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Stuart Umpleby: Role of Cybernetics in Intelligence — Extrapolation

Downloadable Document:  2011 AAAS Security Policy & Cybernetics Dr. Stuart Umpleby As I understand it, the fundamental problem with secret intelligence is too much self-reference and too little peer review.  Stated differently, any advice from a subordinate to a superior has two components — describing some observed system and wanting to please the boss.  Peer …

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Anthony Judge: Scrutinizing the Cardinals by Educational Disciplines

Social Science and Natural Science Disciplines of Catholic Cardinals Analysis of the educational background of those engaged in the selection of the new Pope Explanation The election of a successor to Pope Benedict XVI in March 2013 raises the question as to the range of “disciplines” which might be called upon (or valued) by the …

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John Holdren: Public Research Results to be Free Online

Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research By Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Thank you for your participation in the We the People platform. The Obama Administration agrees that citizens deserve easy access to the …

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Berto Jongman: Four Questions About Mumbai Attack US Government Will Not Answer

Pakistan’s Terror Connections Four Disturbing Questions About the Mumbai Terror Attack Analysis by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, Feb. 22, 2013, 8:46 a.m. The 35-year prison sentence imposed on David Coleman Headley, a terrorist scout and Pakistani spy convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has closed the U.S. chapter of a case with explosive international implications. But …

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Dolphin: Skull and Bones Welcomes Interrogation Facility and Medical Experiments on Immigrants at Yale — Been There, Done That…

An Interrogation Center at Yale? Proposed Pentagon Special Ops Training Facility Sparks Protests 43 minute video plus full transcript EXTRACT: Students and alumni at Yale University are organizing against a proposed campus center to train special operations forces in interview techniques. The center would be funded by a $1.8 million grant from the Pentagon and …

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Patrick Meier: Social Media as Passive Polling: Prospects for Development & Disaster Response

Social Media as Passive Polling: Prospects for Development & Disaster Response Posted on February 21, 2013 | 1 Comment My Harvard/MIT colleague Todd Mostak wrote his award-winning Master’s Thesis on ”Social Media as Passive Polling: Using Twitter and Online Forums to Map Islamism in Egypt.” For this research, Todd evaluated the “potential of Twitter as a source of time-stamped, geocoded …

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Berto Jongman: Catholic Church — Dead or Just Comatose? + Catholic / Pedophilia RECAP

Reading between the lines is most interesting. Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope By LAURIE GOODSTEIN New York Times, February 16, 2013 EXTRACT “What’s going to be very key in this conclave is the person, the personality,” Monsignor Figueiredo said. “Is he a man who can really speak to the hearts of people …

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