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2014/02/082014/03/25

Review (Guest): The Burglary – The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI

Betty Medsger Hoover’s FBI and its threat to the Preservation of our Democratic Values and Institutions, February 8, 2014 Herbert L. Calhoun Seen properly in its widest context, this book tells us an important story about ourselves. It is a story about a familiar political game that our leaders continue to play on us. First …

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2014/02/06

John Robb: One Man Can Change the World…

Update on One Man vs. the World When I wrote Brave New War back in 2006, I made this aggressive projection on how rapid technological change would change warfare: The threshold necessary for small groups to conduct global warfare has finally been breached, and we are only starting to feel its effects. Over time, in …

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2014/02/032016/03/26

Reflections on the Future of Information Technology – An Open Letter

SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Open-Letter This started out as an a letter to the collective leadership of a very promising open source software company, took a side step toward Microsoft, and finally made the leap here as a general open reference. Earth Intelligence Network, A Virginia Non-Profit (501c3) Corporation, is seeking endowed alliances that might wish to advance …

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2014/01/272014/01/27

Yoda: The NSA’s Losing Argument

The NSA’s Losing Argument The Editors, Bloomberg, 26 January 2014 Of the many questions that still surround the National Security Agency’s vast global spying operations, one seems especially pertinent: Do they actually work? That is, have they helped to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans? In the case of the NSA’s phone-data program — in which …

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2014/01/23

Owl: Ralph Nader on Internet Wrongful Secrecy, Snares and Delusions

Expect to Get “Mice Print” or Little or Nothing When Looking for Public Information Ralph Nader debunks a major myth about the Internet: the assumption that government and important public information is accessible or easily so. As he shows, in many cases, not so at all: “Information technology (IT), now the supplier of millions of …

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2014/01/232014/01/23

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War… Ukraine Round-Up 1.8

AERIAL SURVEILLANCE: JLENS Over Maryland CHINA: response to ICIJ report on China’s elite offshore accounts CYBER: concept of the deep state CYBER: P.W Singer on protection EDUCATION: MOOCs ENVIRONMENT: dangerous pipelines (time line of oil spills) EPIDEMICS: bird flu cases on the rise

2014/01/212014/02/16

YALE The Politic Interviews Robert Steele

Open Source everything: A Spy Comes Clean An interview with former CIA Clandestine Services Case Officer Robert Steele. By Kris Todi Robert Steele is a former Marine Corps infantry officer, former spy, and long-time champion of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Somewhere in there he also became an honorary hacker and the #1 Amazon reviewer for …

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