The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Interview With Admiral Mullen by Fareed Zakaria, CNN Transcript and YouTube
Interview with General Patraeus by Christine Amanpour, CNN Story
There's ‘Work To Be Done,' 9/11 Commission Chairs Say (Lee Hamilton, Thomas Kean)
The war of new words: Why military history trumps buzzwords (Willam F. Own)
Let's Take Bureaucracy Out Of Intelligence (John Bolton)
Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse (Victor Davis Hanson)
Somebody somewhere has to do this, and do it with over 90 nations, all NGOs, and global reach into all academic and private sector organizations desiring to share information and do multilateral sense-making.
References:
2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy
Forthcoming in Strategic Studies Institute Mongraph on Human Intelligence (HUMINT) approved for publication by CIA and DoD. In the interim, can be seen at www.oss.net/HUMINT.
Open design is the development of physical products, machines and systems through use of publicly shared design information. The process is generally facilitated by the Internet and often performed without monetary compensation. The goals and philosophy are identical to open source, but reside in a different paradigm.
Phi Beta Iota: The emergent Open Design community is a bit too focused on products, i.e. open source hardware. Open Design can and should apply to all processes, all services, all products. Unlike the assembly line focus on the Industrial Era, Open Design would integrate 360 degree cultural values (e.g. organic food to slow food to food-based dialog) and fully integrate the humanities with the mechanics to achieve Consilience.
Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation.
The use of citizen-science networks often allows scientists to accomplish research objectives more feasibly than would otherwise be possible. In addition, these projects aim to promote public engagement with the research, as well as with science in general. Some programs provide materials specifically for use by primary or secondary school students. As such, citizen science is one approach to informal science education.
Phi Beta Iota: Citizen Science is in its infancy, but with the emergence of open source software and open source intelligence combinations such as represented by SourceMap.org, Citizen Intelligence and Citizen Counterintelligence are sure to be coming along soon….and if combined with multi-lingual networks such as provided by Telelanguage, a global multinational citizen information-sharing and sense-making grid can be created that implements the Swedish vision of M4IS2: Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making. This has enormous implications for both real-time science and real-time warning as well as real-time Emergency Action.
Leo is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab, a designer and an artist. He teaches the MIT class Future Craft: Radical Sustainability in Product Design on the social aspects of mass design. You can also find his blog, photos, and videos. To find out more and for contact information, download his resume.
PhD Thesis Proposal: “A Collective Approach to Sustainable Design”
SourceMap.org visible supply chains
Phi Beta Iota: We are deeply inpressed by this individual, who crosses harnesses Collective Intelligence to achieve Commercial Value in both Cultural and Earth contexts. His idea is infinitely scalable, infinitely valuable, and applicable to every single product and service on the planet, ultimately to included planned giving at the item level.
Wall Street Journal Reuel Marc Gerecht January 8, 2010 [safety copy of entire piece below the fold]
Amid the Hysteria, A Look at What al-Qaeda Can't Do
TIME Magazine By Peter Beinart Monday, Jan. 18, 2010
National Journal By James Kitfield Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010 [Subscription]
Hidden behind walls of top-secret classification, senior U.S. government officials meet in what is essentially a star chamber to decide which enemies of the state to target for assassination. There is no single master list, but all names pass through an elaborate, multi-agency vetting process that ends at the level of the National Security Council and ultimately requires presidential approval.
Overwhelm. Divide. Spread. Bankrupt. Diversify: Al Qaeda's new grand strategy
Washington Post By Bruce Hoffman January 10, 2010
London Sunday Times By David Leppard and Hala Jaber January 10, 2010
Continue reading “Journal: What Al Qaeda Et Al Can and Cannot Do”
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