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steele smiling final — Robert David STEELE Vivas

I was asked to come in and do this one, and did so gladly. Public intelligence in the public interest, done with integrity, is the global brain. The human brain is the only inexhaustible resource we have, and Priority One should be to empower the five billion poor with connectivity first, and access to all possible knowledge, free, second. That will create infinite wealth and a prosperous world at peace. Those who oppose this are selfish and simple — in no way does this goal reduce the ill-gotten gains of those few who have profited at the expense of the many all these years — Truth & Reconciliation, rather than Impeachment and Hanging, is what we offer to those few. They should take the deal and be glad to get it. St.

WordPress can deal with – but not ably – compound questions — one reason why those who try to substitute technology for human thinking will always be severely challenged in the world of intelligence (decision-support). Automated search does not do nuances. Consider also using the new directories for major sets (Articles, Briefings, Graphics, RECAPs, & Searches) and remember that this web-site is the front end to www.oss.net (40,000 pages, 800 contributors) and www.earth-intelligence.net (1000 pages, 24 contributors). The Remixed Review Lists (70) are now a year out of date, but still an excellent starting point.

Negatives had to be excluded. We do not have a world brain today because governments and corporations are corrupt and deliberately blocking all possible initiatives associated with “Open Everything.” Right now corruption, fraud, gambling, and pornography rule.

The next “shift” for good might be among the young and world presidents, stimulated by their membership out of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Iranian diasphora, Russia, and Venezuela. It is obvious that the one billion rich with a one trillion a year economy have been both well and ill served by predatory industrial-era capitalism, and that the next big big new new thing is capitalism of, by, and for the five billion poor with a four trillion a year economy. Lacking has been the shared open source agency, analytic model, and real-time information sharing grid to achieve near-real-time identification and satisfaction–for profit and in a sustainable manner–all global to local needs.

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Global brain aka world brain aka global mind
Human brain aka human intelligence aka models for thinking
Human brain manifest in networks

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2011/09/092011/09/12

Owl: Obama Feared Coup in 2008 if Prosecutions of Bush Team, CIA, NSA Went Forward

09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement, Military

Some insights into how Obama team perceived their vulnerability if they went after war crimes during the Bush era.

Obama Team Feared Coup If He Prosecuted War Crimes

By Andrew Kreig

OpEdNews, 7 September 2011

President-Elect Obama's advisers feared in 2008 that authorities would oust him in a coup and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to a law school dean who served as one of Obama's top transition advisers.

University of California at Berkeley Law School Dean Christopher Edley, Jr., above, the sixth highest-ranking member of the 2008 post-election transition team preparing Obama's administration, revealed the team's thinking on Sept. 2 in moderating a forum on 9/11 held by his law school (also known as Boalt Hall). Edley was seeking to explain Obama's “look forward” policy on suspected Bush-era law-breaking that the president-elect announced on a TV talk show in January 2009.

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2011/09/092011/09/09

Richard Wright: It’s Only Money – Why the IC Continues to Fail & Robert Steele: 10% Grade – A Dishonorable Discharge Needed

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Cyberscams, malware, spam, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), IO Impotency

Its Only Money

The posting of Jim Bamford’s Politico article on today’s Public Intelligence Blog or rather the accompanying comment on it by Robert Steele [Jim Bamford: How 9/11 Fearmongering Grew NSA Into a Very Expensive Domestic Surveillance Monster] identifies the principal problem with the outrageously expensive NSA. His comment is directly related to earlier comments he made on a Wall Street Journal article written by General Jim Clapper (USAF ret.) the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) [David Isenberg: Jim Clapper Claims Transformation — Robert Steele Comments on Each Misrepresentation] Steele did a brilliant job of refuting the claims that General Clapper advanced in this article about how much the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has improved since 9/11. Yet the article really wasn’t serious to begin with because it obviously was written with the purpose of telling the American people what the General wanted them to know. I am sure it was vetted carefully by his staff and possibly CIA as well.

In the interests of clearing the air a bit I would like to add a couple of comments of my own to supplement those that Steele has made.

