BOOK: The Art of Shaping the Metropolis
POSTS:
Metropolitan Governance Stripped Naked
Metropolises: Stop talking. Take action!
WEBSITE: Pedro Ortiz Online
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Bradley Grimm: Operational OSINT
Advanced Cyber/IO, Government
As presented to the Royal Danish Defence College on 18 April 2016.
All slides below the fold (no Notes).
Jean Lievens: David Graeber on Predatory Bureaucratization
Corruption, Government, Ineptitude
The era of predatory bureaucratization – An interview with David Graeber
David Graeber is an anthropologist and a well-known anarchist figure. He was one of the initiators of the Occupy movement in 2011. He is the author of a major essay, Debt, the First 5,000 Years. I met him in Paris for the release of his latest book, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
EXTRACT
…social movements are not about seizing power right away: it’s about changing the way we think about politics.
…feudalism. That’s what we have today: a fusion of public and private bureaucracies whose purpose is to create more and more debt that will then be the object of various forms of speculation.
Stephen E. Arnold: Stopping Google
Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency
Google. No One Can Stop It. No One. No One. Aaaargh.
After cranking out three monographs about the Google between 2004 and 2009, it is pretty clear that the Google is falling victim to flawed reproduction of its own DNA. The death of the Alphabet Google will come from within the company itself.
Worth a Look: Colin Ehren, Scotland Yard SO-11 Retired, Offering Internet Investigative Tradecraft Training and More….
Advanced Cyber/IO, Ethics, Law Enforcement
Internet Investigation Tradecraft
A comprehensive 3 Day Workshop designed to give delegates the skills and knowledge required to perform an Internet Investigation or Intelligence Operation
The ability to identify and retrieve relevant and timely information, intelligence or evidence from the Internet and Open Sources has become a routine necessity for Investigators. However, the structure and size of the Internet presents many challenges for Researchers, Analysts and Investigators. A lack of understanding about the nature and workings of the Internet can mean intelligence or evidence opportunities being lost, or investigations compromised. This workshop examines those challenges and builds a framework skill set to enhance Investigations and Intelligence Operations.
This course includes:
Marcus Aurelius: Army Heavy Drop Failures
Ineptitude, Military
Watch three (3) Army High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (“Humvees”) freefall into the Drop Zone after separating from their airdrop platforms following parachute canopy deployments during a 173d Airborne Brigade exercise at Hohenfels, Federal Republic of Germany on/about 11 April 2016.
Open Facebook Video (2 Minutes)
Investigation(s) reportedly underway, perhaps concentrating on identifying who captured the embarrassing video.
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Steven Aftergood: CRS on Cross-Cutting Intelligence Issues
Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence
CROSS-CUTTING INTELLIGENCE ISSUES, AND MORE FROM CRS
A new report from the Congressional Research Service raises the possibility that polygraph testing of intelligence employees could be phased out in favor of “continuous evaluation” (CE), i.e. the automated monitoring of financial, criminal and other databases.
The notion was suggested in a CRS overview of selected intelligence policy issues, including budget management, the quality of analysis, big data, workforce diversity, global coverage, and transparency. The new CRS report, written by Anne Daugherty Miles, does not make recommendations, but instead presents a series of questions for congressional consideration, such as:
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