Marcus Aurelius: Mexico City “C4I4” Surveillance Center

Mexico City Opens “C4I4″ Public-Surveillance Intelligence Center There are 13,000 surveillance cameras dispersed across this megalopolis, capturing everything in view, in real time and around the clock. The cameras peek at streets and people from the tops of light poles, inside buses and over subway platforms, watching in the name of public safety. The local …

Review (UK): Los servicios de inteligencia ante el siglo XXI [Intelligence Services in the 21st Century]

Gustavo DIAZ Matey 5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely important Spanish-language future-relevant book on intelligence, 31 Oct 2011 I know the author personally, have followed his work over many years, and consider him to be one of the top authorities on intelligence writing in the Spanish language. I recently worked with him in Spain on …

Reference: 2011 FBI National Gang Threat Assessment

Preface The National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) prepared the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment (NGTA) to examine emerging gang trends and threats posed by criminal gangs to communities throughout the United States. The 2011 NGTA enhances and builds on the gang-related trends and criminal threats identified in the 2009 assessment. It supports US Department of …

Chuck Spinney: From Algeria to Libya –Lessons Not Learned + USG CIA Web of Deceit in Arabia RECAP

The triumphalism in the US surrounding the liquidation of Qadaffi may be short lived.  That is because most Americans do not appreciate how the legacy of anti-colonialism shapes the contemporary cultural DNA in North Africa or how influential that legacy has been in shaping the revolts of what is now called the Arab Spring.  There …