The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Thomas Leo Briggs is a retired CIA operations officer with 3 years military experience in US Army military police, 3 years as a Special Agent in the Drug Enforcement Administration and 26 years in the CIA. He tried to make use of computer capabilities to aid and assist HUMINT operations in a variety of ways …
Continue reading “Thomas Briggs: Reflections on OSINT in Support of HUMINT”
70 Things That Can and Will Go Wrong in a Disaster The first 25: 1. In an earthquake, there may be violent ground shaking; it will seem to last much longer than it actually does. 2. Fires will occur, caused by electrical shorts, natural gas, fireplaces, stoves, etc. 3. Fires in collapsed buildings will be …
Continue reading “Owl: 70 Things That Will Go Wrong in a Disaster”
Beware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security! Be where the Four Hoarsemen of the Apocalypse are not? Introduction Being wary of “legality” Being wary of “accountability” Being wary of “marketability” Being wary of “security” Systemic implications of “horsemen” and “hoarsemen” and correspondences between them Being wary of the Four Hoarsemen acting together Being where and how …
Respect is due to those who developed the viable method of desalination of seawater described in this report. A means of mitigating the damage done by fracking to potable ground water should include Canadian advances in desalination technology presented by Tang/Zoshi of rexresearch.com. The cumulative effects of fracking includes networked systems in the environment including …
Continue reading “George Abney: Emerging Desalination Technology”
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo 4.0 out of 5 stars Serious Economics Poorly Presented, December 14, 2012 I have no doubt that among economists this book merits all the praise it has received; I do NOT recommend it for the general reader, indeed, I do not recommend it at all unless it is assigned reading, …
Continue reading “Review: Poor Economics – A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty”
Global report: Obesity bigger health crisis than hunger By Danielle Dellorto, CNN updated 5:41 AM EST, Fri December 14, 2012 Obesity is a bigger health crisis globally than hunger, and the leading cause of disabilities around the world, according to a new report published Thursday in the British medical journal The Lancet. Nearly 500 researchers …
Continue reading “SchwartzReport: Obesity Bigger Health Problem than Hunger”
Citation: Robert David STEELE Vivas, “The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence,” Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog (12 December 2012). For Part II See: 2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Contextual Trust for Sources & Methods UPDATE 16 Dec 2012: …
