02 DoD Acquisition Toolbox
SchwartzReport: American Health Declining by Every Measure — USA 27th Among 34 Developed Nations
07 Health
Our passive servitude to the Non-geographical Corporate States and their minions is literally costing us years off our lives. And, not surprisingly, life is even shorter in Red value states as compared to Blue value states. Read this carefully and note, particularly, the observations about inequality and stress.
Why Do Americans Live Lives So Short?
SAM PIZZIGATI – Institute for Policy Studies
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Over 170 studies have so far linked income inequality to health outcomes.
Reflections on Tired Databases versus Wired Analytics + Jack Davis & Analytic Tradecraft RECAP
Advanced Cyber/IO, All Reflections & Story Boards
There are multiple analytic flaws with most source data, and particularly with any source data labeled in relation to terrorism. If Israelis have have touched the data in any way, shape, or form (especially including the software), it must be considered contaminated and severely suspect. While I have nothing critical to say about the application of Sentinel to flawed data, I do feel obliged to point out the sucking chest wounds that afflict most source data.
01 Terrorism is not a threat, it is a tactic. Defining every criminal or political incident in a pre-determined “hot-spot” as being “terrorism-related” is not analysis, it is sophmoric.
02 Databases are an important counterintelligence target. Who created the analytic model and source data parameters, who wrote every bit of code touching the data, who the source feeders and intermediaries are — all of this matters. Apart from data bases corrupted by elements of the US Government to their own ends, we have data bases and information technology systems so totally penetrated by enemy powers and special interests as to call into question the integrity and utility of at least 50% of all standing databases.
03 Incidents are what should be plotted, in context not only of time and space, but of all of the other pre-conditions of revolution that the US Government in particular refuses to contemplate because it would make it obvious that it has severe shortcomings in its intelligence function. Still-born babies and babies born deformed as so many have been in Fallujah, Iraq, are just as important to stability analytics as are incidents of direct violence against “authority” figures or forces.
Neal Rauhauser: US Global Terrorism Database & Sentinel Visualizer
IO Sense-Making
Global Terrorism Database & Sentinel Visualizer
Earlier this week I had a go at Visualizing The Global Terror Database using Gephi. Three weeks ago I laid hands on a license for Sentinel Visualizer a law enforcement/intelligence grade link analysis and data visualization tool. Today I had some broken time and in between a stream of phone calls I managed to get a little of the Global Terrorism Database into SV, and I like the results.
I started with Egypt.
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Clicking the plus sign adds related links. I find it a bit puzzling that a database like this lumps Gaza and the West Bank into one category. They don’t share a geographic boundary. They don’t share a government. There is some overlap between the sources of trouble in each location, but Hamas and Fatah do not spoon very often. Looking at things from a geospatial perspective this is an incorrect aggregation.
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Graphic: Russian Military Districts — Israel as Target
04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards
John Maguire: Russia Goes to Full Strategic Combat Readiness (Troops & Bombers) Exercise in Eastern District (Furthest from Middle East)
Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Media, Military, Peace Intelligence
While everyone is distracted by the Trayvon Martin case….two stories.
From 14 July 2013:
WW3 Brews As Nation Distracted By Trayvon Martin Case
EXTRACT
Now enter new reports surfacing from the Russian Defense Ministry on orders of Vladimir Putin that the largest military ‘state of full combat readiness’ drill is taking place with around 160,000 troops ordered to report from all corners of the military. Specifically, the translated reports detail how Putin is calling together not just Armed Forces of Russia troops, but all forms of long-range aircraft, 70 naval ships, bomber and fighter aircraft, and so on.
According to a syndicated Russian announcement:
“On Friday, during a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu Russian, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an unexpected military drill, urging all forces to enter a state of full combat readiness on the night of July 13.”
Marcus Aurelius: Nation Needs Leadership, Not Gimmicks
Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military
From a relatively local yokel paper, among the best issue summaries I've seen. From my foxhole in the Pentagon, things are bad now and appear to be getting worse fast.
Fayetteville (NC) Observer
July 19, 2013
Nation Needs Leadership, Not Gimmicks
At Fort Bragg, a name almost synonymous with “readiness,” Congress is idly flirting with unreadiness.
Says who? Said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a Monday visit appropriately set at the Green Ramp: “We have planes not flying, ships not sailing and soldiers not training. We are doing damage to our readiness, to our future readiness.”
Thus far, casual onlookers have found it easy to dismiss the blind, automatic budget cuts called the sequester as political theater. No Independence Day fireworks display this year; maybe something goes unpainted a while longer. Big deal.
That's ending.
For 8,500 civilian workers caught in a furlough (worldwide, the number is well over half a million) it has already ended. They'll lose about 20 percent of their pay for five months – a loss that will be hardest on them, but one that will also affect counties surrounding the fort.
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