In the wake of 9/11 people, who did not know what they were talking about, had a good deal to say concerning the “lack of sharing” within the IC. In point of fact NSA and its technical counterpart the National Geo-spatial [Intelligence] Agency (NGA) are required by law to make their products available to analysts holding the proper clearances in entire IC as well as the President and his National Security Staff. The real lack of sharing was and is between the FBI and CIA. The FBI is unwilling to share because its agents fear damaging ongoing investigations while CIA is unwilling to share because its intelligence officers fear compromising sensitive sources. Had this issue been approached with integrity and directly between the two agencies it could have been resolved years ago.

General Clapper argued that the changed “culture” within the intelligence community had made its members much more efficient at dealing transnational terrorist and criminal organizations. Neither CIA nor NSA has a clue on how to deal with widely dispersed networked type of organizations. Indeed CIA has yet to build a realistic model of the organizational structure or personnel staffing of al Qaeda. CIA’s current methodology of using ‘targeters’ to find and track individual al Qaeda members is simply doing what the original CIA Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) was doing in the 1990s. Indeed their analytic approach is the same as used during the Cold War with “Soviet Type Armed Forces” (the actual name of a class that many of us attended).

Finally there are Bamford’s article and Steele’s comments on it. Steele in his comments went right to the heart of the matter by noting that NSA was incapable of processing more than a small percentage of the material it collects on a 24/7 basis. This goes directly to an issue that General Clapper clearly did not wish to discuss in his article: for all the money being poured into NSA specifically and the IC more broadly, how much return in enhanced security are we really getting? It would not seem to make much sense to continue to spend even more money for collection systems to collect ever more traffic if what is being gathered now can’t be adequately processed.

Robert Steele: Emphasis added above. Richard Wright (Retired Reader at Amazon) focuses on the longest largest divide in the US intelligence community itself, as well as the complete abject failure of analysis as a whole and analysis in relation to crime and terrorism, but it bears mention that other divides are equally unattended to by the current leadership:

1) The secret world ignores 90% of the full-spectrum threat to obsess on counter-terrorism (badly).

2) The secret world ignores 90% of the Whole of Government customer base, while badly serving the President and a few senior national security officials. It is worthless on strategy, acquisition, campaign planning, and tactical real-time actionable intelligence in 183 languages.

3) The secret world ignores 90% of the relevant sources (in 183 languages) and methods (modern human and machine processing that is commonplace within major insurance and financial companies).

On a scale of 100%, ten years after 9/11, the US secret intelligence world earns a grade of 10% (not just failing, but a dishonorable discharge and shame for all eternity). The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) are been impotent since their inception, and appear content to continue in that fashion.

2011/09/092011/09/09

Jim Bamford: How 9/11 Fearmongering Grew NSA Into a Very Expensive Domestic Surveillance Monster

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, DHS, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, InfoOps (IO), IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military

September 11 fearmongering grew NSA

Jim Bamford

Politico, 9/8/11

Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today, the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide.

Within weeks of the attacks, the giant ears of the National Security Agency, always pointed outward toward potential enemies, turned inward on the American public itself. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, established 23 years before to ensure that only suspected foreign agents and terrorists were targeted by the NSA, would be bypassed. Telecom companies, required by law to keep the computerized phone records of their customers confidential unless presented with a warrant, would secretly turn them over in bulk to the NSA without ever asking for a warrant.

. . . . . .

So much intercepted information is now being collected from “enemies” at home and abroad that, in order to store it all, the agency last year began constructing the ultimate monument to eavesdropping. Rising in a remote corner of Utah, the agency’s gargantuan data storage center will be 1 million square feet, cost nearly $2 billion and likely be capable of eventually holding more than a yottabyte of data — equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.

. . . . . .

A surveillance system capable of monitoring 10 million people simultaneously this year will be able to monitor 100 million the next year — at probably half the cost. And every time new communications technology appears on the market, rest assured that someone at the NSA has already found a way to monitor it. It’s what the NSA does.

What Church likely never anticipated was the rise of the security-industrial complex, a revolving door between those generating the fears and those profiting from them.

