The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sooner than you thought? I would also suggest that Karzai is on shaky ground unless he figures out a way to get out of his Parliament crisis…..the Pashtu do not go for technology the way the Hazara and Tajiks do…… Waves of Unrest Spread to Yemen, Shaking a Region Thousands of protesters on Thursday took …
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A Plausible Promise by John Robb of Global Guerrillas For an open source revolt (here’s some background on “open source insurgency“) to be successfully formed, it needs a plausible promise. A meta issue around which all of the different factions etc. can form (remember, most of the groups and individuals involved in an open source …
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Dear friends, Food is basic. Lester Brown — founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, author of over 50 books on environmental issues, recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, and (according to the Washington Post) “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” — has just published a cogent …
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CIA “OPEN SOURCE WORKS” ON PAKISTANI LEADERSHIP “A review of the Pakistani media during October 2010 indicates that there is less talk of imminent political change.” That is the rather pedestrian conclusion of a brief report (pdf) that was prepared last November by “Open Source Works,” a previously unknown initiative of the CIA Directorate of …
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** SECRECY AND CLASSIFICATION — TWO DIVERGING DOMAINS Highly recommended look at Russian and US government convergence on a very large fiction: that information, which has been classified, and is in fact “open source” before or after being bureaucratically “classified,” remains “secret.” ** LEAKS TO AIPAC SAID TO BE “COMMON” Useful insights into the US …
2006: BASIC: Open Source Intelligence Familiarization Documents (Original) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) leads to Information Operations (IO), which leads to Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2), which leads to Cyber-Command (CYCO6), a mis-nomer, but representing all information in all languages all the time, with every person and every artifact having their own IP …
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Micah L. Sifry | December 17, 2010 – 4:01pm Back in 2009, Daniel Domscheit-Berg applied to the Knight News Challenge in the name of Wikileaks for $532,000 to fund a project to “improve the reach, use and impact of a platform that allows whistle-blowers and journalists to anonymously post source material.” At the time Domscheit-Berg …
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