The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Microtasking Advocacy and Humanitarian Response in Somalia I’ve been working on bridging the gap between the technology innovation sector and the humanitarian & human rights communities for years now. One area that holds great promise is the use of microtasking for advocacy and humanitarian response. So I’d like to share two projects I’m spearheading with the …
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Open Source Intelligence Requires an Open Source Agency
Mitch Ratcliffe, Jon Lebkowsky 5.0 out of 5 stars SIX STAR #OWS Primer Wow Wow Wow,October 20, 2011 I bought this book in October 2010 because I was getting to know both Mitch Ratcliff and Jon Lebkowsky better, but at first pass through it did not really draw me in. Then OccupyWallStreet happened. I read …
John Lenczowski 5.0 out of 5 stars Long Needed Treatise, But Too Expensive,September 21, 2011 EDIT of 11 December 2011: Gene Poteat, President of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) has an excellent review of this book in the Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Intelligencer. The following quote is from his review, it captures the …
Nothing changes…. US spy agencies ‘struggle with post-9/11 languages’ Despite intense focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East in the last decade, U.S. spy agencies are still lacking in language skills needed to talk to locals, translate intercepted intelligence and analyse data, according to top intelligence officials. Telegraph, 20 September 2011 The Sept. 11, …
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I was asked to come in and do this one, and did so gladly. Public intelligence in the public interest, done with integrity, is the global brain. The human brain is the only inexhaustible resource we have, and Priority One should be to empower the five billion poor with connectivity first, and access to all …
WordPress responds better to simple requests, for example,< dia dispo > yields a more limited results than < diospo > by itself, the most significant additional hit being 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings. Nothing DIA does really matters–its leadership, like that of NSA, CIA, and the NRO–lacks integrity. All of them are sucking …
