Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2018 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

0Shares

Huh?

Guardian: Intelligence chair: NSA leaker Edward Snowden may have had Russian help

Last year, in an interview with the New York Times, Snowden said he did not take any of the documents he obtained to Russia, “because it wouldn’t serve the public interest”. Snowden said there was “zero-percent chance” that Russia had received any documents and that he had handed all his NSA data to journalists from media outlets including the Guardian, before leaving Hong Kong. “What would be the unique value of personally carrying another copy of the materials onward?” he said.

New York Times: Congressional Leaders Suggest Earlier Snowden Link to Russia

A senior F.B.I. official said on Sunday that it was still the bureau’s conclusion that Mr. Snowden acted alone.

Continue reading “Mini-Me: Snowden as Russian Agent? Snowden as Joint Chinese-Russian Project?”

2014/01/202014/01/20

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.7

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

0Shares

BOOK: The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism

CHINA: Agricultural & commercial espionage within the USA

Phi Beta Iota: Nothing new — Singapore does it better — they attract and treat well those ready for best in class management & facilities.

CITIES: New Model for International Governance (VIDEO)

CIVIL SOCIETY: Citizens as Civic Innovators

CORRUPTION: Greece Arrests Two More in Ongoing German Bribery Case Related to Arms Deals

CORRUPTION: Pakistani counter-terrorism funds used for gifts, expenses, phones, flowers

CYBER: Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

CYBER: In-Q-Tel Invests in FireEye

CYBER: Light Table – Out in the Open: These Hackers Want to Give You Coding Superpowers

CYBER: Russia 17 Year Old BlackPOS Malware Author – More Details

CYBER: South Korea hacked for 20 million credit cards

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.7”

2014/01/20

John Steiner: Working Families Party – 25 Years of Very Hard Work About to See Positive Effect?

Cultural Intelligence

0Shares

Thanks to: Billy Wimsatt

I found myself really moved reading this long-form piece on Dan Cantor and the roots and growth of the Working Families Party. Although I love WFP, consider Dan a friend, and have heard him rant often and at length about the WFP's strategy, I didn't know half the stuff in this article. It's a good read.

http://prospect.org/article/dan-cantors-machine

The most important part to me is that it took 23 years of diligent, disciplined and incredibly boring and unsexy work to build the WFP to where it is now a powerhouse in a couple of states, and poised to make a real impact in a bunch of other states and nationally… (and make millions of people's lives and the planet a little better and a little less burnt up).

The thing about truly transformational long-term plans (whether the civil rights movement or LGBT equality or building a progressive electoral machine or stopping prisons or saving our climate) is that the first 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 years usually SUCK. You feel like you're losing and you're getting nowhere and no one takes you seriously and you're always broke and no one cares. And then you win.

Continue reading “John Steiner: Working Families Party – 25 Years of Very Hard Work About to See Positive Effect?”

2014/01/20

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Application Perspectives For 2014

IO Impotency, IO Tools

0Shares

Search Application Perspectives For 2014

With 2014 well under way, search experts are trying to predict what will happen for enterprise search. Search Appliance World has an article that takes a look on enterprise search in the past and future called, “The New Search Appliance Landscape: Reflections And Predictions With MaxxCAT.” Basic search commands that come in out-of-the-box system are old school and do not provide the robust solution enterprise systems need.

Search appliances became enterprise users’ favorite toys and everyone had to have the Google Mini Search Appliance, but those days are gone. Other search developers, such as MaxxCat, stepped up to the plate.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Search Application Perspectives For 2014”

2014/01/20

4th Media: US Navy Bottoms Up

Ethics, Military

0Shares

“US Naval Might is WANING,” REALLY?

On January 3 Rear Admiral Viktor Bursuk, a deputy commander of the Russian navy who oversees weapons procurement, said Russia’s Navy is expected to receive 40 new warships and auxiliary vessels in 2014.

In addition to surface ships of various classes, the Navy will also commission the third Borey-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, the Vladimir Monomakh, and a Varshavyanka-class diesel electric submarine.

Continue reading “4th Media: US Navy Bottoms Up”

2014/01/20

SchwartzReport: Banks Launder Billions for Cartels but No Accounts for Legal Marijuana Vendors

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy

0Shares

You have probably noticed in stories about Colorado that the newly legal Marijuana business is run on a cash only basis because banks will not provide banking services. And you may remember the piece I ran the other day about how the government secretly was in league with one of the major Mexican drug cartels. Th! at led me to wonder whether the banks also had a secret deal. And, once again, a little digging turned up evidence that this was the case.

This makes the hypocrisy of the entire War on Drugs even more blatant and its inherent racism even more evident. Nothing about the War on Drugs is what it appears, except the destruction of hundreds of thousands of families and the endless incarceration of Black and Brown kids.

Big Banks Launder Hundreds of Billions of Illegal Drug Cartel Money … But Refuse to Provide Services for Legal Marijuana
WashingtonBlog

Phi Beta Iota: The banks are following federal guidelines designed to screw the street-level merchants while ignoring the high crimes of the major banks doing the billion dollar money-laundering.

2014/01/19

Event: 1-4 July 14 Madrid International Mediation and Crisis Management

Uncategorized

0Shares

We will be bringing together some of the greatest visionaries and forward thinking mediation experts from across the globe including top graduate institutions, international organizations, grassroots peace movements, lawyers and legal representatives as well as NGO’s and government representatives.

Data: July 1st – 4th, 2014 (+ June 30th)

Venue: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Patronage: World Mediation Organization

Executive Body: Mediation International

This Summit is exclusively designed to gather outstanding professional competencies, to share with and to communicate appropriate knowledge to the audience. The topic of this annual event is: ‘Dealing with Conflicts of International Interest'. Attendees will receive a proper certificate of attendance and further education by naming the individual year of participation. The summit contains a structure of 50 % interactive trainings, and 50 % of panel discussions and lectures. Basic information right here …