Chuck Spinney & Philip Giraldi: CIA Drones for Corrupt Regimes

Note that in addition to propping up Quisling centers at expense of the tribal periphery, we  will be fanning the fires of the sectarian warfare and killing gobs of innocents with more signature strikes (note dependency on “technical collection”). Drones for “Regime Protection” The CIA’s insurance plan for Karzai and Maliki—and what it means for …

Berto Jongman: Global Spying on Social Media and Mobile Phones

This Powerful Spy Software Is Being Abused By Governments Around The World Michael Kelley Business Insider | May 2, 2013 A new report presents overwhelming evidence that sophisticated spying software is being abused by governments around the world. The findings by The Citizen Lab, a digital research laboratory at the University of Toronto, detail how …

Berto Jongman: Computational Intelligence (aka Artificial Intelligence and/or Intelligent Systems)

2013  Computational Intelligence: A Methodological Introduction 2012 Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: Trends and Applications (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering) 2012 Computational Intelligence and Its Applications: Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Techniques 2012 Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security (Studies in Computational Intelligence) 2012 Modern Advances in …

Berto Jongman: Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence

Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence We have just finished a paper entitled ‘Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence’ for Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Global Security. For those interested below is the abstract: The emergence of social media has provided the public with an effective and irrepressible real-time mechanism to …

Jean Lievins: 10 Ideas Driving The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship

Ideas Driving The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship Future of Social via Fastcompany 1. It’s about changing the system, stupid. 2. Change is accelerating. 3. To solve our problems we need more problem solvers. 4. It starts with young people. 5. Scale through collaboration. 6. Technology is driving creative disruption. 7. Power is moving from the …

Review (Guest): Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age

Manuel Castells Book Description This book is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, …