Handbook: UN FINCENT Building Blocks in Crisis Management (1:2008)
HUMINT, IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Peace Intelligence, Stabilization, UN/NGO, United Nations & NGOsHandbook: UN FINCENT Varying Cultures in Modern Crisis Management (1:2009)
Cultural Intelligence, HUMINT, IO Sense-Making, Peace Intelligence, Stabilization, UN/NGO, United Nations & NGOs
Link fixed 20 Dec 09
Reference: Walter Dorn on UN Intelligence in Haiti
01 Poverty, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, Academia, Analysis, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Ethics, Government, InfoOps (IO), Law Enforcement, Methods & Process, Military, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence, United Nations & NGOs
UPDATE: Superceeded by final published version a tReference: Intelligence-Led Peacekeeping
Phi Beta Iota: Dr. Walter Dorn is one of a tiny handful of truly authoritative academic observers of UN intelligence, a pioneer in his own right, and perhaps the only person who has followed UN intelligence from the Congo in the 1960's to the creation of new capabilities in Haiti and elsewhere in the 21st Century. He is the dean of UN intelligence authors. See also Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Walter Dorn.
Journal: ClimateGate 19 December 2009 Morning
Earth Intelligence
Fraud in Europe's Cap and Trade System a ‘Red Flag,' Critics Say
The top cops in Europe say carbon-trading is an organized crime scheme that has robbed the continent of $7.4 billion — a massive fraud that lawmakers and energy experts say should send a “red flag” to the U.S., which approved cap-and-trade legislation over the summer amid stiff opposition.
How Uncertain Are Estimates of CO2 Emissions?
Can satellite or other remotely sensed data provide independent estimates—or even confirmation of existing estimates—for emissions from power plants, highways, projects, cities, countries, or groups of countries? The answer for now is no; estimates of emissions from fossil fuels are actually one of the best constrained pieces of data in analyzing the global carbon cycle.
Copenhagen: Key questions on climate deal
Amid the chaos and confusion of frantic negotiations on the final night of the summit, what kind of deal actually emerged
Message on climate emotive, but a fraud
THE Copenhagen conference was rightly killed by greed, science fiction and a surfeit of hot air emitted by the 45,000 delegates, rent-seekers and assorted hangers-on, all of whom attempted to defy common sense and cripple the global economy.
Mass insanity in Copenhagen
A good definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. In that sense, the approach of the United Nations in Copenhagen to addressing climate change has been insane.
As they did 12 years ago in Kyoto, Japan, world leaders have apparently jammed together an eleventh-hour deal in an atmosphere of manufactured hysteria and artificial deadlines. This is a farcical way to deal with what these leaders claim is an existential threat to mankind. Whatever they've agreed to has nothing to do with cooling our planet.
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Reference: Life-Cycle Costing–A Question of Value
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Journal: Well-Intentioned Idiocy Abounds….
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Headlines Only:
Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated)
Spytech Agency Wants Software Brains to Connect the Dots
Training For The Civilian Surge
TSA Cannot Order Sites to Take Down Sensitive Manual
Headlines and Snippets Below the Fold with Phi Beta Iota Comment
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Journal: Director of National Intelligence Alleges….
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Phi Beta Iota: Our commentary was posted 19 Dec 09, well prior to the two debacles:
Journal: Underpants Bomber Shines Light on Naked USG–Without Four Reforms, USA Locked in Place
Journal: Death of CIA Personnel in Afghanistan
Original Op-Ed Online Strengthening Our Nation's Front Line Of Defense
By Dennis C. BlairFriday, December 18, 2009
Phi Beta Iota: This is a seriously misleading article, our comments are provided after each paragraph.
The legislation authorizing post-Sept. 11 intelligence reform — the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 — was signed into law five years ago this week. We are often asked whether the new organizations, authorities and additional resources have made a difference. The answer is yes.
Phi Beta Iota: In combination with the Patriot Act, which was not read before passage, the legislation has perpetuated all of the bad practices of the past and poured gasoline on the fire by giving incompetent intelligence managers more money. America is less safe today because of the combination of $75 billion a year wasted on a system that still does not process more than 10% of what it collects, still cannot do machine speed multi-lingual exploitation, and still cannot do multinational human engagement and multi-lingual open source.
To be clear, the task of reinventing our intelligence structure and integrating the capabilities, cultures and information technologies of 16 diverse intelligence agencies is massive, and it is incomplete. Problems persist in our technologies, business practices and mind-sets. I have no illusions about how challenging they will be to overcome. But there is an ocean of difference between difficult and impossible.
Phi Beta Iota: Every single criticism in ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA, 2000) remains valid today. NOTHING HAS CHANGED in the way of fundamentals. The clandestine service is still full of cowboys under official cover; there still is no processing; the CIA analysts are babies and the DIA analysts are brain dead; technical sources are too big, too late, and too expensive; the list is long. Analysts still spend a quarter of their time trying to access the disparate classified databases at the same time that the Open Source Center remains a national disgrace, unable to do multinational engagement and totally out of touch with the 80% of the information we need that is free, open, and in 183 languages we do not speak. Note: Blair has a set of Steele's book in his possession, he obviously has not read them or this article of his would be completely different. He has no power, no authority, no vision, and with the possible exception of Andy Shepard, no one with a proven track record of knowing what is actually needed–Shepard knew in 1992 and has had to wait 17 years to be heard.
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