NIGHTWATCH: Libyan Collaborators with USA Compromised – Embassy Breach, Captured Laptop(s) – Ambassador dies from smoke inhalation in an improperly designed “safe room”

US-Libya: Update: The British news outlet, The Independent, today published a detailed list of the extent of the security disaster in Benghazi, which goes beyond the tragic murders. According to The Independent, laptops were stolen that contain lists of Libyans who cooperate with the Americans, classified papers were taken and classified data was compromised. NightWatch …

Greg Palast: GOP Is Going to Steal 2012 Election — and No One Will Stop It or Complain

Greg Palast on How the GOP Is Planning to Steal the 2012 Election Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:32 By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview Greg Palast is back with a timely new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps.  In the book, which is illustrated by Ted Rall …

Steven Aftergood: Army Introduction to Open Source Intelligence – Comment by Robert Steele

AN ARMY INTRODUCTION TO OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE A new U.S. Army publication provides an introduction to open source intelligence, as understood and practiced by the Army. “Open-source intelligence is the intelligence discipline that pertains to intelligence produced from publicly available information that is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience …

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Mark Lombardi

Wikipedia Snap-Shot Mark Lombardi (March 23, 1951 – March 22, 2000) was an American Neo-Conceptualist and an abstract artist who specialized in drawings attempting to document financial and political frauds by power brokers, and in general “the uses and abuses of power. Lombardi called his diagrams Narrative Structures.. They are structurally similar to sociograms – …

Patrick Meier: Could Twitris+ Be Used for Disaster Response (and Other Apps?)

Could Twitris+ Be Used for Disaster Response? I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Hermant Purohit and colleagues who have been working on an interesting semantic social web application called Twitris+. A project of the the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis), Twitris+ uses “real-time monitoring and multi-faceted analysis of social signals to provide …

Michel Bauwens: P2P Mode of Production – An Indiano Manifesto

Published under the Public Domain, freely downloadable in HTML, epub or PDF, “The P2P Mode of Production: An Indiano Manifesto” is the first collective Indiano work translated into English. This document is a call to action, based on Las Indias’ analysis that the reduction of the optimal scale of production is the root of the …