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Uri Bar-Joseph: Conscious Intelligence Failure

Ethics, Government
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Uri Bar-Joseph

PDF (28 Pages): 2009 Intelligence Failure by Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack Levy

The literature generally traces major intelligence failures to an ambiguous threat environment compounded by the adversary’s strategic deception, to collective mindsets and individual cognitive biases, and to familiar organizational pathologies. This study aimed to shed more light on the neglected subject of the role of conscious action in the study of intelligence failure, with a primary emphasis on “intelligence to please,” organizational restructuring, and insubordination motivated by a we-know-best attitude.

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Patrick Meier: Digital Jedis, Micro-Mappers, UN, Typhoon Ruby

Crowd-Sourcing, Data, Geospatial
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Patrick Meier

Calling All Digital Jedis: Support UN Response to Super Typhoon Ruby!

The United Nations has officially activated the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) in response to Typhoon Ruby. The DHN serves as the official interface between formal humanitarian organizations and digital volunteer groups from all around the world. These digital volunteers—also known as Digital Jedis— provide humanitarian organizations like the UN and the Red Cross with the “surge” capacity they need to make sense of the “Big Data” that gets generated during disasters. This “Big Data” includes large volumes of social media reports and satellite imagery, for example. And there is a lot of this data being generated right now as a result of Super Typhoon Ruby. To make sense of this flash flood of information, Digital Jedis use crowdsourcing platforms like MicroMappers, which was developed in partnership with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).  Read more.

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Owl: All Young Men Will Join ISIS-Like Elements — No Use for Young Men in the USA, a Prescription for Violent Revolution

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Who? Who?
Who? Who?

What Will the Young Men Do?

Author on peak oil James William Kunstler answers this question from the context of social, cultural and environmental collapse the 1% of the 1% are strenuously engineering to bring about. This article shows his courage in taking on a theme that all mainstream media and punditry completely ignore: what will specifically young men do, especially those in flyover and rural areas, when they all finally figure out the economic game is utterly rigged against them. His prediction, which I find compelling, does not paint a pretty picture:

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Berto Jongman: The Internet is Less Free

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency
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Berto Jongman

The internet is less free than last year.

The internet is getting less free year by year with governments passing more laws to restrict online speech and increase monitoring of users.

That's according to New York-based Freedom House which on Friday published its fifth annual study of internet freedom around the globe.

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Which is the most free country? Iceland, apparently, with a satisfying 6 points, followed by Estonia (which this week announced it would offer e-citizenship) with 8 points. Canada comes next with 15, then Australia and Germany are tied with 17 points a piece. And as for the Home of Freedom™? The United States comes sixth with 19 points.

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John Pilger: Propaganda Has Buried Journalism

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Media
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John Pilger

Propaganda Has Triumphed over Journalism, and the Consequences Are Enormous

We need a press that teaches the young to be agents of people, not power.

EXTRACT

The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an “invisible government”. It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.

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Robert Steele: Autonomous Internet Road Map

Advanced Cyber/IO
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Robert Steele

In the aftermath of my two earlier posts, Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Data Revolution and 2014 Robert Steele: Appraisal of Analytic Foundations – Email Provided, Feedback Solicited – UPDATED — and my UN Background Paper, Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support) Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything, I have been delighted to find that conversations creating choices are advancing on multiple fronts, and there is a convergence occurring that may crest in Brazil in July 2015 at their Free Software event.

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