The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Coincident with the emergence of the Collective Intelligence and Open Everything movements, and despite the enormous fragmentation of human knowledge by an academy that has lost sight of the importance of multi-disciplinary or “holistic” human intelligence, the field of Evolutionary Psychology is maturing rapidly while also branching to connect to Neuroscience. On …
Pre-quel America’s absurd stab at systematising sock puppetry Promising mid-career officer’s comments: Have you seen this? Passing off DoD-sponsored “sock puppets” as Information Operations (IO) is ridiculous on its face, as it is a waste of time, tax-payer dollars, and once again represents a one-off, niche contractor hardware/software solution that will show not only no …
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Listening to the Foes of Globalization Laurence Brahm South China Morning Post, 11/22/2005 EXTRACT: Ironically, those in the so –called anti- globalization movement are all for the globalization of information. Mobile phone and the Internet are most critical tools, forming an underground media that people globally must now turn to in order to understand what …
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America’s absurd stab at systematising sock puppetry The US has a chance to move on from a history of clandestine foreign policy – instead it acts like a clumsy spammer Jeff Jarvis The Guardian, 17 March 2011 The US government’s plan to use technology to create and manage fake identities for social interaction with terrorists …
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REFERENCE Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar A cyberwar is brewing, and Anonymous reprisal attacks on HBGary Federal shows how deep the war goes. Haroon Meer 10 Mar 2011 16:11 GMT Al Jazeera . . . . . . . Even while Barr was proclaiming victory and threatening to “take the gloves off”, Anonymous were burrowing …
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Ran Hock 6 Stars–The ONE Essential Reference March 13, 2011 I’ve known Ran Hock for close to twenty years, and now that Mary Ellen Bates (MEB) and Reva Basch are retired (see their last books below), Ran is more or less the last man standing in the independent information brokerage domain, at least that I …
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In the fall of 2010, CACI of Arlington, a major player in the U.S. government’s cyber security business, held a symposium entitled “Cyber Threats to National Security,” in partnership with the U.S. Naval Institute to discuss the issue of Cyber Security. CACI is chasing roughly $2 billion worth of cyber-related contracts over the next few …
