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Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

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The future of OSINT is M4IS2.

The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2).

The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb):

Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) the instant it is received at any level by any civilian or military element responsive to global OSINT grid.  This includes all of the contextual agency and mission specific information from the civilian elements previously stove-piped or disgarded, not only within the US, but ultimately within all 90+ participating nations.

Rule 2: In return for Rule 1, the US IC agrees that the Department of State (and within DoD, Civil Affairs) is the proponent outside the wire, and the sharing of all OSIF originating outside the US IC is at the discretion of State/Civil Affairs without secret world caveat or constraint.  OSIF collected by US IC elements is NOT included in this warrant.

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Journal: Marcus Aureleus Recommends…

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CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces

Q&A: Climate cash controversy

Global warming industry becomes too big to fail

UN: fight against Congo rebels failing

More Troops to Afghanistan, But What Will They Do?

Where Has the Thrill Gone? The Harder They Fall

Phi Beta Iota: “Too Big to Fail” is industrial era idiocy.  REALITY tells us that the more complex a system gets, the more it DEMANDS self-healing from the bottom-up.  Feedback loops at all levels, each with their integrity intact.  What all of the headlines above have in common is precisely the opposite: degraded feedback loops lacking integrity.

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Journal: Wall Street Scam Collateral Damage II

03 Economy, Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Methods & Process, Policy, Reform, Strategy

Collateral Damager Part II
Collateral Damage Part II

Collateral Damage (Part 2):

The Subprime Crisis and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11 2001_2612

The time has come for the public to do its own intelligence on treason and fraud.  This second part of the report names many names, including Henry Kissinger.  The two reports together, in our judgment, amply justify a public demand for a Grand Jury to indict all named individuals.

Collateral Damage Part I

Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up!

Better link, thanks to Chaos Computer Club.

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Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up!

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EDIT:  See alsoJournal: Wall Street Scam Collateral Damage II

From a Source in Moscow (First Two Paragraphs Only)

Russian trade ministry officials are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that China is preparing to plunge the United States and European Union into the “dustbin of history” as major World economic powers over their, the West’s, deliberate collapsing of the present Global economic system in order to install their long sought after New World Order.

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China’s intent to carry out on their threat, these reports say, began this past week when, as perhaps best stated by one American financial analyst, China told the West to go “straight to hell” when the Chinese stated they would deliberately default on Trillions-of dollars in US backed debt security instruments called  OTC  because they were fraudulently created by Western bankers and as such are now considered an “act of war”.

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Journal: True Cost–Cash for Clunkers

03 Economy, 11 Society, Analysis, Budgets & Funding, Policy, True Cost

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Cash for Clunkers Actual Cost: $24,000 per Car

By Chip Hanlon | 11/02/09

Auto industry research firm, Edmunds, says the program actually cost $24,000 per car!

In summary: the administration loves to tout the 690,000 vehicles sold in July and August, but the Edmunds report says that only 125,000 (18%) of those sales were incremental, meaning the remaining 82% of sales would have happened regardless of the program.

In other words, 565,000 people were given free money for no reason at all, just as critics of this program predicted would happen.

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Search: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield

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If one takes the “battlefield” to include all challenges, not just the challenge of a battle in a singular time and place, then this search is the mother of all searches.

We like to use the analogy of sailboat racing, something we learned from a video,  DVD: THE ART OF RACING SAILING.  This DVD begins with an inspection of the hull of the sailboat out of the water and the point is that the race is often won or lost BEFORE THE RACE EVEN BEGINS.  If you have failed to assure a correct hull; if you have failed to train, equip, and organize the right forces for the right mission, if you have failed to understand the historical, cultural, and geographical reality you are entering into a context with; then no amount of excellence on the field itself will prevail.

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