The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Obama: Would be ‘personal insult' to legacy if black voters don't back Clinton
(NYT) With Democratic leaders increasingly worried about a lack of passion for Hillary Clinton among young black voters, President Obama is rolling out a new and more personal campaign message: “It’s about me.”
Obama: Low Turnout By Black Voters Would Be ‘A Personal Insult’
Brain cancer replaces leukemia as deadliest cancer for kids, study shows
The new numbers are a result of major advances in leukemia treatment and lack of progress when it comes to brain cancer, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Further to the Phi Beta Iota comments on the mistaken limitation of OSINT to passive monitoring of web sites and such….
Prevalent approaches to countering ‘radicalisation’ ineffective, conceptually flawed
“A lack of research based on primary sources has been one of the major impediments to progress in the field of (counter-) terrorism studies… As numerous leading experts have warned, the consequences of an overreliance on secondary sources of information, such as newspapers, has led to a great amount of theorising based on a perilously small empirical foundation.”
More extracts, 2 cartoons, comment by Robert Steele below.
Continue reading “Antechinus: CIA Killed OSINT at Birth — 80% of “OSINT” Studies are Bullshit”
Just Wait Until Data Thieves Start Releasing Altered and Fake Emails
It's one thing for someone to air your dirty laundry. It's another thing entirely to throw in a few choice items that aren't real.
Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman.
Earth’s wilderness could be lost by 2050, tenth already destroyed – study
Writing for the journal Current Biology, researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society have revealed that over the last 20 or so years, the Earth has lost 3.3 million square kilometers (1.27 million square miles) of wilderness – an area twice the size of Alaska and half the size of the Amazon rainforest – with the Amazon and Central Africa being the worst off. . . . “Globally important wilderness areas – despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world’s most politically and economically marginalized communities – are completely ignored in environmental policy,” says Dr. James Watson of the University of Queensland in Australia and the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Earth Wilderness – 10% Gone, Rest by 2050?”
Other Clinton Health Posts Below the Fold
Ben Benavides, retired US Army master trainer, is as good as it gets in Army OSINT, but not widely enough known. He should be in charge of creating the Army OSINT Handbook and training program, AFTER we put CIA in its place and establish that overt HUMINT is OSINT and cannot be constrained by those who refused to be serious about overt human sources (CIA also forbids its own Open Source Center from talking to overt Subject Matter Experts (SME). Really. We do not make this stuff up.
Also by Ben Benavides:
2016 Ben Benavides OSINT 2ool Kit On The Go Bag (Bag O’Tradecraft)
Ben Benavides: Exploring Social Media Web Sites: A Guide for the Open Source Analyst
