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Worth a Look: Hugely Inflamatory Slam on US Muslim Tax-Deductible Fund-Raising for Hamas and Hezbollah

08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Civil Society, Non-Governmental
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
1.  Invite your attention the video at the YouTube link in the message below.
2.  Just to be clear:
a.  I cannot tell you precisely who made the video.
b.  I cannot tell definitively whether or not it is true in whole or in part..
c.  To me, it looks like it ((COULD)) be a product of selective editing with individual items extracted from multiple source and reassembled, without context, to suggest conclusions supporting somebody's predetermined viewpoint.  But that does not necessarily mean that it is not wholly or partially true.
d.  Invite your special attention to the credits at the very end — about 13:06 and beyond.  If Steven Emerson and the Investigativer Project are involved with this video, that would increase its credibility in my eyes.
e.  All foregoing said, I am inclined to believe video and message are more true than not.
3.  For some of you addees, I think this is relatively local for if I understand east Florida geography.

Busted – Orlando Mosque Finances Hamas Fundraiser

Phi Beta Iota: The above YouTube is just under 14 minutes and well-worth watching.  We offer several observations:

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The Journal of Public Intelligence is at this time virtual and chaordic.  Below are two ways of reading it:

Public Intelligence Journal (Home)

Journal ISSN 1078-1935 (2471 entries as of today)

The only other journal we really pay attention to and contribute to is

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IJIC)

See Also:

American Intelligence Journal
Defense Intelligence Journal
Intelligence And National Security
International Journal Of Intelligence And Counterintelligence
International Studies Association Archive
Journal Of Intelligence History
National Reconnaissance: Journal of the Discipline and Practice
Studies In Intelligence
The Journal Of Competitive Intelligence And Management

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Journal: Five Myths Debunked–Treasury Run by Crooks

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth
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Chuck Spinney Recommends

I asked my good friend Marshall Auerback, an investment advisor and lawyer by training and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, to evaluate Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s claim that TARP has been a stunning success.  Geithner made this claim in a 10 October op-ed in the Washington Post, entitled, “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tackles five myths about TARP,” which is contained below as Attachment 2 beneath Auerback’s critique [Attachment 1].  To those of you who would sanitize these loose ends as a lingering “moral hazard,” I would urge you to think again.

Chuck Spinney
Carloforte, Sardinia
——–[Attachment 1]——–

The Auerback Critque:Four Realities Debunk Geithner’s Five Myths

Marshall Auerback

We have left frauds in charge of failed banks and covered up their losses.
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Journal: Information Overload & Leadership Failure

IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Standards, Strategy
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Information Overload – Too Much Of A Good Thing?

October 11, 2010 – Everyone has seen the commercial on television. Someone asks a simple question, and then everyone in the crowd starts spewing forth all these facts that have been found via the Internet. This makes for some very clever and funny advertising, but let’s face it. Information overload is a real problem. The magic formula is to deliver the right information to the right people who are searching, at the right time. Sound simple enough, but how many avenues have you been down yourself just because you are looking for a certain recipe for brownies? In a closer look found here, some of the problems that contribute to information overload are discussed.

These include defining findability, an object-centric perspective, an actor-centric perspective, and filters that promote findability. Interesting read.

From the source:

The question is however, is it the abundance of the information that is the problem, or a general lack of maturity in approaches to designing effective organization and access mechanisms? In his presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, Clay Shirky referred to this idea as “Filter Failure”. He describes information overload as the normal case and that it’s not necessarily the quantity of information that’s the problem, it’s our ability to filter through what’s there that’s the real issue.

Tip of the Hat to Marjorie M K Hlava at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: It is not a filter failure.  It is a leadership failure…leadership lacking integrity in the holistic sense of the word, too eager to rush to pay for technical collection solutions that increase the size of their firehose but ignore both the fact that the fires we need to put out are small scattered ones, and the people we need to support require both back office and desktop tools.  All this was well known in 1985 and the solutions fully articulated by 1989.

See Also:

Graphic: Balance Matters

Worth a Look: 1989 All-Source Fusion Analytic Workstation–The Four Requirements Documents

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Worth a Look: Robert Young Pelton Goes Fishing…

08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Peace Intelligence
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DuckDuckGo Update on RYP

Robert Young Pelton, along with Stephen E. Arnold, was the only “repeat” speaker year after year at the multinational open source intelligence event that ran from 1992-2006.  Here is a photo of RYP that just came to our attention while discussing how to fish for drug dealers crossing border lakes.

See Also:

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Robert Young Pelton

Review: Licensed to Kill–Hired Guns in the War on Terror (Hardcover)

Review: Robert Young Pelton’s The World’s Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition

2006 Pelton (US) Recommends The Changing Face of Global Violence

2004 Pelton (US) Value-added Citizen Blogs, Forums, and Wars

2003 Pelton (US) World’s Most Dangerous Places

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Journal: Post-Partisan Encounters–Huckabee & Huffington

Collective Intelligence, Media, Open Government, Policy
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Beyond Left And Right: Arianna And Mike Huckabee On Fox News (VIDEO)

Arianna visited Mike Huckabee's eponymous show this weekend, finding plenty of common ground with the Fox News host and former Republican governor from Arkansas.

“Basically we went from a country that made things to a country that made things up: CDOs, credit default swaps, toxic derivatives,” said Arianna. “Wall Street became a casino. And we the taxpayers bailed them out. That's where you and I agree.”

The pair also agreed on the problems with Fannie and Freddie, the need to improve America's crumbling infrastructure, and even shared some quips about their accents.

Phi Beta Iota: This is the first sign we have seen of intelligent life in broadcasting–if these two decent people can extend the dialog and maintain the focus on reality-based affordable holistic policy, they could be game-changers.