Patrick Meier: Use of Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters

Using Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters The analysis of cell phone data can already be used to predict mobility patterns after major natural disasters. Now, a new peer-reviewed scientific study suggests that travel patterns may also be predictable using tweets generated following large disasters. In “Quantifying Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Hurricane Sandy,” co-authors Qi Wang and …

2014 Robert Steele: LA IMPORTANCIA DE LAS RELACIONES CIVICO – MILITARES EN EL PROCESO DE PROFESIONALIZACIÓN DE LOS SERVICIOS DE INTELIGENCIA

MISIÓN: Ayudar a la nueva Secretaría de Inteligencia Ecuatoriana evitar errores de inteligencia occidentales y elaborar un nuevo enfoque de la inteligencia nacional que es holística, conscientes de los costos reales, y de apoyo de interes del Presidente en código abierto todo ingeniería. De paso, para proponer que este modelo sea presentada a otros países …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon (and CIA) Breaking Oracle — the Surveillance State Goes Open Source

Amazon and Oracle: The Love Affair Ends I recall turning in a report about Amazon’s use of Oracle as its core database. The client, a bank type operation, was delighted that zippy Amazon had the common sense to use a name brand database. For the bank types, recognizable names used to be indicators of wise …

ANSWERS to Spanish Dancer on CIA and SOF Replacing Conventional Forces

My Masters is focused on Strategic Studies and International Security and my thesis is about the relevance of the black-ops (paramilitary) to the detriment of the conventional military operations in America´s foreign policy. Basically I argue (due to literature that I´ve been revising for more than a year) that it is a fact that since …

Berto Jongman: It’s Official — US an Oligarchy Controlled by 42 People

Six related headlines. Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy (TalkingPointsMemo) Using data drawn from over 1,800 different policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, the two conclude that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of or even against the will of the majority of voters. …