Public Intelligence Blog – Page 3116 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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These slides are responsive to your search intent, with five forms of collection management thought: by the mission area, by the broad target class, by the level of analysis, by the tribe, or by the discipline.

General:

Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence

Graphic: Global Intelligence Collection Failure

Graphic: Global Intelligence Processing Failure

By the Mission Area:

Graphic: Holistic Analysis

Graphic: Holistic Analytics for Nuclear-Climate

By the Target:

Graphic: Four Global Belligerent Groups Today

Graphic: Four Threat Classes

Graphic: Ten High-Level Threats to Humanity

By the Level of Analysis:

Graphic: OSINT Support to Four Levels of Analysis

Graphic: Herring Triangle of Four Levels Need & Cost

Graphic: OSINT & Universal Coverage at Local Level

Graphic: Threat Level Changes Depending on the Level of Analysis

By the Tribe:

Graphic: President and Humanity

Graphic: Collection Sophistication

Graphic: Information Commons & Eight Tribes

Graphic: The UN and the Eight Tribes of Intelligence

By the Discipline:

Graphic: OSINT, Missions, & Disciplines

Graphic: OSINT, We Went Wrong, Leaping Forward

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Guggenheim Lab: mobile lab traveling to 9 major cities over 6 yrs

Geospatial, Topics (All Other)

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Currently in NYC with many free events/discussions until Oct 16.

Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse. Its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation, and ultimately the creation of forward-thinking solutions for urban life. (Will it live up to this blurb?)
http://bmwguggenheimlab.org/

2011/08/18

Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing Imagery Analysis

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Geospatial, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Threats

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Analyzing Satellite Imagery of the Somali Crisis Using Crowdsourcing

EXTRACT:

Here’s the plan. He talks to UNOSAT and Google about acquiring high-resolution satellite imagery for those geographic areas for which they need more information on. A colleague of mine in San Diego just launched his own company to develop mechanical turk & micro tasking solutions for disaster response. He takes this satellite imagery and cuts it into say 50×50 kilometers square images for micro-tasking purposes.

We then develop a web-based interface where volunteers from the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) sign in and get one high resolution 50×50 km image displayed to them at a time. For each image, they answer the question: “Are there any human shelters discernible in this picture? [Yes/No].” If yes, what would you approximate the population of that shelter to be? [1-20; 21-50; 50-100; 100+].” Additional questions could be added. Note that we’d provide them with guidelines on how to identify human shelters and estimate population figures.

John Robb: 147 Banks & Corporations as Global Financial Cancer, Gray Markets Fairs, Urban Foraging

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, Blog Wisdom, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Corporations, Corruption, IO Impotency, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth

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JOURNAL: Global Financial Cancer

EXTRACT: A new paper, The Network of Global Corporate Control by Vitali et. al. from ETH in Zurich. This paper finds, through extensive network analysis, that a small group of tightly intertwined financial institutions control the bow of the global financial system. It is in effect, the world's first super-organism. 147 trans-national companies that the global core that is owned by itself (3/4 of the ownership of firm's in this organism are owned by firms in the organism). This organism is beyond governments. If it is self serving (and this shouldn't be too hard to assume), it is the equivalent of a biological cancer that has metastasized.

JOURNAL: Grey Market Fairs

Maker grey market ecosystem in China. Note how the Shanzhai Rules are reminiscent of the standing orders of OSW.

Foraging on vacant lots. The NYTimes dives in.

Phi Beta Iota: The day will come when the executives of the 147 transnational companies find themselves kidnapped, renditioned, and tortured until they make restitution by giving up the majority of their ill-gotten gains. We anticipate a mix of vigilante, criminal, and third world governments getting into this business. On the other end of the spectrum, we anticipate a massive withdrawal of normal people from the fraud-ridden world of banking and government-printed money. The two go together.

2011/08/18

Search: how to use openbts in individual phones

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Word Press cannot handle questions the way Google does. For this WordPress, OpenBTS by itself yields the best results for Phi Beta Iota: OpenBTS. See especially Range Networks: The ONLY OpenBTS Real Deal.

We prize searches, for they add to the substance of this website, a form of co-creation. Below are some hits from outside

Wikipedia: OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to make telephone calls without using existing telecommunication providers' networks. OpenBTS is notable for being the first free software implementation of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack. It is written in C++ and released as free software under the terms of version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).

Open BTS: Open-source cell phone network could cut costs to $2 per month

Building and Running OpenBTS (SourceForge)

OpenBTS on Droid

Autonomous Internet Road Map

PDF: OpenBTS for Dummies

PDF The OpenBTS Project

2011/08/17