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Phi Beta Iota: NSA leadership is blatantly corrupt (this is the same person who destroyed ABLE DANGER rather than share the information with the FBI). The only good news is that NSA is also inept–it processes less than one percent of what it captures, and is essentially cheating the taxpayer at the same time that it is spying on the taxpayer. The time has come to create a whole new cadre of ethical leaders who actually understand the new craft of intelligence as decision support (outputs) instead of budget share (inputs), and to slam it back from $90 billion a year toward $20 billion a year. With the savings the next President can afford to give all displaced personnel a year's salary and a year's re-training toward education, infrastructure, and information-era jobs.

2011/09/09

Chuck Spinney: Joseph Stiglitz on Needed Fiscal Policy

03 Economy, Civil Society, Commerce, Ethics, Government

In addition to making the United States a global laughing stock, last month's dismaying political circus over what used to be routine legislation to increase the debt ceiling solidified the “let them eat cake” politics among the courtiers and plutocrats calling the shots from behind the curtains in the hall of mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac. The general view is that there is nothing that can be done help the American people economically — at least some of the people — and those in trouble must tough it out on their own. Of course the funding for the perpetual war on terror will continue, and money will continue to flow to the welfare queens in the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex, although perhaps at a slower rate in the short term, not mention the continued subsidies flowing to the banksters, agribusiness, big pharma, etc.

One outcome is out in the open, however: Obama may talk about jobs, but a fiscal policy designed to put common folk back to work is a non starter.

Joseph Stiglitz is perhaps the most erudite exponent of fiscal policy among the mainstream economists. To be sure, in this age of name-calling, he would be labeled as being left of center, or perhaps branded as a dreaded progressive, or even worse, a hated lefty socialist, but no one (irrational nut cases excepted) would call him a whacko.

In the op-ed below, he makes the clearest and most concise argument for an activist fiscal policy that I have yet read. Even readers viscerally disposed to hate the Keynes' theory of fiscal policy make an effort to deconstruct his arguments, to see if they have the intellectual wherewithal to refute his points without resorting to name-calling.

[note: I reformatted the op-ed slightly to highlight his main points, but did not change any text — readers will find original version at the link.]

Chuck Spinney
Sanary sur Mer, France

Published on Thursday, September 8, 2011 by Politico.com

How to Put America Back to Work

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

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2011/09/092011/09/09

DefDog: PSYOP Reading List for Citizens

04 Education, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Book Lists, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, InfoOps (IO), IO Deeds of War

FYI……some good insight…..it is in the very fabric of society….

Towards a Psychological Operations Reading List

Skilluminati Research, 7 September 2011

Defining Psychological Operations is straightforward enough, but
determining where exactly it ends is extremely tricky. The US Department of Defense has infiltrated institutions around the world, they expend billions every year on domestic and foreign propaganda, yet they still only represent a single slice of the spectrum. Intelligence agencies, private think tanks and public corporations are all competing for attentional bandwidth, too. PSYOPS has become ubiquitous, metastasized into Standard Operating Procedure for the entire edifice of Western Culture. Our news and our entertainment, scientific studies, history books, political campaigns and activist movements are all just sponsored messages and paid promotions. From advertisements to astroturfing, everyone's got “desired effects” and everyone's got a “target audience” now.

Read list in context (commentary by the editors).

Phi Beta Iota: PSYOP succeed when education fails. Education fails and PSYOP succeed when integrity fails. This ultimately boils down to Philosophy and the Social Problem (Will Durant, 2008 x 1916).

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2011/09/092011/09/09

Search: dia diospo

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WordPress responds better to simple requests, for example,< dia dispo > yields a more limited results than < diospo > by itself, the most significant additional hit being 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings.

Nothing DIA does really matters–its leadership, like that of NSA, CIA, and the NRO–lacks integrity. All of them are sucking chest wounds on the Republic, along with the service “intelligence” elements. Below are four links, one positive, one provocative, one starkly negative, and the fourth referential.

Open Source Agency: Executive Access Point

Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)

David Isenberg: Jim Clapper Claims Transformation — Robert Steele Comments on Each Misrepresentation

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Most)

Two recent books are helpful in framing the current criminal insanity of how we “do” intelligence:

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence