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2012/12/122016/03/26

Reflections: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence 2.0

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Citation: Robert David STEELE Vivas, “The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence,” Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog (12 December 2012).

For Part II See: 2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Contextual Trust for Sources & Methods

UPDATE 16 Dec 2012: Added NATO OSINT Series, pointer to other OSINT Handbooks. Added Thomas Briggs: Reflections on OSINT in Support of HUMINT

UPDATE 15 Dec 2012: Robert Steele: How Dutch Intelligence Survived & Prospered Using Open Source Human Intelligence as a Foundation for Ethical Evidence-Based Decisions

UPDATE 14 Dec 2012: 2012 Tom Briggs on The Human Factor & 2012 Ishmael Jones (P) on The Human Factor

Hi Robert,

There is one consideration I would like to discuss with you. While exploring for many years how to address the need for the military to understand all areas and aspects of the human environment, I had the opportunity to listen to many members of the intelligence community speaking about their role in achieving that understanding. I used to have the traditional military idea that it was the role of intel to provide the information and much of the knowledge. Along the way, they got me to doubt this view. Finally, they convinced me that the intel community, as we still know it today, is not a supplier of this understanding, but a customer. Understanding the human environment is a product stemming from Open Sources Information, but not from military intelligence. Intel's role might be, based on the understanding made available by others, to develop the specific products suiting its specific goals : targeting and counter intelligence.

As a general statement, no one nation has put this together — the Mediterranean countries have the skills and mind-set, the Sandanavian countries have the motivation and interest, and the Americans have the money — but the three “sets” are not coming together at this time.

Thank you for all the material you are producing.

Cheers,
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2012/12/122012/12/18

Anthony Judge: Encyclopedia of World Problems in WSJ – Seeking a Home

Advanced Cyber/IO

I regret that the considerable efforts of Jacqueline Nebel and Nadia McLaren are not mentioned — without them the volumes would not have emerged. Still, this is a wonderful article, I can only hope that it attracts some funding to continue the effort.

WSJ.com – Encyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own

Encyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own

Chronicle of Woes From Alien Abductions to Dandruff Finds Itself Short on Funds

Daniel Michaels

Wall Street Journal, 11 December 2012

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2012/12/122013/04/04

Stephen E. Arnold: Screening & Judging Social Media

Advanced Cyber/IO

Social Media Services Announced

The Honk a Limited Distribution Newsletter

Social media has been on our radar for years. However, in the last three months, a number of clients and people struggling with social media “challenges” have enlisted our help. Our engagements have ranged from analyses of the vulnerabilities of the screening methods in use at Google Plus, LinkedIn, and Quora to message automation methods permitted at Facebook and Twitter. We have worked on a number of “interesting” social media situations. You can find a basic summary of our social media consulting services for professional and commercial organizations on our social subsite.

The problems range from government centric to a single individual disseminating misleading information about an established firm.

You can read more about our social media services at this subsite link. We have set up a separate contact point for our social media services. Write us at arnoldit@yandex.com.

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2012/12/12

SchwartzReport: Regulators Keep Fracking Pollution Test Results From Public — Betrayal of the Public Trust!

Earth Intelligence

Regulators Under Fire for Keeping Fracking Pollution Test Results Under Wraps

Mike Ludwig

truthout.org, 11 December 2012

Residents living in the shadow of fracking rigs say they've suffered from headaches, nosebleeds and other health effects since drilling began in their communities. Meanwhile, state agencies refuse to release the results of air and water pollution tests.

Thirty years ago, Jenny and Tom Lisak moved into a historic farmhouse in Pennsylvania's rural Jefferson County. The couple raised three children there and established a certified organic farm they named LadyBug Farm.

“When living in the country, your time is marked by nature and each season comes with its own smells, sounds and colors,” Jenny Lisak recently told environmental researchers. “But those colors have faded and our wellbeing, livelihood and dreams are now threatened.”

The trouble started when the oil and gas boom hit Jefferson County and rolled into the Lisak's neighborhood. First came the trucks carrying equipment and supplies in a stream of constant traffic; then oil and gas wells were drilled near LadyBug farm.

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2012/12/11

Murtaza Hussain: Roots of Anti-Americanism

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency

The roots of global anti-Americanism

Revelations of Korean rapper Psy's anti-American past are emblematic of a global resentment caused by US militarism.

