http://billmoyers.com/content/
http://billmoyers.com/2012/04/
http://billmoyers.com/episode/
and pbs …
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/
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Eagle: Bill Moyers Unleashed — An American Treasure
Cultural Intelligence, EthicsDefDog: Bruce Hoffman, the US IC, Bin Laden…Many Contradictions
07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Articles & Chapters, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Media, Military
Bruce is bascially saying that the IC has failed completely…..which we know it has. This also supports my view that the folks who dreamed up the latest air attack are also out of touch with AQ reality. But the media has dumbed down the public enough that they believe almost anything….
The thing I find interesting is that Bruce has openly said that the IC is a failure. He also raises some questions that would suggest bin Laden was not alive, i.e. the focus on the Arab Spring. This does not fall into line with UBL as much as it does with Zawahiri….and his Muslim Brotherhood.
As I noted, the fact that someone with Hoffman's stature is questioning the IC should make people pause and reflect on the state of affairs within those halls….
Bruce Hoffman: What Osama Was Thinking at the End
Bin Laden was more fearful that his men might be affected by the weather than by any effort of the Pakistani government to apprehend them.
By releasing 17 documents seized last year from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the U.S. government has supplied a needed corrective to the bunkum that has passed for analysis throughout the war on terrorism's first decade.
For too long, government officials and pundits alike have made extravagant and incorrect claims about the weakness of al Qaeda and the irrelevance of its founding leader.
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Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links
Links (Global Security)
Robert Steele: Clandestine Operations 101 + Personal Comment
Advanced Cyber/IO, Ethics, Government, Intelligence (government)
Clandestine Operations 101
Here's how to create a clandestine service that is not the laughing stock of the planet:
00 Stop confusing secure field operations with any need for access to official secrets. The primary reason CIA is such a mess is the ascendance of security ignorance and myopia combined with sedentary overly fearful managers unable to do anything from outside an official cover safety net.
01 Recruit mid-career US citizens who have unwittingly created their own cover and access. Do not assign them anything requiring more than 10% of their time.
02 Recruit mid-career non-US citizens, same as above, they never visit HQS or touch secrets not collected by themselves.
03 Get back in the business of Principal Agents (PA) from all countries, same selection concept as above (mid-career, have the cover and access desired).
04 Start doing multinational regional clandestine stations, using indigenous case officers (the Australians and Cambodians seem to have this down pat) while providing close-in technical, money, and leads from the constellation.
05 Be more aggressive (with appropriate caution) in doing what one of my mentors termed “it's just business.” One time offers based on outcomes, no polygraphs, no approvals from HQS people out of touch with reality, etcetera.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE
It has come to my attention that someone describing themselves as one of my classmates has said that I nearly killed people in El Salvador, had an accident, and was effectively non-operational from 1982 on. Since half my class quit within five years, by my calculation there should be no more than one or two of my graduating class (I skipped interims and jumped one class, I remember no one from my EOD class.
Below are the facts, without any grudges. What I learned from my experiences within CIA remains priceless and has informed my persistent efforts to reform US intelligence.
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Reference: CRS on the Concept of “Partnership” in National Security
Advanced Cyber/IOIn Brief: Clarifying the Concept of “Partnership” in National Security
Catherine Dale
Specialist in International Security
May 4, 2012
Phi Beta Iota: This 12 page document is hugely important at multiple levels. Strategically it makes clear that an important concept is not yet properly defined, understood, or leverages. Operationally it raises the vital–but unanswered–question of what any partnership implies or explicitly demands in relation to C4I: shared communications, computing, directive or voluntary command and control, and of course information-sharing, intelligence (decision-support) burden-sharing, and harmonization of spending and behavior through a shared view (shared information and intelligence) of the challenge and a shared role among the stakeholders in developing “commander's intent.” The concept of “going local” is fundamental, and also not properly defined–nor the information-sharing and intelligence-sharing implications addressed. Finally, the report–a truly articulate contribution–avoids (understandably) the really strategic question: if and when all of this can be made to work against a non-existent threat (terrorism, which is a tactic not a threat), imagine what it could do if we trained, equipped, and organized Whole of Government to actually address the public interest across the ten high-level threats by harmonizing how we manage the twelve core policies?
Howard Rheingold: The Return of Liberal Arts and General Education
04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO
Info Capacity 1 One in a million: Information vs. Attention
From a special section of the International Journal of Communication — Howard
“Aristotle could write that we ascribe “universal education to one who in his own individual person is thus critical in all or nearly all branches of knowledge, and not to one who has a like ability merely in some special subject.” Today nobody can know about everything. The flow of information so far exceeds what anyone can observe, learn, or appreciate that we must look at methods of compression, summarization, and filtering. These methods must achieve reductions of a million to one to cope with what is now routine. Fortunately, technology is making this possible.”
Sepp Hasslberger: Tesla Free Energy Demonstration
05 Energy
Free Tesla Energy is possible says Muammer Yildriz at the university of Delft, presenting energy from magnetism.
Yildriz demonstrates a magnetic motor at the University of Delft in the Netherlands, after which the motor is disassembled and the parts passed around for inspection to the attending students and faculty.
Permanent magnets arranged in a specific way are used as the prime mover in this motor.
Below is a ten-minute video.
