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2016/09/282016/09/26

Del Spurlock: Propaganda Defeats the Public Interest — The Legalization of Lies, the Triumph of Corporations Over People

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Spinning the Inhumanity of our National Policies

We are failing to govern ourselves. The concept of American democracy has been driven from the field by the public relations industry.

Today we consume far beyond our means, are governed by the exploitation of our fears, and are denied the civic participation decreed by our Constitution.

…it was the Reagan Administration that delivered the most significant blow to our capacity to communicate with one another and thereby govern ourselves. The public relations cadre around the President lead by Michael Deaver and Charles Wick forced the abandonment of the FCC's Fairness Doctrine. The constraints on propaganda in the public media evaporated as did journalism's capacity to speak truth to power.

2016/09/282016/09/26

Berto Jongman: Military Victory is Dead

Corruption, Military, Peace Intelligence

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Military Victory is Dead

…military victory is dead. And it was killed by a bunch of cheap stuff.

By ML Cavanaugh

RealClear Defense, September 15, 2016

We live in the cheap war era, where the attacker has the advantage and the violent veto is always possible. Political leaders can speak and say tough stuff, promise ruthless revenge – it doesn’t matter, ultimately, because if you can’t disarm the enemy, you can’t parade the tanks.

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2016/09/272016/09/27

Graphics (5): Open Power Electoral Reform

Analysis, Citizen-Centered, Political

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Eligible voters — 70% blocked from ballot access
Electoral reform act — 12 elements
Transpartisan cabinet — team of rivals with integrity
Two-party tyranny pigs
One bird, two wings, same crap

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2016/09/272016/09/26

Yoda: Greg Satell in Forbes on Why Open Beats Closed

#OSE Open Source Everything

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Why Open Beats Closed

Greg Satell

Forbes, 26 September 2016

Now, however, it’s becoming increasingly clear that no one can go it alone and firms must choose where they will cooperate and where they will compete. This is especially true when it comes to innovation, where no single entity is likely to be able to develop more than a piece of the overall puzzle. Today, open systems are not a choice, They are an imperative.

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2016/09/272016/09/25

KINDLE: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Done Right: An Indictment of 25 years of expensive passive failure

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Books w/Steele, Ethics, OSINT Generic, Peace Intelligence

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This briefing has been funded and approved for delivery in its present form, in April 2016, to the military, police, and national intelligence services of Denmark. It was also presented in Norway, but less formally. As NATO and a number of countries “re-think” Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), this briefing and the related white paper, should help focus on the essentials that have been neglected for the past quarter century.

It is nothing less than an indictment of 25 years of expensive passive failure associated with the mis-direction of OSINT away from active human sourcing as I originally envisioned, toward passive online searching that is, as one study recently concluded, over 80% absolute garbage.

This is what BGen Dr. James Cox, the original sponsor of my work for NATO in 2000-2002, had to say in 2013:

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2016/09/272016/09/27

Stephen E. Arnold: US Government Struggling with IT — 77% of funding consumed by O&M — while Palantir sues US Army for business….

#OSE Open Source Everything, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military

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US Government: Computer Infrastructure

Notice that the US Federal government spent $0.68 cents of every IT dollar on operations and maintenance in 2010. Jump to the 2017 estimate. Notice that the status quo is likely to consume $0.77 cents of every IT dollar.

Bam! Pow! Zap! Palantir Steps Up Fight with US Army

I recall one Master of the Universe telling me, “Keep the client happy.” Today an alternative approach has emerged [and is being pioneered by Palantir]. I term it “Fight with the client.” I assume the tactic works really well.

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2016/09/262016/09/25

Anthony Judge: Time for Delivery of Food and Water Bombs by Drone? Voluminous thinking to complement the lateral thinking of the international community

Peace Intelligence

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Time for Delivery of Food and Water Bombs by Drone?

Voluminous thinking to complement the lateral thinking of the international community

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Given the enormous development of drone technology in relation to Middle Eastern arenas of conflict, there is clearly the option of delivering “food strikes” intelligently at far lower risk to those controlling the drones. Existing drones could be adapted to this end, as envisaged in 2012 (Airborne Drones Could Provide Innovative Method Of Delivering Food, Medicines, Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, 30 April 2012; Jack C. Chow, Drones have revolutionized war: why not let them deliver aid? Foreign Policy, 27 April 2012).

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