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NIGHTWATCH: Brazil Unravels — Is this an Opportunity for NATO?

Brazil: The largest anti-government demonstrations in 20 years, according to news analysts, have continued for five days in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and eight other cities. News reports said 65,000 people demonstrated in Sao Paulo and over 100,000 marched in Rio. Social networking enabled coordinated marches in Sao Paulo, Rio and Belo Horizonte. …

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Marcus Aurelius: UK Cuts Military, Lacks Ability to Reconfigure – Huge Opportunity for NATO NNEC

Is this the future of America in the world — racing pell-mell after the UK using essentially the same strategy that the Brits say we condemn? If You Want To Be Obama’s Lieutenant, PM, You’ll Need Soldiers By Camilla Cavendish London Sunday Times, June 16, 2013, Pg. 21 On Friday the sonorous boom of the …

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Rickard Falkvinge: Further Analysis of NSA PRISM, Limited Liability of Service Providers

So Just Exactly What Is NSA’s Prism, More Than Reprehensibly Evil? Privacy: The US NSA’s PRISM program appears to be a set of specialized deep-packet inspection filters combined with pre-existing wiretapping points at high-level Internet carriers in the United States. Since the program’s revelation the day before yesterday, speculations have ranged far and wide about who …

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Search: nato osint course + NATO OSINT RECAP

N2-04, “NATO Open Source Intelligence Course” (NS) (This is a two week course from Aug 2013) Aim: To educate NATO and national intelligence analysts about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations, techniques, requirements and procedures Academic Course Guide 2013-03-27 [all courses, titles and short descriptions only] One Page Course Description (repeated below) N2-04 NATO Open Source …

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Reflections on Insanity & Integrity + Reflections RECAP

I’ve been watching three areas the past few months: 01  Afghanistan and the non-existent exit strategy 02  NSA and the implosion of accountability in the US IC 03  Veteran suicides, active duty sexual assaults, and “the German disease” From where I sit, the senior leadership across the national security community and deep into every corner …

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Winslow Wheeler: F-35 Corruption, Costs, & Consequences (All Five Parts)

This series reveals a political and military system that is sick in its core.  This toxic stew of the F-35’s high cost, abetted by concurrent production, lagging performance and continuing design problems, has put U.S. and allied air power into a dive. The dive will steepen so long as F-35 production at the currently-projected rates …

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