Berto Jongman: Sandy Hook Reprise — What? + Plus Lack of Truth in USA RECAP

Sorcha Faal is a known fabricator with a gift for identifying legitimate sources worth reading on their own. Obama Death Squads Kill Top Gun Activists As New Massacre Fears Rise EXTRACT Unfortunately for the Obama regime, this report says, and the reason for another “tragic event” needing to happen, is that the “official story” about …

Marcus Aurelius: CIA’s Double Standard Exploitation of Secrecy — Use It to Hide Official Attrocities, While Screwing Iconoclasts + RECAP

Secret Double Standard By Ted Gup New York Times, January 9, 2013 Cambridge, Mass. — IN the last week, the American public has been reminded of the Central Intelligence Agency’s contradictory attitude toward secrecy. In a critique of “Zero Dark Thirty,” published last Thursday in The Washington Post, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., …

Patrick Meier: UN, Social Media, HUMINT, and Geospatial Decision-Support –a REAL Revolution in Intelligence Affairs

How the UN Used Social Media in Response to Typhoon Pablo Our mission as digital humanitarians was to deliver a detailed dataset of pictures and videos (posted on Twitter) which depicted the damage and flooding following the Typhoon. An overview of this digital response is available here. The task of our United Nations colleagues at the Office of the …

Chuck Spinney: End Time of Tribulation for Israel, the Fake State

With the exception of the problematic reference Iron Dome missile defense system (notwithstanding all the hype, school is still out on its performance, IMO), the attached opinion piece is an excellent summary of the grand strategic ramifications of the recent dustup in Gaza. CS Why Israel Didn’t Win Adam Shatz, London Review of Books, Vol. …

Practical Reflections on United Nations Intelligence + UN RECAP

Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT:  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …

Owl: $20 Table Storms the World — Four Million Back Ordered

How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers, educate billions and transform computing as we know it “This is going to be revolutionary for the developing world” On Sunday Nov. 11, the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, will have unveiled the seven-inch Aakash 2 tablet computer Tuli’s company is selling to the government …