SPECIAL: The Death of Clandestine HUMINT in the Digital Age

ROBERT STEELE: Afer nine years as a spy including three back-to-back tours overseas with five times the regional recruiting and production record, in 1988 I conceptualized the modern discipline of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In 1993 Alvin Toffler built a chapter around me, “The Future of the Spy” and called me “the rival store” but …

Yoda: Alert Reader on Majestic 12 and Forthcoming Extraterrestrial Disclosure – Robert Steele Comments

Alert  Reader sends long extract. Robert Steele comments below fold. “Control of space means control of the world. From space, the masters of infinity would have the power to control the earthÂ’s weather, to cause drought and flood, to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the gulf stream and change temperate …

Winslow Wheeler: Is Military Industrial Complex Stabbing President Donald Trump in the Back By Heavily Funding Bernie Sanders?

* Bernie Sanders is attracting more defense-related campaign contributions than all of his rivals, including Donald Trump. * Sanders’ margin is frequently large — puling in multiples of what others have received, including Donald Trump. * On multiple specific measures, Trump is performing poorly in attracting defense-related contributions compared to several Democrats.

Steven Aftergood: CIA Closes Down OSINT, Commission Objects

Improved Access to Open Source Intelligence Urged Congress should require the Director of National Intelligence to make open source intelligence more widely available, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommended in its latest annual report. Last June, the former OpenSource.gov web portal was “decommissioned.” Its contents were transferred to classified or restricted networks that are mostly …

Mongoose: The Russian Submarine Fleet — Real Threat or US Navy Budget-Building Gambit?

Daily Mail (UK), 31 October 2019: Russian nuclear submarines sailed past UK waters on secret mission into the Atlantic to prove they can strike the United States in largest operation since the Cold War Mirror (UK), 30 October 2019: Putin deploys 10 heavily armed submarines for secretive mission to the US Business Insider, 14 October …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Mind Control Through Book Control

Why Analyzing Amazon EBook Reading Lists Is Useful An intriguing study in machine-learning models suggests human language behaviors may be more affected by what we read than previously thought. Neuroscience News tells us “What 26,000 Books Reveal When it Comes to Learning Language.” Brendan T. Johns, an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo, and …