China-North Korea: China offered to help North Korea control cross-border crime and build law-enforcement forces, according to a report by Agence France-Presse on 12 August. A spokesman also said China provided military equipment to North Korea's National Defense Commission during a visit by China's Deputy Public Security Minister Liu Jing on 8 August.
North Korea's Security Ministry staff and a Chinese public security delegation met on 12 August, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
NIGHTWATCH Comment: The reports are intermittent in the public media, but cumulatively they establish a pattern of China using economic and law enforcement linkages to tie North Korea more tightly. When North Korean leadership has been strong, it strongly and successfully has resisted Chinese initiatives. That does not appear to be the case at this time.Ā China's admission of providing “military equipment” is unusual and rare. The actors mentioned in the report suggest the reference is to crowd control equipment.
Phi Beta Iota: Hybrid and M4IS2 (along with bottom-up self-governance) will be the defining attributes of local to global governance in the 21st Century.Ā The USA has consistently made the mistake of selling arms and withholding information sharing and intelligence capacity building (providing stealable funds does not count).Ā A mix of hybrid bi-lateral (such as Australian-Cambodian task forces on human trafficking) and hybrid multi-lateral (e.g. a regional intelligence centre for Central America) will flip the international relations and national security paradigms.
WordPress produces stuff in reverse chronological order.Ā American Jihad, by Steve Emerson, was published 28 January 2003 and reviewed16 February 2003, which puts it at the very end of a long list of other relevant hits.Ā This search focus will ensure it comes up fast next time.
The below book may have drawn on Steve Emerson's accomplishments as if they were the author's.Ā It is never-the-less a superb book that complements the work by Steve Emerson.
August 12, 2010 by JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
The Central Intelligence Agency purposefully concealed at least four terrorism detainees from the US legal system, including the Supreme Court, according to an exclusive report by the Associated Press. The news agency has revealed that the CIA secretly transported the four to GuantĆ”namo Bay Detention Camp on Cuba in 2003, two years before it publicly admitted their capture. It then secretly transferred them again to other sites in its black site prison network in various countries around the world, just three months before their prolonged stay at GuantĆ”namo would entitle them to legal representation. While at GuantĆ”namo, the four prisoners, Abd al-Nashiri, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Ramzi Binalshibh and Abu Zubaydah, were kept at a facility known as āStrawberry Fieldsā, which is detached from the main prison site at the bay. By hiding the four, the Bush Administration managed to keep them under CIA custody while denying them legal representation for two years longer than allowed by US law.
Izatullah Nusrat, 42, was held at the U.S. facility in Guantanamo for nearly five years. Now he is back in Afghanistan and running for election to Parliament in the Sept. 18 election. Nusrat has harsh words for Americans, but he favors working with the current government over the Taliban and says he wants the fighting to stop.
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab 2 August 2010 by Martin Moore
5 Questions
Here are just five (of many) questions news orgs should ask themselves when they get their next data dump:
1. How do we harness public intelligence to generate a long tail of stories? Though the Telegraph succeeded in unearthing dozens of stories from the Parliamentary expenses data, the handful of reporters in the bunker could never trawl through each of the millions of receipts contained on the computer disks. It was The Guardian that first worked out how to deal with this; it not only made the receipts available online but provided tools to search through them and tag them (see Investigate your MP's expenses). This way it could harness the shared intelligence — and curiosity — of hundreds, if not thousands, more volunteer watchdogs, each of whom might be looking for a different story from the expenses data. As a result, the Guardian generated many more stories and helped nurture a community of citizen scrutineers
First, under his leadership the ISI has embarked on an unprecedented mission to revamp its international image. On the one side, this has led to a campaign of āpublic intelligence,ā in line with the very fashionable public diplomacy concept. Never before have so many Western journalists and delegations been invited to visit ISIās headquarters in Islamabad, where they are object of an intense PR campaign āover tea and PowerPoint briefings.ā
Here's Nassau District Attorney Kathleen RIce's entry in the post-debate debate: “a Wall Street accountability plan”:
Some hallmark elements of DA Rice's plan include amending the Martin Act to grant the AG examination authority essentially akin to an open warrant over financial agents; expanding the Investor Protection Bureau and making it self-funding by diverting a percentage of penalties and settlements back to the OAG; putting information about financial agents in a new online database for consumers; and encouraging Wall Street whistleblowers to come forward with the help of a Special Deputy Attorney General for Public Intelligence.
