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Vivian Lee: Istanbul Airport Opens 4.5 Hours After Possible False Flag Attack Allegedly Killing 42 and Injuring 239

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Misinformation & Propaganda, Officers Call
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Istanbul Airport Opens 4 1⁄2 Hours after Triple Suicide Bombing Attack

In a stunning turnaround, the Istanbul Ataturk Airport opened for business at 2:20 am local time on Wednesday June 29, after the alleged triple suicide bombing that began at 9:50 pm the night before. In a little over four hours, the airport was able to clean up all the blood and body parts that would have resulted from the mass shooting and three bombs that were said to have been detonated.[1] At present, the death toll is reported at 42, with 239 injured.

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Berto Jongman: The Wonder and Terror of Propaganda – How Modern Governments Misuse Media to Manipulate the Bewildered Herd

11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
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Berto Jongman

The Wonder and Terror of Propaganda: How Modern Governments Misuse Media to Manipulate the Bewildered Herd

In this article, I will be dissecting Noam Chomsky’s book Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, in an attempt to answer five questions:

  1. What is a democracy and how does it function?
  2. What is propaganda and why does it exist?
  3. How is our behaviour being shaped by the media?
  4. Who are controlling things behind the scenes?
  5. How can we defend ourselves against malicious propaganda campaigns?

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Worth a Look: To the Secretary – Leaked Embassy Cables and America’s Foreign Policy Disconnect

02 Diplomacy, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
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This title will be released on 12 July and is available now for pre-order.

To the Secretary also reveals the disconnect that diplomats face at home, guided by conflicting approaches from multiple Washington stakeholders intent on their own agenda, often unaware of realities on the ground. In an honest assessment of America’s foreign policy challenges, Thompson-Jones describes the deepening gulf between decision makers in Washington and their diplomats in the field. From misinterpreted analyses of anti-Americanism to Washington’s unwillingness to send resources to support diplomatic activities that could make a difference, To the Secretary shows what policymakers can learn from diplomats abroad―and how this can strengthen America’s place in an unstable world.

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Mongoose: ATM Skimmer Alert

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Tip of the Hat to Benjamin Tedesco at LinkedIn.

Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid!

While on vacation with my family in Vienna, Austria, I went to grab some cash from an ATM. Being security paranoid, I repeated my typical habit of checking the card reader with my hand as I have 100's of times… today's the day when my security awareness paid off! Check out  my discovery of a custom made card skimmer that perfectly matches up to this ATM machine!

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Berto Jongman: The Empty Brain by Robert Epstein

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence
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Berto Jongman

The empty brain

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

by Robert Epstein

Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For more than half a century now, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and other experts on human behaviour have been asserting that the human brain works like a computer.

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Chuck Spinney: Glenn Greenwald on the Insularity and Failure of Western “Establishment” Institutions

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
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Chuck Spinney

Below is Glenn Greenwald’s long but incisive critique of the neo-liberal — neo-conservative establishment politics of the last 25 years that are at the roots of popular discontent now sweeping the US, UK and Europe west of Russia.  It is well worth reading. CS

Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, June 25 2016, 11:48 a.m.

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Daniel Wahl: Transition Design as Holistic Science in Action

Cultural Intelligence, Design, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Peace Intelligence
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Daniel Wahl

Transition Design as Holistic Science in Action

In the face of the converging crises of climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation, and unacceptable economic inequality and suffering – particularly in the global South – designers everywhere are called to assume a deeper responsibility for the impacts of their work. Designers are finally stepping up to the challenge that David Orr so aptly described in The Nature of Design (link is external). We are challenged to “redesign the human presence on Earth.”

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“to make the World work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”

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