Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1519 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Political decision-making by elected representatives is far removed from those who go to the election booth once every four or five years. Liquid democracy uses the internet to reduce the distance between citizens and decision makers…

Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician

Liquid Democracy is one of the boldest contemporary innovations in democratic decision-making. The idea uses web technology that allows users to interact in new ways.

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2015/10/032015/10/02

Neal Rauhauser: Russian Information Operations The Menace of Unreality – How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money

06 Russia, Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Deeds of War

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The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlim Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money covers the Kremlin's methods and motives as they spread the influence modern Russia, rightly called a mafia state. The concept of “Operations Psychological”, as defined by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, plays a prominent role in these efforts. The impatient will want to skip to the Recommendations section on page 40; the simple, clear prescriptions may motivate paging back to understand more of the thinking behind them. Arab Spring has come and gone, ISIS is what it is, and the true challenge for the west in the 21st century is this next evolution of a network threat, an area in which the Russians vastly outperform the U.S.

2015/10/032015/10/02

Berto Jongman: US-Sponsored Genocide — One Source of Illegal Refugees

04 Indonesia, 06 Genocide, IO Deeds of War

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It's Been 50 Years Since the Biggest US-Backed Genocide You've Never Heard Of

As many as 1 million people were killed by Indonesia's Cold War regime—and we still don't know the full story of our government's involvement.

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2015/10/022015/10/01

Berto Jongman: Pentagon Weapons Vulnerable to Open Internet Connections for Performance Monitoring

IO Impotency

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Pentagon's Online Habits Render US Weapons Info Highly Vulnerable

The Pentagon's longstanding practice of connecting networks, equipment, and weapons to the open Internet has unintentionally created major vulnerabilities throughout the Defense Department.

The strategy was supposed to facilitate the collection of performance data to help design new weapons and monitor equipment remotely, among other benefits. Instead, it has jeopardized Pentagon networks and much of what the defense industry has developed over several decades.

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2015/10/022015/10/01

Sepp Hasslberger: Electrostatic Charges Reverse Monsanto Genetic Engineering — But Congress Still Immunizing Monsanto from Legal Redress

01 Agriculture

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It is apparently possible to reverse genetic modifications – by simply exposing seeds to a static electric field for some time before germination and growth. The recently added genetic traits will vanish, giving way to a plant or animal close to its origins…

Electrostatic Zapping of Seeds & Embroyos

The “Primeval Code” is restored, overcoming genetic engineering.

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2015/10/022015/10/01

Stephen E. Arnold: Web Crawling ToolKit

IO Tools

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Short Honk: Crawl the Web at Scale

Short honk: I read “Aduana: Link Analysis to Crawl the Web at Scale.” The write up explains an open source project which can copy content “dispersed all over the Web.” Keep in mind that the approach focuses primarily on text. Aduana is a special back end for the developer’s tool for speeding up crawls which is built on top of a data management system. Read more.

Direct to Tool: Scrapinghub Platform

2015/10/012015/10/01

Chuck Spinney: Col Pat Lang Provides Strategy on Syria — For Adults with Intelligence and Integrity…

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

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Below at the close of this excellent opinion piece by Pat Lang is sensible prescription for shaping a schwerpunkt in so-called Global War on Terror or GWOT. Lang cuts thru the Gordian Knot of inwardly focused contradictions that are overloading and paralyzing America’s grand strategy* in the Syrian Civil War and turning our country into a international laughing stock on steroids.

Pat Lang's conclusion brought forward:

What to do?- I was asked today to state what I think should be done:

* Accept the truth that we destroyed the Iraqi state and from that act of vandalism all present chaos in that country derives.

* Don't do it again in Syria.

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