Marcus Aurelius: CIA Clandestine to Be Run by Woman in Charge of Rendtion & Torture Site?

What BS.  Officer almost certainly supported policies of Administration in office at time of actions. Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2013, Pg. 12 Moving Up The CIA Ladder Promoting an official who ran an overseas ‘black site’ is an outrageous idea. CIA Director John Brennan is reportedly considering promoting an official who ran an overseas …

SchwartzReport: Environmental & Food Intelligence CIA Will Never Compute

More evidence of the degradation of the marine environment. In 20 years natural seafood may be a memory. Acidic Ocean Hits Pacific Northwest ERIC NIILER – Chemical & Engineering News Yet more evidence of environmental degradation. We simply cannot seem to achieve the political will to save the world in which we live, and on …

Cory A. Booker of Newark: Politician From and For the Future? Data-Driven, Interactive, Separating from Party Dogma?

A Politician From the Future Anand Giridharadas New York Times, 22 March 2013 Cory A. Booker is hoping to be the next U.S. senator from New Jersey. But the constituency he seems keenest to represent is the future itself. Perhaps more than any prominent American politician, Mr. Booker — the 43-year-old Democrat and mayor of …

David Isenberg: GWOT Has Shredded CIA’s Focus and Utility – Plus Renaissance References

Intelligence WOT distorting focus, resource allocation of U.S. intelligence community: experts The U.S. Intelligence Advisory Board, a panel of fourteen highly regarded and experienced experts, many of whom past holder of high-level national security positions, has submitted a secret report to President Obama in which they say that the intense, 12-year focus of the intelligence …

CIA’s CTO Gus Hunt On Big Data: We ‘Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever’ — And a Few Things Most CTOs Do Not Compute

CIA’s Gus Hunt On Big Data: We ‘Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever’ NEW YORK — The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. VIDEO 28:30 Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO …

Penguin: The CIA About To Sign $600 Million Deal With Amazon — Six Years After Robert Steele Proposed Amazon as the Hub for (an Open) World Brain

Have no idea what this means: The CIA Is About To Sign A Game-Changing $600 Million Deal With Amazon The CIA is on the verge of signing a cloud computing contract with Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years, reports Frank Konkel at Federal Computer Week. If the details about this deal are true, it …

Anthony Judge: Psychosocial Implication in Gamma Animation Epimemetics for a Brave New World

Psychosocial Implication in Gamma Animation Epimemetics for a Brave New World Introduction Current genetic concerns as a metaphor for current memetic realities Divisive caricatures of complex psychosocial processes Fourfold generic visual pattern of psychosocial dynamics Reframing the scope for creative gamma animation Genetic patterns as an indicative template for memetic patterns Requisite confusion to engender …