Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back British Foreign Fighters in Syria Democratization of Big Data Ethical Farming Ill-Equipped IT Managers Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Iraq Death Toll Based on Intelligence Lie(s) Modern Honey Traps: BBC Documentary Turkey blows Israel’s cover for Iranian spy ring

Chuck Spinney: How Contemporary War “Reporting” Messes Up Your OODA Loops

The attached article is a very important and informative essay.  Patrick Cockurn describes how the media echo chamber warps the Orientation* of the public, as well as that of a government, to unfolding events in the so-called global war on terror that triggered by 9-11 and the continuously metastasizing instabilities the GWOT is unleashing.  I regard …

Review: Pakistan on the Brink–The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

Ahmed Rashid REF A — 12 Years of Lessons Learned in Time for 2014, October 13, 2013 This is an extraordinary book that required a great deal of time, not in the reading, but in the reflection. This will be a longer review than usual, even for me, because this book contains all of the …

Chuck Spinney: American Exceptionalism as Cover Theme for Elite Looting…

American Exceptionalism is exceptionally lucrative for some morally unexceptional people and organizations. If you doubt this, read the attached report, which can be thought of as a contemporary commentary on America’s political-economic culture. To bad for them Putin intervened to place a (temporary?) roadblock across their march to war. (The report and a summary can …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.1

Al Qaeda Strategy in Syria Chile and UFOs CIA Staffing Levels — More People Doing Less Good Coalition to Safeguard Privacy (Canada) Computer Security Practices 101 Consumption the Ultimate Bubble Criminalizing Dissent (Globally)