The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Tracking Energy Attacks site. This is a great early site put up by my friend, the excellent analyst Jennifer Giroux. If the oil companies and defense/intel world isn't fully funding her work analyzing attacks on energy infrastructrue, they are making a BIG mistake.
Sample Headlines:
Another Sinai EI Attack: Fourth times the charm
Status of Libyan Rebels Control of Oil Resources
FARC Strikes Again: Cañon Limon (aka “The Flute”) Pipeline Attacked
Oil Tanker Attacked in Indian Ocean, Hijacking Unsuccessful
Phi Beta Iota: Not only is it possible to create a prosperous world at peace for one third of what we spend on war, but a tumultous world is UNAFFORDABLE. Special interests have been getting by on the margin. Law enforcement and the military were designed for the 10% that are recalcitrant to the standing world order. When that number climbs to 20% and toward 40%, the efficacy and affordability of violent solutions to non-state violence collapse.
Scientists Turn to Crowds on the Web to Finance Their Projects
By THOMAS LIN
New York Times, July 11, 2011
In January, a time when many scientists concentrate on grant proposals, Jennifer D. Calkins and Jennifer M. Gee, both biologists, were busy designing quail T-shirts and trading cards. The T-shirts went for $12 each and the trading cards for $15 in a fund-raising effort resembling an online bake sale.
The $4,873 they raised, mostly from small donations, will pay their travel, food, lab and equipment expenses to study the elegant quail this fall in Mexico.
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In the crowd funding genus, MyProjects is a different species from Kickstarter. All projects on the site have been vetted by scientists and already receive financing from Cancer Research UK. And the funds are guaranteed regardless of whether the MyProjects goal is reached. Mr. Bromley calls it “substitutional funding.”
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The quail project was one of thousands that Cassie Marketos, a community editor at Kickstarter, has approved. “It’s one thing to buy a book about quails,” she said. “But to know that you played a small part in making it happen is a much different experience.”
Phi Beta Iota: The world is in an intermediary stage toward governing without government. The era of outrageous fraud, waste, and abuse–massive investments by the government of tax-payer funds on the basis of ideology or special interests, not intelligence with integrity–is coming to an end. Participatory democracy, alternative localized or specialized currencies that cannot be taxed, and intelligence-driven self-governance that is open to all stakeholders (Panarchy), are all emergent.
We generally say this approach is the same as a sucking chest wound…..
Cyberwar Plan Has New Focus on Deterrence
By JULIAN E. BARNES and SIOBHAN GORMAN
Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2011
The military must move from defending against major cyberattacks to deterring assaults by letting enemies know the U.S. is willing to retaliate with its own virtual weapons or military force, a top general said Thursday.
The Pentagon's new strategy for threats from computer hackers primarily deals with enhancing the defense of its computer systems and those of its military contractors. But Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that policy is just a start. He said that over the next decade the military would move beyond building better firewalls and make clear to adversaries that they will pay a price for serious cyberattacks.
“There is no penalty to attacking us now. We have to figure out a way to change that,” Gen. Cartwright said.
Phi Beta Iota: Never mind ignoring sound advice in the early 1990's [1994 Sounding the Alarm on Cyber-Security]; never mind DoD following the secret world into the technology rabbit-hole, sacrificing all human productivity on the altar of out-sourced incoherent contracting. What the above really says is that Cyber-Command realizes it has no hope at all of defending the rat's nest it has inherited, and it is now going to do a theatrical exit toward “counter-strike.” This is absurd in various ways. First off, only 20% of what we are calling secret actually is secret. Second off, we are so far out of touch with reality that the best way to retard adversary countries is to give them our acquisition system and our incoherent technology gameplan. Third off, the denial service of attacks are now coming from angry individuals, not nations, and London is one of the hubs. Last but not least, GAO has made it clear that the DoD Global Grid is dead in the water and will never breathe–ever. Bottom line: these folks not only don't understand the new game, they cannot even find the ball.
See Also:
2011 Cyber-Command or IO 21 + IO Roots
Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)
Reference: Bruce Schneier on Cyber War & Cyber Crime
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The existing US definitions of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are severely deficient at multiple levels. See the official definitions below the line. Here is a proper definition devised with Joe Markowitz and others who actually know something about the discipline.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is decision-support (an output not an input) that integrates open sources and methods including all forms of direct human knowledge elicited by intermediaries without subterfuge. It combines direct access to indigenous humans, gray literature, and the deliberate exploitation of both published and unpublished (field) human experts, advanced multi-disciplinary and multi-domain processing and integration or deconfliction, and advanced visualization and other methods for communicating context and insight to the supported decision-maker(s). OSINT is not the same as Open Source Information (OSIF), which is where the official definitions are now–publicly available information, nor is it the same as Open Source Data (OSD) or Validated Open Source Intelligence (OSINT-V), which can only be produced by an all-source analyst generally not a contractor. OSINT is a human intelligence function, not a technical intelligence function.
OSINT has been superceeded as the center of gravity for the future of intelligence by M4IS2: Multinational, Multiagency, Multidimensional, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making. 90% of M4IS2 is not secret, not expensive, and not federal or controlled by any government. Outside the wire both OSINT and M4IS should be controlled by the J-3 via Civil Affairs (Human) and Information Operations (IO). Secret bureacracies (including “cyber-commands”) do not have the knowledge, mind-set, or reliability to manage OSINT and M4IS2 interactions with all manner of humans in every clime and place. Inside the wire, the J-2 becomes the integrator of all-source information, and Civil Affairs and IO become advisory functions to the J-3 on non-kinetic options.
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Official Definitions:
Plants and fish in a closed loop on any rooftop or other available space.
Jeff Rubin on new food and energy crisis
Short video, toss in sabotage of pipelines and extreme financial problems, you have a melt-down. See also his book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization.
Japan Acknowledges Radioactive Beef Sold to Markets, Restaurants
Cessium for the masses. A good example of why global sourcing of food/services = no control. See Urban Farming above for an antidote.
