Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

The future of OSINT is M4IS2. The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2). The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb): Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) …

AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 24 Nov 09

Hot Topics AA: Al-Qaeda Moving to Africa: Sources 11/22/09 AA: Ship is pirate target again 11/19/09 AO: Angola: Armed Forces Staff Attend Workshop on Future Constitution 11/19/09 BW: Khama faces ICC prosecution 11/19/09 CD: FACTBOX-Who are Congolese warlords Katanga and Ngudjolo? 11/23/09 CD: UN blue helmets help passengers in DR Congo when plane overshoots runway …

Search: Seven Tribes (now Eight Tribes)

This concept first developed as an “information continuum” from described in 1992 as being from schoolhouse to White House, and then in 1993 covering nine elements as shown below. From there, for General Peter Schoomaker at USSOCOM, it was described as eight segments, treating the Internet as a separate entity.

Journal: Climate Gate Hacked Emails

Jennifer Hutton  November 24, 2009 The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet.   … Conspiracy, …

Journal: Al Gore–Not Evil Just Wrong

New Documentary Challenges Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ on Global Warming In 2007, a British High Court judge ruled that Al Gore’s global warming film contained nine significant errors and should no longer be screened in schools unless accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore’s “one-sided” views.   …  Buoyed by the ruling, two Irish journalists — Phelim …

Journal: Afghanistan

Pentagon preparing to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, official says CNN   November 24, 2009 Pentagon planners expect orders to send about 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan, a defense official told CNN, a day after the president’s final meeting to decide the next moves in Afghanistan.  The military has planning under way to send three U.S. …

Journal: Common Sense on Palestine & Israel

Encountering Peace: Getting serious about ‘economic peace’ More than 10 months have passed since President Barack Obama entered the White House and seven months since Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took over the reins in Jerusalem and there is still no peace process worth mentioning. Phi Beta Iota: Imagine an “Information Wall” available online and projected …