Al Jazeera, 11 December 2012

The incongruity of it seemed to be nothing short of a betrayal. After lightheartedly dancing his way into the hearts of Americans and gaining entrance to the inner sanctum of their cherished cult of celebrity, the Korean rapper, Psy, whose song “Gangam Style” became the most watched video in the history of YouTube and made him a pop culture sensation, has been revealed to have a politically active past which places him directly at odds with the American mainstream worldview and which violently decries its most basic articles of faith.

The man whom they enjoyed as an unthreatening, comically light-hearted foreigner dancing for their enjoyment was revealed to have only years earlier been a vociferous public critic of American policies and the country's role in the world.

In a 2004 performance, the rapper famous for his “invisible horse dance” denounced the United States in a song called “Hey American”:

“Kill those f—ing Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives
Kill those f—ing Yankees who ordered them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers
Kill them all slowly and painfully”

For an American public conditioned to the type of unquestionable worship of the military embodied in the phrase “Support the Troops”, Psy's words represent nothing less than sacrilege. This song however was not his only offence.

In a previous performance, he had come on stage to protest the presence of 37,000 US troops in South Korea and smashed a miniature American tank in protest over the killing of two South Korean schoolgirls by American forces stationed in the country.

As it turned out, the Asian pop-star whom Americans had enthusiastically embraced, arguably the first entertainer to bridge the continental divide so successfully, brought with him not just a culturally unique style of song and dance, but also a worldview which is threateningly alien to most Americans.

If even an innocuous pop singer from a country perceived as benign could espouse views the typical American would attribute to menacing terrorists such as al-Qaeda, it begs serious questions about the pervasiveness of global anti-Americanism as well as to what informs it.

Read full article with many links.

Phi Beta Iota: The ignorance of most Americans — including many in the US Government that have never left the USA, interacted with “real” foreigners, or studied broadly — is quite frightening to any intelligence professional. It is not possible to plan, program, budget, and execute (PPBS/E) with any degree of effectiveness if one is completely unwitting of the legitimate grievances recognized by most people with any degree of engagement — it is also foolish to contemplate for one instant a US “human intelligence” professional going unnoticed anywhere in the world, unless one is acutely conscious of reality.,

2012/12/112012/12/12

2012 Global Trends 2030: Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts

Director of National Intelligence et al (IC)

NOTE: This is the final report with new comments. Comments were made on the earlier elements of this report on year ago. Robert Steele: Global Trends 2030 – Gaps + RECAP

Best External Snapshot:

2012-12-10 Nicole Gaouette, Four ‘Megatrends' Reshaping the World: U.S. Intelligence (BloombergBusinessweek)

New technologies, dwindling resources and explosive population growth in the next 18 years will alter the global balance of power and trigger radical economic and political changes at a speed unprecedented in modern history, says a new report by the U.S. intelligence community.

Those major trends are the end of U.S. global dominance, the rising power of individuals against states, a rising middle class whose demands challenge governments, and a Gordian knot of water, food and energy shortages, according to the analysts.

…what sets the next quarter century apart is the way seven “tectonic shifts” are combining to drive change at an accelerating rate, said NIC Counselor Mathew Burrows, the report’s principle author. Those factors are: the growth of the middle class, wider access to new technologies, shifting economic power, aging populations, urbanization, growing demand for food and water, and U.S. energy independence

CIA Copy (22MB): Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds

Our Copy (7MB): Global Trends 2030 7MB Full Report 166 Pages Dec 2012

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2012/12/112012/12/11

Berto Jongman: Anonymous to Leak “Unprecedented Amounts of Data” — Project Mayhem

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Officers Call, YouTube

Anonymous to Leak “Unprecedented Amounts of Data” Starting with December 10 – Video

Starting with December 10 and until December 21, Anonymous hacktivists plan on leaking “an unprecedented amount” of corporate, financial, military and state data as part of the campaign called Project Mayhem 2012.

According to the hackers, the information has been secretly gathered by whistleblowers, vigilantes and conscientious citizens.

“The global economic system will start the final financial meltdown,” the hackers stated. “People all over the world, out of fear to go bankrupt, will try to withdraw their savings from their bank accounts. This will trigger an even larger meltdown wave.”

They added, “Imagine the corrupted start to fear us. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny, but when the government fears the people, there is liberty. People shouldn't fear of their government. Governments should fear their people.”

See other Anonymous YouTubes.