Mongoose: ISIS Intelligence Manipulated?

Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military
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Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating allegations that military officials have skewed intelligence assessments about the United States-led campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State to provide a more optimistic account of progress, according to several officials familiar with the inquiry.

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JZ Liszkiewicz: True Cost Accounting for Food — Survey with Links

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
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There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food

Taking these costs into account is essential; the economic cost of global environmental degradation from industry is estimated at US$2 to US$5 trillion per year. TCA has the potential to make industrial food production seem unreasonably harmful and expensive and make sustainable food production seem not only necessary, but affordable.

Mongoose: VICE – Spy Agencies are Like Old Porn

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics
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Aging porn stars….too funny.

Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That's Changing

By Jennifer Peters at VICE.com

EXTRACT

The traditional intelligence agencies are a lot like the old-school porn industry: they're still trying to make and sell porn like it's 1979, even though a lot of what they're selling is just hanging out online, free for anyone to download at their leisure. To stay relevant, they need to stop wasting money on producing material they or their customers can get for free and develop new ways to find, collect, and curate that sexy, sexy free intelligence information.

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Robert Steele's complete answers (13 pages) below the fold.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Backfeed, Blockchain, Distributed Everything

03 Economy, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Economics/True Cost
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The vision is one where we can do, with direct collaboration, much of what corporations and governments do today, and we can do it better.

Backfeed wants to decentralize the Internet and help you earn what you deserve

The blockchain makes the local to global egalitarian economy possible.

Berto Jongman: World of Walls — 65 Countries with Border Fences

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berto smallWorld of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four times as many as when the Berlin Wall was toppled – as governments try to hold back the tide of migrants

  • Security fears and a widespread refusal to help refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building around the world
  • A third of the world's countries have completed or are building barriers – compared to 16 at the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • They include Israel's ‘apartheid wall', India's 2,500-mile fence around Bangladesh and Morocco's huge sand ‘berm'
  • Experts are dismissive, saying: ‘Their main function is theatre. They provide the sense of security, not real security'