The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence. The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC: Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL: Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …
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This is what NATO and Africa Command call their J-2 over-arching concept. It is a useful concept, although it needs to be taken several steps further and also needs to be properly funded. Right now it is a shadow puppet that lacks proper multi-lingual multinational sourcing, processing, and analysis, both human and machine. Our over-arching …
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ROBERT STEELE: I have been watching with growing concern as Phi Beta Iota has posted a string of relatively radical posts on the Boston bombing and Texas fertilizer explosion. As most know, I lean toward transparency, truth, and trust, and the last thing I would want to do is marginalize these voices for truth and …
This is the actual document from CIA (Unclassified, PDF 11 pages): Meeting 21st Century Transnational Challenges: Building a Global Intelligence Paradigm CIA continues to lack an ability to do whole systems analytics with a true cost foundation; they continue to lack a strategic analytic model for collection, processing, and analysis capable of meeting strategy, policy, …
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Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists World is unprepared for changes that will see parts of Africa turned into disaster areas, say food experts John Vidal, The Observer, 13 April 2013 Millions of people could become destitute in Africa and Asia as staple foods more than double in price by 2050 as a …
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Robert Steele Discusses Open Source and Secret Intelligence HighGainBlog, 4 April 2013 Robert Steele has been a prescient thinker in the fields of search and content processing for decades. Best known for his work in open source intelligence, Mr. Steele has published widely on what I call “politico-info issues.” One April 2, 2013 Mr. Steele …
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