Eagle: We Know Where You Went — Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Door to Door Data Points

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence
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300 Million Talons…

Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance

An open-source exploration of the city's neighborhoods, nightlife, airport traffic, and more, through the lens of publicly available taxi and Uber data

These maps show every taxi pickup and drop off, respectively, in New York City from 2009–2015.

Ty Simpson: USG Acknowledgess Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells

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Ty Simpson

Government-Run Cancer Institute Quietly Acknowledges That Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells

The National Cancer Institute is an organization mandated by U.S. law to educate Americans about cancer and the latest research efforts. According to its website, NCI is touted as “the U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research.” And recently, it quietly admitted that cancer cells have been killed by cannabis in a lab setting.

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Nafeez Ahmed: NATO is Harbouring ISIS

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, IO Deeds of War
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Nafeez Ahmed

NATO is harbouring the Islamic State

Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks

Conspicuously missing from President Hollande’s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of the biggest elephant in the room: state-sponsorship.   …   Earlier this year, the Turkish daily Today’s Zaman reported that “more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports” had been given to ISIS.    …   According to other ISIS suspects facing trial in Turkey, the Turkish national military intelligence organization (MIT) had begun smuggling arms, including NATO weapons to jihadist groups in Syria as early as 2011.   …   By now, this implies that Turkey has facilitated over $1 billion worth of black market ISIS oil sales to date.

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Anthony Judge: Dying to Live, Living to Die, Lying to Live, and Living a Lie

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Anthony Judge

Dying to Live, Living to Die, Lying to Live, and Living a Lie

Whether or not the play on words is trivial, there is also a case for exploring the slogan by which American foreign policy might well be framed by critics, namely “Saving American Lies”. This too appears to be interpreted with the qualifier “at all costs” — irrespective of the deaths that might ensue, whatever form these might take. A notable preoccupation with preserving this illusion is acclaimed as vital to American national security.

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Paul Craig Robert: Paris a False Flag to Legalize US War on Syria and Bury Trump-Sanders — Is This Another Foreign Policy Coup?

07 Other Atrocities, IO Deeds of War
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Paul Craig Roberts

Washington Refines Its False Flag Operations — Paul Craig Roberts

The only benefactor of the Paris attack is the Western political establishment and Washington’s goal of unseating Assad in Syria. The Paris attack has removed the threat to the French, German, and British political establishments from the National Front, Pegida, and the UK Independence Party. The Paris attack has removed the threat to the US political establishment from Trump and Sanders. The Paris attack has advanced Washington’s goal of removing Assad from power. The answer to the Roman question, “cui bono,” is clear.

 

 

Chuck Spinney: Open Letter to Obama by Drone Operators Denounces Drone Assassination

07 Other Atrocities, Drones & UAVs
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Chuck Spinney

Obama's drone war a ‘recruitment tool' for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers

Four former service members – including three sensor operators – issue plea to rethink current airstrike strategy that has ‘fueled feelings of hatred’ toward US

Ed Pilkington in New York and Ewen MacAskill in London

Guardian, 18 November 2015

Phi Beta Iota: Closing down or transferring the drone program should have been John Brennan's first order of business when he assumed his position as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. That he did not do so is his epitaph.

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Drone Assassination @ Phi Beta Iota

Robert Parry: Tangled False US Narratives

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Robert Parry

Tangled Threads of US False Narratives

Exclusive: Official Washington’s many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores.

. . . .a counter-argument to the fake narratives is possible if some candidate seized on the principle of an informed electorate as vital to democracy.