Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2503 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

IDEN A: How the devil does the big lie survive in the face of so much contrary evidence?

IDEN B: In the recent movie about FDR (Bill Murray), FDR tells the King of England that people want to believe their view of the world, not to have their views be disturbed by reality. We have made some progress. The public seems to be getting used to politicians having affairs. Some people can handle conspiracy theories (e.g., the movie JFK), but my sister and her husband say that if JFK was killed by a conspiracy, the world would fall into chaos. Nothing could be believed. There is a fear of conceptual instability. It seems that small lies can be refuted, but big lies …. not so easily. Perhaps truth needs to be dispensed in small doses. Too much overwhelms people. And everyone has a different tolerance for information that disconfirms their present conceptions. What to do? Well, one answer is to not challenge the big lie. I suspect this is where the media are. Why risk loosing access to news sources and giving one's competitors an advantage?

IDEN C: Another way of looking at this is place-related. It may be that the truth — and the ability to discern, appreciate, and leverage the truth — has to be a bottom-up campaign, one town hall, one neighborhood, at a time. Trying to transform an entire nation or government in the face of very well-funded resistance is futile — tilting at windmills. Find one village, and help it shine….the spike theory of change.

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Mini-Me: Lt Chris Dorner, USN (RIP) a False Flag?

Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

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Huh?

The First American Kamikaze ?

Preston James, PhD

Veterans Today, 24 February 2013

Folk Hero, Rambo or Kamikaze?

Was Christopher Dorner a true Community Folk Hero of the downtrodden, a Rambo seeking Racial Justice, or was he actually the First American Kamikaze?

A detailed examination of all such claims made in the mass media about Chris Dorner and the actual evidence so far available (even though scant) shows major contradictions.

Read full article with links and videos.

Phi Beta Iota: There is quite a bit of repetition and incoherence in the long piece, but it does bring forth multiple contradictions and it does successfully call into question the official narrative.

2013/02/25

Graphic: True Cost of Coal

True Cost

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2013/02/25

John Maguire: YouTube (12:24) Edgar Morin on Learning to Live and Learn (French with English Sub-Titles)

Education, Knowledge, YouTube

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Edgar Morin on how to live, learn, and thrive in a world ruled by non-linear complexity and interdependence:

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Worth a Look: New Book on Air Power in UN Operations

Worth A Look

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Wings for Peace: Air Power in UN Operations

Contents

24 February 2013

Front Material
0.1    Preface
0.2    Foreword Roméo Dallaire
0.3    Introduction Walter Dorn

Part I: The UN’s First “Air Force”: Congo 1960-64
1.0    Introduction
1.1    Dropping Bombs and Firing Missiles: The United Nations Mission in the Congo Walter Dorn and Robert Pauk
1.2    Organizing the Air Effort in the Congo, 1960 William K. Carr
1.3    A Fine Line: Use of Force, the Cold War, and Canada's Air Contribution to ONUC Kevin Spooner

Part II: Airlift: Lifeline for UN Missions
2.0    Introduction
2.1    Humanitarian Relief in Haiti 2010: Honing the Partnership Between the US Air Force and the United Nations Robert Owen
2.2    Procurement of Aviation Support and UAVs Kevin Shelton-Smith, Chief Aviation Projects, UN Headquarters
2.3    UNHAS: The UN Humanitarian Air Service Walter Dorn and Ryan Cross
2.4    Aviation’s Role in Global Aid and Social Development Andy Cole

Part III: Surveillance: Eyes in the Sky
3.0    Introduction
3.1    Aerial surveillance: Eyes in the Sky Walter Dorn
3.2    UNOGIL Walter Dorn
3.3    UN Military Observation on the Roof-top of the World: Canadian Air Operations in Kashmir Matthew Trudgen
3.4    UAVs Supporting UN Operations: The MDA Service Model Dave Neil

