Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1679 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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These Are the Hottest New Open Source Projects Right Now

Klint Finley, WIRED, 28 January 2015

Dubbed the Black Duck Rookies of the Year, the ranking isn’t a perfect measure of the project popularity, but it can be can tell us a bit about where the world of open source is going. And that’s no small thing. So much of the internet–and the modern business world—now runs on open source software, software that’s freely shared with the world at large. . . . The rise of CockroachDB “suggests a sizable unmet need in the database space,” says founder Spencer Kimball. And so many other projects on the Black Duck list suggest similar holes in the market. But those holes are being filled. Read full article.

2015/01/29

SchwartzReport: Giroux on Zombie USA

Cultural Intelligence

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Henry Giroux has written an important essay on America's state of consciousness. His thinking closely parallels my own, as you will recognize from reading SR. The only thing that is going to stop what is happening is the choices of we ourselves. We face a crisis of beingness, individual and collective.

Henry A. Giroux | The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy

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Yoda: End of Servers III – BitTorrent Maelstrom — Open Power Beginning to Rock!

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics

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BitTorrent Tests Websites Hosted in the Crowd, Not the Cloud

An experimental browser shows how peer-to-peer technology can serve up entire websites, not just individual files.

An experimental new Web browser makes it possible for sites to be hosted not on a company’s servers but, instead, by a shifting crowd of individuals on their personal computers. That turns the usual approach to serving up websites on its head and could provide a more effective and reliable way to disseminate bulky media files or distribute vital information in the event of natural disaster.

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Michael Flynn: Obama Delusional, CIA Unprofessional [PBI: and USDI a Waste]

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

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Former Defense Intel Chief Blasts Obama

Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the Obama administration’s approach to the War on Terror in a hard-hitting speech to a meeting of intelligence professionals. “The dangers to the U.S. do not arise from the arrogance of American power, but from unpreparedness or an excessive unwillingness to fight when fighting is necessary,” Flynn said, in an unsparing critique first reported by the Daily Beast.

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Anthony Judge: Eliciting “Us versus Them” Insights from US Covert Operations Against Global Governance

Cultural Intelligence

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Eliciting Insight from Covert Operations by US

Understanding global governance otherwise in response to THEM

Introduction
US: Universal Synthesizer or Universal Sympathizer?
THEM: Terrifying Hypothetical External Mentalities?
THEM as the “borgification” of US
Covert operations by US in response to THEM
Eliciting insight from covert “usification”
References

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Martin Petersen: Lessons Learned Doing Intelligence Analysis for Makers of US Foreign Policy

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Impotency

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What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers

Martin Petersen, Studies in Intelligence, 2011

PDF (8 Pages): Petersen-What I Learned-20Apr2011

Policymakers do not always see how we can help them.

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Review: The End of Intelligence – Espionage and State Power in the Information Age

3 Star, Intelligence (Government/Secret)

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David Tucker

3.0 out of 5 stars A poor thesis, rotten sources, with no quality control in the literature review, January 27, 2015

This is a hugely disappointing book. It reads like a graduate thesis badly overseen (with zero in the way of serious literature search). While the author has some experience in the foreign service (perhaps in the clandestine service) and as an action officer and minor manager in the Pentagon bureaucracy responsible for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, he knows little about intelligence in all its complexity, less about the information revolution, and nothing at all across 80% of the relevant literatures he fails to discover or cite.

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