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26 Nov 09

"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on.
Long Island University political science professor, J. Patrice McSherry, revealed, "U.S. military and intelligence forces were well informed of Condor operations, and the United States played a key covert role in modernizing and extending the Condor apparatus.
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- Manhunting--the deliberate concentration of national power to find, influence, capture, or when necessary kill an individual to disrupt a human network--has emerged as a key component of operations to counter irregular warfare adversaries in lieu of traditional state-on-state conflict measures. It has arguably become a primary area of emphasis in countering terrorist and insurgent opponents. (George A. Crawford, Manhunting: Counter-Network Organization for Irregular Warfare, JSOU Report 09-7, The JSOU Press, Hurlburt Field, Florida, September 2009, p. 1)
- Community capabilities in this area, efforts to establish organizations that focus information operations have not been viewed as a positive development by the public or the media, who perceive government-sponsored information efforts with suspicion. Consequently, these efforts must take place away from public eyes.
- This too, follows the Condor model where independently organized "task forces" drawn from a pool of technical specialists operating under deep cover, carried out intense psychological operations that targeted public opinion on the home front, the better to silence anyone who might oppose the "shooters" who did the dirty work.

08 Nov 09

Antifascist Calling...: Obama Regime: Toss NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Lawsuit

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denounce the lawless behavior of his Oval Office predecessor while continuing, even expanding, the reach of unaccountable security agencies that subvert constitutional guarantees
Claiming "sovereign immunity" in practice, this means that under DoJ's ludicrous interpretation of the Orwellian PATRIOT Act, the government can never be held accountable for illegal surveillance under any federal statute
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- The New York Times revealed in April and June that the ultra-spooky agency "intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year."
- In an Electronic Police State, every surveillance camera recording, every email you send, every Internet site you surf, every post you make, every check you write, every credit card swipe, every cell phone ping... are all criminal evidence, and they are held in searchable databases, for a long, long time. Whoever holds this evidence can make you look very, very bad whenever they care enough to do so.
- The splitter has no intelligence at all, it just makes a blind copy. There could not possibly be a legal warrant for this, since according to the 4th Amendment warrants have to be specific

07 Nov 09

Information Arbitrage: Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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And which entities are receiving the most heat? The exchanges. The least? The OTC derivatives markets and the rating agencies. Why is this?

29 Oct 09

Britain: Protests and political campaigning redefined as “domestic extremism”

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The report continues, “The term ‘domestic extremism’ is now common currency within the police. It is a phrase which shapes how forces seek to control demonstrations. It has led to the personal details and photographs of a substantial number of protesters being stored on secret police databases around the country.”
Noting that “there is no official or legal definition of the term,” the report adds that the police spying network has instead effectively created its own all-embracing definition.

27 Jun 09

Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet

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Internet users behaved differently on Facebook than anywhere else online: They used their real names, connected with their real friends, linked to their real email addresses, and shared their real thoughts, tastes, and news. Google, on the other hand, knew relatively little about most of its users other than their search histories and some browsing activity.
they say they are going after an even bigger market: the expensive branding campaigns that so far have barely ventured online.
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- anyone wanting to access that stuff must go through Facebook; the social network treats it all as proprietary data
- The result: a second Internet, one that includes users' most personal data and resides entirely on Facebook's servers.
- Connect and Open Stream don't just allow users to access their Facebook networks from anywhere online. They also help realize Facebook's longtime vision of giving users a unique, Web-wide online profile. By linking Web activity to Facebook accounts, they begin to replace the largely anonymous "no one knows you're a dog" version of online identity with one in which every action is tied to who users really are.
- It's ironic to hear Zuckerberg paint Google as Big Brother. After all, many observers worry that Facebook itself has grown too controlling. Unlike Google, Facebook makes it difficult for users to export their contacts, mail, photos, and videos—a practice Web 2.0 evangelists say is a sign that the company values its proprietary data more than its users' experience.

