How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses
Silent Coup
By DAVID PRICE
Exposing the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program
By DAVE H. PRICE
Worth a Look: CRS on Israel’s Blocade of Gaza and the Mavi Marmara Incident
08 Wild Cards, Worth A LookWorth a Look: SIPRI 10 June Taking Stock
08 Wild Cards, Worth A Look
About Dr. Bates Gill (US), New and seventh Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Intitute
Most interesting sentence:
The number of civilians mandated for roles in United Nations missions has increased, as has the number of multilateral civilian peace missions. Yet, the international community’s record in strengthening civilian capacities in peace operations is decidedly mixed. These efforts still lack conceptual coherency and intra- and inter-organizational cooperation, and major operational challenges persist. The emergent ambition to significantly reform and improve civilian operations is timely and much needed but should not have over-expectations of success at this point.
Phi Beta Iota: The UN, despite its ponderous “dumb” bureaucracy and a plethora of spies who are more of a problem for their ignorance about their cover duties than as a welcome source of free meals, is actually maturing as an organization. The signal endeavors are the Brahimi Report, the report of the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change; and most recently, the report of the Panel on Coherence, whose signal descriptor, “Deliver As One,” simultaneously defines the incapacity of the UN, and the objective. The UN is also toying–with enormous resistance from the entrenched mandarins–with hybrid efforts such as are represented by the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). The latter is very much in keeping with the brilliant analytics and related recommendations of J. F. Rischard, then World Bank Vice-President for Europe, whose book HIGH NOON: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them, which remains one of the seminal works of our time–elegant, erudite, relevant, and readable. There is a hybrid, bottom-up, collective intelligence, non-zero revolution going on around the world.
See Also:
Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game
Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach
Review: Evolutionary Activism by Tom Atlee
Review: Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
Worth A Look: AFCEA White Papers
Worth A LookLatest:
The Intelligence Community: New Challenges, Sources, and Methods
Congress and the Intelligence Community: Rebuilding Trust
Intelligence Support to Critical Infrastructure Protection
Enabling a Responsive and Agile Intelligence Enterprise
Information Sharing and Collaboration: Planning, Budgeting, and Execution
The Need to Share: The U.S. Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement
The Last Tactical Mile…and the First
Lessons Learned: Building a New National Intelligence Partnership
Intelligence: The Way Forward
Making Analysis Relevant: It's More than Connecting the Dots
Intelligence and the New National Security Environment
National Security and Horizontal Integration
Worth a Look: Tech secrets–21 useful facts
Worth A Look01 Your ISP Is a Copyright Cop . . . 02 Cell Phones Don't Crash Airplanes . . . 03 ‘Private' or ‘Incognito' Browsing…Isn't . . . 04 You're Spending Too Much on Printer Ink . . . 05 End User License Agreements May Not Be Enforceable . . . 06 The Cyberwar Is Heating Up (and Uncle Sam Is Losing) . . . 07 Google Could Rat You Out . . . 08 Pacemakers and Other Implants Can Be Hacked . . . 09 Your PC May Be Killing You . . . 10 Antivirus Software Won't Protect You . . . 11 Your Cell Phone Is a Homing Beacon . . . 12 A ‘Cheap' Smartphone Is a Rip-Off . . . 13 Your Webcam May Be Watching You . . . 14 Your Boss Can (and Probably Does) Monitor Your Computer . . . 15 You Can Fight the RIAA and Win . . . 16 Your Passport Could Make You a Target for Crime–Wirelessly . . . 17 The Social Web Never Forgets . . . 18 You Can Escape Almost Any Service Contract Without Penalties . . . 19 The NSA Is Tapping Your Data Stream . . . 20 Your Facebook Apps Are Spying on You . . . 21 Your Geolocation Data Is Not Private
Worth a Look: Campaign to End Bottled Water Waste
12 Water, Worth A Look
This is an extremely righteous example of citizen intelligence–a brilliant compilation of FACTS presented in a compelling manner intended to inspire ACTION by hundreds of millions of independent citizens whose governments cannot be relied upon to produce public intelligence in the public interest.
– Much of the water is tapped water rather than spring water–both are contaminated from the overflow of chemicals that we allow to freely enter our groundwater sources.
– More water is used in the manufacture and transport of bottled water than is contained in the bottles themselves.
– There is no regulatory oversight beyond ONE person on the safety of this water.
Worth a Look: Recent Additions
Worth A LookPhi Beta Iota dates materials such as handbooks to their date of original publication. When warranted, we will highlight new additions that are not visible to visitors because of our practice.
Handbook: Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism (UNODC, April 2009)
