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Would rather drown in rising tide of pornography

All is not well in the land of US spooks despite them having access to all the data on citizens that they can eat.

William Binney, creator of some of the computer code used by the National Security Agency to snoop on Internet traffic around the world, has warned that the agency knows too much.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the NSA can't understand the data it has because it has too much to do anything useful with it.

Binny said that the NSA's addiction to data had made it dysfunctional and the agency is drowning in useless data.

He described an agency where analysts are swamped with so much information that they can't do their jobs effectively, and the enormous stockpile is an irresistible temptation for misuse.

His warning mirrors concerns shown in the Snowden documents. An internal briefing document in 2012 about foreign mobile phone location tracking by the agency said the efforts were “outpacing our ability to ingest, process and store” data.

In March, some NSA analysts asked for permission to collect less data through a program called Muscular because the “relatively small intelligence value it contains does not justify the sheer volume of collection”.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: NSA as Poster Child for the Problem of Big Data”

2013/12/302013/12/30

Chuck Spinney: Benghazi & Domestic Politics

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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Below is a lengthy report on the Benghazi attack that just appeared in the New York Times.

The report makes it pretty clear how ideological preconceptions implicit in the Orientation guiding the OODA loops of US policy makers prevented them from making a realistic appreciation of the situation in Benghazi, as well as a larger appreciation of the more general ramifications of a decision to remove Qaddafi by force.

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2013/12/302013/12/30

Jean Lievens: Insurgent Anarchism – An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Cultural Intelligence

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Insurgent Anarchism: an idea whose time has come (Part I)

Nozomi Hayase

ROAR Magazine, 16 September 2013

In the fall of 2011, as the autumn leaves were turning color, America’s largest metropolitan city was about to grab the world’s attention. On September 17, the first occupiers descended onto lower Manhattan and marched on the stock exchange, eventually settling in Zuccotti Park. Wall Street, the center of capitalist wealth and power was now under siege. As the word ‘Occupy’ indicated, it was not a one day protest. They were there for the long haul.

From Occupy to Wikileaks, the anarchist spirit of leaderless resistance, decentralized decision-making and autonomous self-governance, is rising. Photo: Tess Scheflan/Activestills.org — From Occupy to Wikileaks, the anarchist spirit of leaderless resistance, decentralized decision-making and autonomous self-governance, is rising.
Photo: Tess Scheflan/Activestills.org

“The Occupy movement just lit a spark.” Noam Chomsky spoke of its historical significance as creating something that never existed before and bringing a marginalized discourse to the center. At Zuccotti Park, with a library and kitchen, a cooperative community arose with open spaces for sharing and mutual aid.

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2013/12/302014/04/24

Evan Ellis: China Pulls Back from Argentina

02 China, 02 Diplomacy, 03 Economy, 05 Energy, 08 Wild Cards

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I am writing to pass along to you a story from Argentina which, in addition to the story itself, says much about the nature of Chinese engagement in the region, including how the Chinese approach to pursuing business and political objectives in the region differs from that of the US.

For me, the story below illustrates well the nuances, contradictions and complexity of Chinese engagement in the region: here, it is not the Chinese who are behaving badly, but rather, their partners. The Chinese are powerfully exercising influence, yet using informal channels and indirect pressures, rather than public conditions and demands. The Chinese are both attempting to “save face” for their partner, and yet also indirectly show their ire when they themselves ‘lose face.” And finally, a reminder that the dynamics of the China-Latin America engagement is a story of PEOPLE, and not just countries and faceless companies.

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2013/12/302013/12/30

Owl: Chinese Take-Over of USA — with Power Grid False Flag Takedown Thrown In

Cultural Intelligence

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Both perhaps over-blown, but these weak signals suggest that deals may be in the works that are not in the best interests of the public.

The Coming Chinese Invasion of America

Many of my military sources tell me that a series of international “inland ports” will be created in conjunction with known mineral rich areas and control of these areas will be handed off to the Chinese. Further, the Chinese military will be stationed around these inland ports to ensure safety and security of the Chinese investment and its mining and geological personnel. This will be the foothold of their invasion force.

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`Military-Style' Raid on California Power Station Spooks US

“These were not amateurs taking potshots,” Mark Johnson, a former vice president for transmission operations at PG&E, said last month at a conference on grid security held in Philadelphia. “My personal view is that this was a dress rehearsal” for future attacks.

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2013/12/30

Jon Rappoport: Healthy School Food Ends Health & Behavioral Issues

01 Agriculture, 04 Education, 07 Health, 10 Security, 11 Society

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A Miracle in Wisonsin

I published this article in October of 2002. At the time, it was the most widely read piece I'd written and posted on my site. Its basics still hold up.

What I didn't mention at the time was the corrosive role school-food distributors and their allies on boards of education play in the health of children.

These are the people who operate a corrupt system and mandate the feeding of toxic and nutritionally empty junk to students across the country.

One school took another path:

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2013/12/302013/12/30

4th Media: We Do Not Make This Stuff Up!

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, Government, Military

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Syrian Rebels Get Arms and Advice Through Secret Command Centre in Amman

EXTRACT:

“The command centre has been good for us, it has helped a lot, but we’d like more commitment from them. They don’t really share intelligence information with us, they don’t give us enough weapons to do the job,” said an FSA commander.

“We all think they want to keep Assad stronger than us, they want to keep a balance – we get enough to keep going but not to win,” he said.

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“It gets very complicated, everyone lies to each other, everyone is trying to control everyone else,” said an FSA commander.