04 Jun 09

Technology Review: Targeting the Brain with Sound Waves

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"With ultrasound, we have a much better spatial focus than [with] DBS," says Tyler. "And unlike TMS, we can get anywhere in the brain." Ultrasound--consisting of sound waves with a frequency above 20 kilohertz--has been used for decades in medicine to image muscle, organs, and fetuses. In the past five years, better tools for focusing ultrasound energy have enabled its use as an ablation tool: surgeons can now use high-intensity, high-frequency ultrasound (HIFUS) to essentially burn away uterine fibroids. HIFUS is also in clinical testing for treating brain tumors, breast tumors, and prostate cancer.
In as yet unpublished work, Yoo and his colleagues have demonstrated that low-frequency, low-intensity ultrasound can successfully suppress visual activity in rabbits' brains, as well as selectively trigger activity in the motor cortex.
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- It's not yet clear how ultrasound triggers electrical activity in neurons, but some believe that it is through thermal energy generated by sound waves. Tyler, however, says he has evidence that the neurons are activated through mechanical energy. Previous research has indeed shown that the neuron channels that control electrical activity in the brain can be activated with mechanical pressure. "What we think is happening is some kind of microcavitational effect, such as radiation or sheer strain, which affect the channels that control neural activity," he says.

31 Mar 09

When Robots Are Not Just About Autonomy - Remote Platform Targeted Killing - THE REVIEW: Weblog - The Complex Terrain Laboratory

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The incentives to capture in US counterterrorism have been shrinking over the last couple of years. Whether this is good or bad, or moral or immoral - leaving law and policy aside normatively for the moment - the costs of capturing, detaining, and interrogating someone have gone up a lot within the US system of counterterrorism. Considered without reference to norms, the disincentives to capture and the incentives to kill have gone up a lot. And remote platform killing by missile removes many potentially messy questions of surrender, including the human rights monitors' investigations into whether you were offered surrender, accepted surrender, didn't accept - war crime, after all, or simple murder, depending - so that operationally, targeted killing by remote control has certain advantages, clarity and definiteness not least among them.

05 Mar 09

Eruptions of Know-Nothingism

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The attacks are themselves part of a broader tradition in American politics that is not itself partisan: The mockery of specific scientific appropriations, which are made to look silly even though, in most cases, it’s actually serious research geared toward a public purpose.
At the same time, though, it would also behoove scientists and their supporters to bear in mind that it really isn’t obvious to many people how basic research, applied research, and technology differ.

19 Feb 09

World-Wide-Matel: Public Diplomacy & New Technologies

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We tend to focus on the instant communication aspect of the Internet, but the sinews of its influence are its capacity to find, sort and distribute information. Powerful search engines give individuals the power enjoyed only by world leaders few decades ago and before that time by nobody at all.
Countering conspiracy theories with facts and information is futile. Most conspiracy theories have a built in defense against such quaint ideas as truth or fact
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- We also need to recognize that the constant vetting and finding of flaws, even when done honestly, will create a permanent state of dissatisfaction among large numbers of people.
- more challenging is that the more extreme members of each audience will seize on the aspects they find most objectionable rather than look for areas of compatibility.
- There is much talk in public affairs about having a unified message. The new technologies, with all the links and leaks they entail in the information net, mean we can no longer have one unified centrally crafted message. We can have themes and goals that are interpreted and alerted by the individuals on the ground and closest to the challenges
- the communication environment was and will be fractured. It is only because we all grew up in that unusually homogeneous media environment that we think of it as normal in any way.
- What we should be looking for is synergy among the tools.

13 Feb 09

The Economy & Security - THE REVIEW: Weblog - The Complex Terrain Laboratory

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the global economic downturn has hit China hard. As a result, of the 130 million migrants, 20 million of them, or 15.3%, are out of a job. That is a massive amount of unemployed workers stuck in these cities and industrial towns, a long way from home.
This is not to say that we're heading for this kind of situation. But, the xenophobes in the US and the UK could become violent.

