Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1739 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Why Clouds Give Me a Case of the Vapors

IEEE Computer, 1 November 2014

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In my personal life I build trusted relationships one tax-avoiding, jurisdiction-shopping multinational corporation at a time. Show me a company that engages in labor arbitraging and offshore production in third-world countries paying starvation wages3 and that avoids taxes through shadow companies in Ireland (Apple Operations International) so it can reap real profits in the US only to pay virtual taxes in invisible jurisdictions4—what The New York Times calls the “Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich”5—and I’ll show you a company that deserves my full faith and confidence. Passwords? Crypto keys? Security
questions? Not needed. Oh, corporate giants, have your digital way with me!

PDF (4 Pages): Hal on Cloud Insecurity 11-14

2014/11/022014/11/02

Pierre Levy: Information Economy Meta Language Update – Talk to “The Future of Text 2014”

Advanced Cyber/IO

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My Talk at “The Future of Text 2014″

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IEML is still at the stage of fundamental research but we now have an extensive dictionary – a set of paradigms – and some grammatical algorithmic rules that conform to the algebra. The result is a language where texts self-translate into natural language, manifest as semantic networks and compute collaboratively their relationships and differences. Any library of IEML texts then self-organizes into ecosystems of texts and data categorized in IEML will self-organize according to their semantic relationships and differences.

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2014/11/022016/03/26

Reflections on China & The Internet

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Reflections on China & The Internet

LinkedIn, 3 November 2014

It was my great privilege to be a co-founder with Winn Schwartau of the first Information Warfare Conference in the early 1990's. Winn, through his books and Congressional testimony did more than anyone else to warn us of both NSA's likekly malfeasance (see his 1980's book Terminal Compromise) and of the vulnerability of the Internet to melt-down if we did not address security at the code level.

It was also my privilege to serve on rotation to the CIA's Office of Information Technology where I led the effort to introduce advanced information technologies including artificial intelligence, from 1986-1988. When Bill Casey died this initiative died with him. We still do not have today the tri-fecta I called for back then: geospatial attributes for all data in all mediums and languages; open standards and embedded security to allow for the inter-operability of all information and communications technologies and related data; and finally — defined much more ably by Diane Webb and Dennis McCormick, eighteen integrated desktop analytic functionalities (look for CATALYST – Computer-Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science & Technology).

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2014/11/02

Anthony Judge: Global Resource Constraints — the Lifeboat Conversation

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

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Resource Insights from Plus or Minus 12 People on a Liferaft

Thought experiment to highlight global dilemmas in a comprehensible context

Introduction
Peeling away convention — as a prelude to survival cannibalism?
Cannibalism as metaphor: reinterpreting incorporation
Voices in the liferaft dialogue
Emergence of radical questions challenging conventional assumptions
Guidelines to group survival discourse from fact and fiction
References

2014/11/022014/11/02

Alessandro Politi: Global Outlook 2014

Commercial Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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PDF (121 Pages): CeMiSS Global Outlook 2014

The areas of interest monitored during year 2013 and synthesized here include • Latin America; • China; • India and Indian Ocean; • Middle East and North Africa (MENA); • Asia-Pacific; • South Eastern Europe and Turkey; • Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; • Sub-Saharan Africa; • Afghan Theatre; • European Defense initiatives; • NATO and transatlantic relations;

2014/11/022014/11/02

Yoda: Financial Times Loves Google — But Will This Love Keep Google Going?

IO Impotency

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FT interview with Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page

Even the search engine’s original mission is not big enough for what he now has in mind

Page estimates that only about 50 investors are chasing the real breakthrough technologies that have the potential to make a material difference to the lives of most people on earth. If there is something holding these big ideas back, it is not a shortage of money or even the barrier of insurmountable technical hurdles. When breakthroughs of the type he has in mind are pursued, it is “not really being driven by any fundamental technical advance. It’s just being driven by people working on it and being ambitious,” he says. Not enough institutions – particularly governments – are thinking expansively enough about these issues: “We’re probably underinvested as a world in that.”

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2014/11/022014/11/02

SchwartzReport: House of Saud Dead by 2016?

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

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Saudi Arabia is without question the weirdest country I have ever visited. It gave me the creeps from the moment I set foot on the ground, and was handed a copy of the Protocols of Zion a virulently anti-semitic 19th century propaganda screed. Going to an opulent mall that would have been at home in Beverly Hills and seeing groups of women looking like floating black bags — indeed that was how my guide referred to them, “black bags” — was unnerving, and they appeared in my dreams for months afterwards. Enormous wealth grossly inequitably distributed wedded to fanatical absolutist Medieval theology has produced something unlike any other country on Earth. Recently I have been seeing more and more articles about the growing instability in the country, which does not surprise me, but which could spell massive upheaval in the region. The closest analogy I can think of is the fall of the Shah in Iran. Based on what I am reading it would not surprise me if the House of Saud fell in 2015-2016. Here is an example of what I have been reading.

Al Saud’s Repressive Monarchy Creates Traction For Saudi Revolution

Though Saudi Arabia hasn’t yet fallen victim to the Arab Spring, it may only be a matter of time, especially as the parallels between Iran under the Shah and present-day Saudi Arabia become alarmingly more apparent.

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