ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government suspended an Arctic biologist over how he awarded a polar bear research project to the University of Alberta and its management, not for his earlier scientific work detailing drowned polar bears, a watchdog group said Monday.
The reality check:
Documents provided by the watchdog group showed questioning by investigators earlier this year focused on the polar bear observations that Monnett and researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004.
American intelligence agencies are hoping to turn propaganda videos, images captured from enemy data caches, and other pics snapped with or without the subjects’ knowledge into readymade geolocation tags via a system that can identify exactly where any photo was taken anywhere in the world. If successful, such a tool could turn images captured from enemy hard drives–like those snatched from Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound back in May–into the makings for a point-by-point Google map of terrorist travels.
The actual search tried three times is too broad along with having a missing space between open and source. 2011 new opensource Even with the space, it is not fruitful: 2011 new open source. Open Source Intelligence 2011 has very good results at the top, but is very broad.
In keeping with the British Government's well-established record of comical ineptitude in dealing with Libya, foreign secretary William Hague chose to recognize the rebel leaders in Benghazi as the legitimate government of the country at the very moment some of them may have been shooting or torturing to death their chief military commander.
RASHAYIDA, West Bank | Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:43am EDT
(Reuters) – – Hewn from rock, the cavernous cisterns which dot the desert beyond Bethlehem have for centuries harvested winter rain to provide shepherds and their flocks with water through summer.
Under a baking sun, an elderly Bedouin explains how cisterns he remembers from childhood, many of them restored to full working order in the last few years, are once again helping his goat-herding community to survive.
That, he concludes, is why the Israeli authorities who control the West Bank have demolished at least three in the area since November.
“Maybe they are doing this to make us leave. We will not leave,” said Falah Hedawa, 64, sitting on cushions in his tent home pitched in the hills that slope down to the Dead Sea.
Out into the desert, a stagnant pool marked the spot where one of the cisterns, chiseled out of a hillside, had stood until its recent demolition. A mud trail on the otherwise dry ground indicated where the water inside had drained away toward a wadi, a valley which becomes a river when the rain falls.
Israel has demolished 20 rainwater collection cisterns in the West Bank in the first half of this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which monitors conditions in the Palestinian territories.
Phi Beta Iota: There are two crimes against humanity here, the first against the Palestinians, the second against the centuries old cisterns that collect winter water.
Phi Beta Iota: For a half century the US Intelligence Community has “pushed” hard target “intelligence” downstream while refusing to do Global Coverage. In the late 1980's it started to hear customer complaints about wanting to “pull” relevant information. Today the US Intelligence Community is completely isolated from 90% or so of the direct end-users, and has nothing to offer them even if they could “interact.” Below is a nuanced discussion that bears on the matter. The future of intelligence is not federal, not secret, and not expensive. The diamond paradigm, not the linear paradigm, is the inevitable future organization of a mature intelligence community. The conclusion is especially trenchant, focusing on shared tools and context as the core environment–the US Intelligence Community cannot provide tools for its own analysts, much less its customers, and is so divorced from reality (ten threats, twelve policies, eight demographics) as to be virtually irrelevant to the future. Emphasis below added to highlight three gold nuggets any information-intelligence manager should be harvesting.
“
“