07 Feb 09

Antifascist Calling...: The Graveyard of Empires: America's New Asian Quagmire

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Daily Times reported February 4 that the "Talibanization" of Orakzai Agency near Peshawar has accelerated to such an extent that local people have fled the area to "escape Taliban-style rule." Daily Times avers,
With the Obama administration banking on a favorable outcome in Afghanistan as the United States ramps-up military operations, doubling American forces to some 60,000 troops within twelve months, the prospects for resupplying those troops without Russian cooperation are grim.
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- But perhaps this is precisely the intent of the program; to wrest control of the lucrative heroin trade from unreliable elements beholden to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, who allegedly derive $100 million a year from the global drug trade. What better means to disrupt the "Islamist" insurgency than to grant U.S.-allied criminals and warlords a piece of the action.
- It is "no longer necessary to produce intelligence or other evidence that each particular drug trafficker or narcotics facility in Afghanistan meets the criteria of being a military objective," Craddock writes.
- But here as elsewhere, things aren't always what they seem. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that General Craddock, under pressure from the Obama administration's new anti-Karzai policy, particularly now that Washington is eyeing newer, more compliant "provincial allies" in the Afghan Public Protection Force will target some narcotraffickers--those in Karzai's orbit--while handing their new "best friends forever," Afghan warlords and Pakistani "businessmen," the lucrative opium concession.
- We now know with last year's release of declassified CIA and U.S. Embassy documents by the National Security Archive that this was indeed the case. More importantly, the documents provided confirmation that CIA "anti-narcotics interdiction efforts" did not target the drug trade per se, but only those criminal gangs who ran afoul of wider U.S. geostrategic interests in resource rich Colombia.

29 Jan 09

Hacking the Psyche - O'Reilly Broadcast

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The purpose of this article, instead, is to share some of my initial thoughts on the possibilities of abuse, specific to the mapping of individual feelings online and possible implications.
Once enough information about Jack is collected to reasonably satisfy the personality test requirements, Jack's personality patterns can be determined that may aid a malicious third party in exploiting Jack's current emotional state. It is also plausible that this an be extended to automated and trigger based abilities.
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- erhaps a proactive approach targeted towards known suspects' online social presence can be used to detect certain deviance form tuned thresholds - possibly in an automatic fashion based on a set of defined triggers.

29 Dec 08

Study: our expectations influence visual input processing

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our unconscious expectations can help influence how visual information is processed.
Serences found that activity in the visual cortex did correspond to the probability that the appearance of a specific circle was likely to be associated with a reward, based on the past rewards obtained when that circle was chosen. As the author notes, this suggests that expectations of rewards influences the perception of visual information very early in the process:

05 Dec 08

Googling Security: book that opens your eyes to how much you disclose to Google - Boing Boing

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In slow, methodical steps, Conti builds his case: our complacency, Google's capacity for building compelling services, and the inadequacy of our browsers and other tools in alerting us to potential information disclosure have created a situation where Google ends up in possession of an alarming amount of information about us, our beliefs, our movements, our finances, our health, our employment and our social circles.

08 Nov 08

Antifascist Calling...: Are You a 'Violent Extremist'? FBI's Analytical Lexicon Lowers the Bar

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The new road map allows investigators to recruit informants, employ physical surveillance and conduct interviews in which agents disguise their identities in an effort to assess national security threats. FBI agents could pursue each of those steps without any single fact indicating a person has ties to a terrorist organization. (Carrie Johnson, "Guidelines Expand FBI's Surveillance Powers," The Washington Post, Saturday, October 4, 2008; A03)
More troubling still, the guidelines allow a person's race or ethnic background to be used as a factor in opening an investigation, a move the ACLU believes may institute racial profiling as a matter of policy. ("ACLU Condemns New FBI Guidelines," Press Release, October 3, 2008)
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- Would, let's say, the word of a paid informant or provocateur, be considered a "reasonable effort" that would then lead to labelling an individual as a member of a "terrorist cell" or "network"?
- The Washington Post reported that one "well-known antiwar activist from Baltimore, Max Obuszewski, was singled out in the intelligence logs released by the ACLU, which described a "primary crime" of 'terrorism-anti-government' and a 'secondary crime' of 'terrorism-anti-war protesters'.
- Such operations in fact, fit a discernible and troubling pattern that for decades has equated dissident political activity with "subversion

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