Part IV: Combat: Enforcing the Peace
4.0    Introduction
4.1    Air Operations in Somalia William Dean III
4.2    UN Attack Helicopters in the Heart of Africa, 2004 onward Walter Dorn

Part V: No-Fly Zones
5.0    Introduction
5.1    UN Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission and the Southern No-Fly Zone, 1992-2003 James McKay
5.2    Touched by Air Power: Unarmed Military Observers in Sarajevo, 1993-94 F. Roy Thomas
5.3    Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia 1995: Humanitarian Constraints in Aerospace Warfare Robert Owen
5.4    Air Operations in Operations Unified Protector (Libya) Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre study [TBC]
5.5    Libya and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Paul Mitchell [TBC]

Part VI: Conclusions
6.0    Introduction
6.1    Peace from Above: Envisioning the Future of UN Airpower Robert D. Steele
6.2    Conclusion Walter Dorn et al.

Patrick Meier: SMS Code of Conduct for Disaster Response

Crowd-Sourcing, Geospatial, Mobile

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Launching: SMS Code of Conduct for Disaster Response

Shortly after the devastating Haiti Earthquake of January 12, 2010, I published this blog post on the urgent need for an SMS code of conduct for disaster response. Several months later, I co-authored this peer-reviewed study on the lessons learned from the unprecedented use of SMS following the Haiti Earth-quake. This week, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2013) in Barcelona, GSMA’s Disaster Response Program organized two panels on mobile technology for disaster response and used the event to launch an official SMS Code of Conduct for Disaster Response (PDF). GSMA members comprise nearly 800 mobile operators based in more than 220 countries.

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To connect this effort with the work that my CrisisComputing Team and I are doing at QCRI, our contact at Digicel during the Haiti response had given us the option of sending out a mass SMS broadcast to their 2 million subscribers to get the word out about 4636. (We had thus far used local community radio stations). But given that we were processing incoming SMS’s manually, there was no way we’d be able to handle the increased volume and velocity of incoming text messages following the SMS blast. So my team and I are exploring the use of advanced computing solutions to automatically parse and triage large volumes of text messages posted during disasters. The project, which currently uses Twitter, is described here in more detail.

Read full post.

Phi Beta Iota: Apart from the pioneering and preparatory effort, this is the first time we have seen a reference to a pre-crisis arrangement for crisis mass broadcast to all cell phones providing a code (or multiple codes) for use in populating the crisis map. What this really means is that Dr. Meier has now set a precedent for using SMS to populate a Local to Global Range of Needs (and Fulfilment) Table. This spells the end of the Specialized Agencies (SA) and the Red Cross, among others, as inefficient intermediaries delivering less than 20% of donor dollars to end-needy. The way is now open for a self-organizing system that engages the 80% of the rich that do not donate to charity now (most because they have learned not to trust charities — the Red Cross and Katrina will long be remembered) and can address needs in near real time down to the household level. As the price point of precision-guided micro-parachutes drops, the way is open for chartered flights to literally “rain” manna from the heavens. The work of Dr. Meier and his colleagues is inspiring, and more importantly, a clear break from the past and present inefficient and unresponsive bureaucracies of government and non-governmental organizations.

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INTELLIGENCE with INTEGRITY: Preface 1.0

Articles & Chapters

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01 Preface i-ii

Preface

This is the first book in the English language to address intelligence with integrity as a whole systems process, product, and service – as an integral function of both citizen life and the governance of any organization. Although conceptualized as a result of a lifetime of service in the so-called profession of intelligence, the essence of this book is captured in Ada Bozeman’s timeless insight (1998: 177):

(There is a need) to recognize that just as the essence of knowledge is not as split up into academic disciplines as it is in our academic universe, so can intelligence not be set apart from statecraft and society, or subdivided into elements…such as analysis and estimates, counterintelligence, clandestine collection, covert action, and so forth. Rather … intelligence is a scheme of things entire.

In that light, the following three quotations are helpful in understanding the importance of this work to the future of humanity (Ackoff 2004):

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