The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
China-North Korea: Update. China’s Foreign Ministry declined Wednesday, 8 May, to confirm the Bank of China’s closure of the account of the North Korean Foreign Trade Bank. In response to a question at Wednesday’s news conference, Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, “For specifics, please refer it to competent Chinese authorities.” Sources of the Daily NK …
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 …
A Commander Seeks To Chart A New Path For Special Operations By Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker New York Times, May 2, 2013 WASHINGTON – Not long after Adm. William H. McRaven led the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, he was put in charge of the nation’s entire contingent of Special Operations forces, and …
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Joseph G. Bock 5.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering Work, Deserves a Great Deal of Attention, April 29, 2013 I am shocked that there are no reviews of this book. Brought to my attention by Berto Jongman, one of the top researchers in Europe with a special talent at the intersection of terrorism and related …
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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Community-based labs nurture young talent Fab Labs, which began at MIT, could bloom under bill in Congress EXTRACT The mobile facility, as well as a Fab Lab at the South End Technology Center, are part of a patchwork of some 40 labs around the United States and 80 worldwide. Their fortunes range from well-endowed to …
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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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