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2014/12/102014/12/10

Steven Aftergood: CIA Torture Report – Oversight, But No Remedies Yet — With Strong PBI Comment

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 11 Society, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

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CIA Torture Report: Oversight, But No Remedies Yet

The release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program is, among other things, an epic act of record preservation. Numerous CIA records that might not have been disclosed for decades, or ever, were rescued from oblivion by the Senate report and are now indelibly cited and quoted, even if many of them are not yet released in full. That’s not a small thing, since the history of the CIA interrogation program was not a story that the Agency was motivated or equipped to tell. Read more.

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2014/12/10

Sepp Hasslberger: Sun, Not Carbon, Determines Climate Change

03 Environmental Degradation

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Whenever talk comes to global warming – or climate change as they call it now, we go off into an irrational fear of CO2 as the cause and agent of change. – Evidence is now accumulating that it's the sun's activity, not our emission of CO2 that causes such changes.

New paper finds strong evidence the Sun has controlled climate over the past 11,000 years, not CO2

The authors find temperature changes lag solar activity changes by ~40 years, which is likely due to the huge heat capacity and inertia of the oceans.

2014/12/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Cisco, OpenSOC and Big Data

Access, Architecture, Data

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Cisco Relies on OpenSOC through GitHub When it Comes to Big Data

The article on Enterprise Networking Planet titled Cisco Goes Open-Source for Big Data Analytics discusses the change for Cisco with some high-ups in the company. Annie Ballew, Solutions Architect in the Cisco Security Business Group, mentions that OpenSOC is not actually a Security Information and Event Management system but rather should be considered “big data technology for security analytics.” OpenSOC is freely available through Github. The article states, Read More

2014/12/10

SchwartzReport: Australia Achieves Most Efficient Solar Panels — Total Conversion Within 15 Years?

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Here is the latest on the Solar Trend, and it is very good news. The price of non-carbon energy is dropping so quickly and so far, that will will soon be clear to anyone that whatever one's views on climate change, carbon energy is simply no longer competitive. A conversion generally thought to take 30 years, is compressing down to perhaps half that.

Australia develops world's most efficient solar panels

The new photovoltaic (PV) system created by University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers converts 40 percent of solar light into electrical energy, which is a 15 percent increase over regular panels.

2014/12/092014/12/09

Mongoose: CIA Directors = Torture As Treason

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

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Treason. From Tenet onwards. Any questions?

The 10 most disturbing revelations in the CIA torture report

10. The use of torture to extract information was ineffective.

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Torture @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/12/092014/12/09

Berto Jongman: Alex Jones on Censorship of Sandy Hook Truth Documentary Posted to YouTube

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, DHS, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

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Internet Censors Viral Sandy Hook Truth Documentary

Open communication of information and ideas necessary for the functioning of any free society

Last week, video hosting site Youtube repeatedly obliged requests to remove a documentary which laid out several inconsistencies, discrepancies and anomalies surrounding the Sandy Hook school shooting. Learn more.

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2014/12/092014/12/11

Review (Guest): The Accidental Admiral – A Sailor Takes Command at NATO

5 Star, Biography & Memoirs, Military & Pentagon Power, Philosophy, Politics, Security (Including Immigration), Stabilization & Reconstruction, Strategy

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James Stavridis

Essential Reading from the Finest Naval Officer of a Generation

ByMichael N. Pocalykoon November 3, 2014

Admiral James Stavridis is the finest naval officer of a generation and almost parenthetically a magnificently gifted writer. This memoir, his second, is an incredibly incisive book packed with meaning, history, and introspection. Published just after his retirement from active duty and taking the helm of The Fletcher School, THE ACCIDENTAL ADMIRAL is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the challenges and struggles of modern statecraft from a distinctly military vantage.

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