Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman
Graphic: US Intelligence Budget Visualized — All Collection and Overhead, Almost No Processing and Analysis
Balance, Capabilities-Force Structure, CorruptionGraphic: Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) Logo
#OSE Open Source Everything
Expanding logo with list and prior graphics below the fold.
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Jan H. Kalvik: Introducing Robert David Steele to the Norwegian Defence & Intelligence Communities
Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Information Operations (IO), Key Players, Liberation Technology, NATO Civ-Mil Ctr, Officers Call, Policies, Threats, United Nations & NGOs
Defence and intelligence Norway
Introducing Robert David Steele
We are happy to introduce Robert David Steele as a new contributor to Defence and Intelligence.
Original post in Norway — safety copy below the fold.
Sepp Hasslberger: Nigerian Public Refuses Monsanto GMO Crops — We Predict ISIS Will Begin Targeting Monsanto
01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Africans push back against Monsanto's modified proprietary seeds
5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsantoās Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn
One-hundred organizations representing more than 5 million Nigerians, including farmers, faith-based organisations, civil society groups, students and local community groups, have submitted a joint objectionĀ to the countryās National Biosafety Management Agency (NABMA) expressing serious concerns about human health and environmental risks of genetically altered crops.
Stephen E. Arnold: Google Map Error Leads Stupid Human to Demolish Wrong House
IO Impotency
A Google Maps: Accuracy Is Relative
I read āDemolition Company Says a Google Maps Error Led Them to Tear Down the Wrong House.ā Pesky humans. Googleās autonomous automobiles do not have accidents. When those accidents occur, a human is at fault. Bus drivers, grrrr.
The write up suggests that a Google Map caused a human to instruct demolition workers to level a house at 7601 Cousteau Drive. The human allegedly pointed a finger at Google Maps, a geospatial system which has some big fans in various governmental outfits.,
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Thomas Leo Briggs: CIA Subpar Spies Deja Vu
Government, Ineptitude
In relation to Bryan Dean Wright: CIAās Problem ā Subpar Spies I find it interesting to read what Bryan Dean Wright has written about the CIA and its recruitment of A and B students, especially since I published something very much like that in 2009 in the final chapter of my book, Cash on Delivery: CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos.Ā The final chapter contains what I called Briggsā Axiom, a theory I often described to colleagues in the 1980s and 1990s. Ā Mr. Wright and I are in agreement.
Mr. Wright writes:
“The answer: Ā āWell, think of the students that you knew in school. WeĀ canāt retain the āAā or āBā studentsā¦ they eventually quit inĀ frustration because of too many bad managers and too much bureaucracy.Ā Soā¦ we look for the āCā students now.ā
The CIA had started hiring average.
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Yoda: All Female Arab Citizen News
Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of Peace, Media
These women in Turkey saw the need for a different kind of news, despite the danger
Founded four years ago, Jinha is an all-female, multilingual news agency spread across Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Its coverage is proving increasingly important in a region wracked by conflict and hardly notable for gender equality. Much of the focus is on women and children.
