Public Intelligence Blog – Page 1751 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Automatically Classifying Text Messages (SMS) for Disaster Response

Humanitarian organizations like the UN and Red Cross often face a deluge of social media data when disasters strike areas with a large digital footprint. This explains why my team and I have been working on AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response), a free and open source platform to automatically classify tweets in real-time. Given that the vast majority of the world’s population does not tweet, we’ve teamed up with UNICEF’s Innovation Team to extend our AIDR platform so users can also automatically classify streaming SMS.

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Analytics @ Phi Beta Iota

Big Data @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/10/212014/10/21

Berto Jongman: Scientists Allege Ebola Manufactured by Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD

02 Infectious Disease, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, DoD

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Ebola Manufactured by Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD?: Scientists Allege

Are bio weapons being tested on Africans. Reports have linked the Ebola virus outbreak to an attempt to reduce Africa’s population. Liberia happens to be the continents' fastest growing population.

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Tekmira / DoD Ebola Clinical Trial Summary Also Below in Full Text

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2014/10/21

David Brin: An Unstable World? NOT WORRIED — Starting with Russia…

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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An Unstable World? Part One: Russia

Some folks have lately asked why I seem so calm, when every week brings news of yet another brewing disaster, with the world apparently spinning into chaos. So much for Francis Fukayama's famous line – around 1990 – that the rapid and unstoppable spread of liberal democracy would soon bring an “end of history.”

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2014/10/21

Anthony Judge: Systemic Equivalences between Ebola, Alien Invasion and Dissidence – Strategic implications of seemingly disparate forms of terrorism

Cultural Intelligence

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Systemic Equivalences between Ebola, Alien Invasion and Dissidence

Strategic implications of seemingly disparate forms of terrorism

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2014/10/21

Jean Lievens: Nora McDevitt on Living in the 21st Century – The Sharing Economy, Peer to Peer, Climate Change, and The Last 5 Billion

Cultural Intelligence

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Living in the 21st Century: The Sharing Economy, Peer to Peer, Climate Change, and The Last 5 Billion

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This fast-moving, transformative, technological revolution will continue to unseat the old paradigm in ways that we have only begun to fathom. The old model of leadership enforces a top-down paradigm, and coined by Shepard Fairley as “Obey,” is crumbling. Unlike the industrial era, under this new model we create lateral networks. We are living at the dawn of a new era. While it will bring with it a unique set of problems, challenges and difficulties to overcome, it marks a shift into a new epoch in human evolution.

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Graphic: Epoch B Swarm Leadership

2014/10/21

Review (Guest): Pay Any Price – Greed, Power, and Endless War

5 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Banks, Fed, Money, & Concentrated Wealth, Budget Process & Politics, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Force Structure (Military), Impeachment & Treason, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Iraq, Justice (Failure, Reform), Military & Pentagon Power, Misinformation & Propaganda, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Public Administration, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Terrorism & Jihad, Threats (Emerging & Perennial), True Cost & Toxicity

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James Risen

Better Than His Last One – Imagine What He'll Write From Prison, October 14, 2014

By David Swanson

When New York Times report James Risen published his previous book, State of War, the Times ended its delay of over a year and published his article on warrantless spying rather than be scooped by the book. The Times claimed it hadn't wanted to influence the 2004 presidential election by informing the public of what the President was doing. But this week a Times editor said on 60 Minutes that the White House had warned him that a terrorist attack on the United States would be blamed on the Times if one followed publication — so it may be that the Times' claim of contempt for democracy was a cover story for fear and patriotism. The Times never did report various other important stories in Risen's book.

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2014/10/212014/10/21

Howard Rheingold: 12 Informaton Tools

IO Tools

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Again, this is from the productivity world, and infotention has an important core related to attention — not just tools, not just efficiency, but awareness and metacognition — but I know that at least a couple of these tools help me handle my info-flow (I use Slack and Skitch regularly)

12 Tech Tools Productivity Experts Can't Live Without

LIST ONLY: 1. Android Wear . 2. Post-It Plus . 3. Sunrise . 4. USKAPE . 5. Slack . 6. NOISLI . 7. Jamie's To Do . 8. Eternity Time Log . 9. Alarmed . 10. Timeful . 11. Paperkarma . 12. Skitch