The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
IMF attack goal said to be network ‘insider presence’ ‘It was a targeted attack,’ says expert who once worked for organization Reuters, 11 June 2011 Phi Beta Iota: This is interesting on two levels. First, all instruments of Empire can expect to be attacked; without any central impetus, we anticipate a global cyber-intelligence and penetration …
Unbelievable–either these guys have no clue what happened in the past, or they’re all going senile and repeating history. This is 1992 all over again–remember the LIC Intelligence Working Group that never was? DefenseAlert DOD Advisory Panel Calls For Creation Of National Intel Manager For COIN Ops Posted on InsideDefense.com: May 20, 2011 A new …
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Although there are important elements I disagree with — in some cases strenuously — US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor (Ret.) has written an important piece on the fundamental changes and massive budget reductions that are needed to improve America’s ability to survive into the future. Macgregor gets the three essentials right, I believe: 1) the …
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Briefing (28 Slides) Version 3.2 (Notes As Delivered) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Starting Point 2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings Below the Line: Unclassified Impressions & Questions, Three Books on Truth, Past OSINT and IO References with Emphasis on Multinational Sharing and Sense-Making
The globalisation of revolution Taral Barlaawi Al Jazeera, 21 March 2011 Revolutions are caused by human agency; not telecommunications technologies, scholar argues. To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak. Via its technologies, the West …
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Volunteers Behind Libya Crisis Map: A True Story Patrick Meier, iRevolutiion, 8 March 2011 My colleague Clay Shirky called it “Cognitive Surplus” in his recent book. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams refer to it as “MacroWikinomics” in theirs. What is cognitive surplus? The trillion hours of free time enjoyed by the world’s educated population every …
This is a classic, and it bears mention that the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) revolution began in the US military. Here is the human in the loop essence that no computer can create. USDI and D/DIA have chosen to ignore their responsibility for OSINT despite General Tony Zinni’s clear cut statement that all that they …
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