Winston Churchill: God Bless America & Hurry Up!
Offbeat FunSearch: strategic open source information
SearchesThis is still the single best overview with the relevant graphics.
2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0 [Full Text Online]
It's not enough to focus on strategic open source information. You have to have a strategic analytic model, a viable OSE technical solution for information-sharing and sense-making that plays well with others and scales, and a deep commitment to actually doing M4IS2.
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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Growth, Search, & Costs — the Google Killer?
Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce
Amazon: Unrelenting Growth, Search, and Costs
I noted the Netcraft data which were presented in “Amazon Web Services’ Growth Unrelenting.” Amazon is a sprawling online services company. The firm hit on the idea of becoming a cloud provider years ago. The write up presents a diagram which uses a log scale (check with an attorney for what this means). The lines show growth in host names, active sites, and computers. What’s not to like?
Search vendors struggling to generate revenue have embraced the cloud as a way to reduce the on premises’ costs of deploying a content processing solution. Again: What’s not to like? Ease, convenience, and the perceived reliability of Amazon, the creation of a Wall Street wunderkind?
Amazon is in the search business. The system, as I understand it, requires that content be assembled to the Amazon specification. Once in the Amazon search system, all sorts of goodness is available to the person who wants to use the “native” Amazon search system. Other search vendors have embraced Amazon. Two examples are the still-in-start-up mode Digital Reasoning and X1 (search not the aircraft).
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4th Media: Has the USA Foresaken the Rule of Law?
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement
The Breakdown of The Rule of Law: America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism
From early in one’s life, an American is taught the law and American institutions of justice are great equalizers within our society, ensuring that everyone is treated the same, no matter one’s class, race, or ethnicity. Yet, what has been happening quite recently, especially within the past decade or so, is that we have been seeing an increasing breakdown in the rule of law and the use of the justice system to enforce injustices.
President Obama rode in on a high horse in the 2008 presidential elections, specifically on his slogan of hope and change. He rightly criticized the Bush administration on a number of issues, from the economy to the wars abroad, as well as the use of drones.[1]
Yet, Obama subsequently went and not only increased the use of drones, but used them to kill Anwar Al-Awlaki, a member of Al Qaeda who was still legally an American citizen at the time of his death.[2]
However, the story gets even more shocking as not only does such as act create a legal precedent where the President can kill any US citizen that he deems a terrorist[3], but the Obama administration’s attorney general argued that such assassinations of American citizens on US soil “would be legal and justified in an extraordinary circumstance.’”[4]
Full article and all notes with links below the line.
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Susan Lindauer: YouTube (9:52) — RT Interview on How Bush and Cheney Both Knew About 9/11 Months Before It Happened
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, YouTube“Breaking the Set:” Bush & Cheney Knew About 9/11 Months Before It Happened Says Whistleblower Charged Under Patriot Act (Video)
Abby Martin is one of the best interviewers I have ever encountered in the corporate media. Abby has guts and smarts. Our interview on “Breaking the Set” was ground-breaking for not flinching from hard questions or provocative answers!
Berto Jongman: Case Study of What NSA Sees About Your Complete Life
Advanced Cyber/IO, ICT-IT, Transparency
Green party politician Malte Spitz sued to have German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom hand over six months of his phone data that he then made available to ZEIT ONLINE. We combined this geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician, such as Twitter feeds, blog entries and websites, all of which is all freely available on the internet.
By pushing the play button, you will set off on a trip through Malte Spitz's life. The speed controller allows you to adjust how fast you travel, the pause button will let you stop at interesting points. In addition, a calendar at the bottom shows when he was in a particular location and can be used to jump to a specific time period. Each column corresponds to one day.
Rest of article and live interactive streaming “one day in the life of” demonstration.
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Evo Morales: Indignation Over Impunity
02 Diplomacy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
O presidente boliviano Evo Morales em entrevista coletiva no aeroporto de Viena, na Áustria
Bolivian President Evo Morales at a press conference at the airport in Vienna, Austria
25 truths about the case Evo Morales / Edward Snowden: Case shows that the European Union is a political and diplomatic deception, always subservient to the demands of Washington
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