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Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. In this week’s episode:
Story #1: America’s $40B Aid Package To Israel Is “Largest Ever” To Any Country
http://bit.ly/28OybrS
#MorningMonarchy: Susan Rice Promises Israel “Largest Military Aid Package In U.S. History”
http://bit.ly/28NRnkL
Israel Treating al-Qaida Fighters Wounded In Syria Civil War
http://bit.ly/1RbB9Gp
House OKs Ongoing Cluster Bomb Sales to Saudi Arabia, Saying a Ban Would ‘Stigmatize’ the Weapons
http://abcn.ws/1rtKYUD
Story #2: The Government of Mars Is Already Being Planned: A Glimpse at Martian Law
http://bit.ly/28ParA8
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress – FLNWO #33
http://bit.ly/28RFkGI
Story #3: Okinawa Residents Rally To Protest Crimes By U.S. Military Personnel
http://bit.ly/28Nu9Nw
Wikipedia: 1995 Okinawa Rape Incident
http://bit.ly/28Qb2X6
Parts Unknown: Okinawa’s Laid-Back Approach To Life
http://cnn.it/28RFqOy
#GoodNewsNextWeek: Radio Wins When All Else Fails + Confidence Poll & Music Camp
http://bit.ly/28OykLP
#NewWorldNextWeek Headlines: Makeup Pros, Actors Sought for VT Drill During DNC
http://bit.ly/28NRuNi
Officers “May Have” Shot Orlando Club Patrons
http://bit.ly/28OFA6j
The Orlando Shooting: An Open Source Investigation
http://bit.ly/25YGu83
Obama Wouldn’t Budge From Air Force One Until Game 7 Was Over
http://bit.ly/28PazPX
Zuckerberg Puts Tape Over Laptop Camera
http://bit.ly/28PazPX
Why The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
http://n.pr/1NeOCXy
Secretive $20B Startup Palantir Buying $225M Of Stock Back From Employees – In Exchange For Their Silence
http://bit.ly/28QOt39
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, Attended Bilderberg
http://bit.ly/28Wiqf0
The CIA-Backed Start-Up “Crystal Ball” That’s Taking Over Palo Alto (Jan. 14, 2016)
http://bit.ly/28OsqIY
Flashback: Swedish Minister Dies After Stabbing (Sept. 11, 2003)
http://bit.ly/28YLKDb
Join The @CorbettReport #Brexit Open Thread For All The Latest Referendum News
http://bit.ly/28Pblwi
Previous Episode: White Collar Robots Are Coming For Your Office Jobs
http://bit.ly/28YLOmq
Sorry guys, I got my cut out proxy alphabet soup terrorist boogeymen confused in this one. Of course Israel isn’t treating I-CIA-SIS fighters in their hospitals! That would be outrageous. They’re treating Al-CIA-da fighters in their hospitals! That’s totally different!
…Well, they’re probably treating ISIS, too, but at least we have the confirmation on the Qaeda fighters.
Government
From the Latin gubernare: to rule, control and mens, mentis: mind
Govern-ment = mind control
how did you miss this one—
Israeli Intel Chief: We Don’t Want ISIS Defeated in Syria
Says ISIS Faces Difficulty, Loss Would Put Israel in ‘Hard Position’
by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2016
In a speech at the Herzliya Conference, Israel’s military intelligence chief, Major General Herzi Halevy, took Israel’s long-standing position that it “prefers ISIS” over the Syrian government to a whole ‘nother level, declaring openly that Israel does not want to see ISIS defeated in the war.
Maj. Gen. Halevy expressed concern about the recent offensives against ISIS territory, saying that in the last three months the Islamist group was facing the “most difficult” situation since its inception and declaration of a caliphate.
Israeli officials have regularly expressed comfort with the idea of ISIS conquering the whole of Syria, saying they find it preferable to the Iran-allied government surviving the war. At the same time, they were never so overtly supportive of ISIS and its survival.
Halevy went on to express concern that the defeat of ISIS might mean the “superpowers” leaving Syria, saying this would put Israel “in a hard position” after being so opposed to the survival of the Syrian government.
He then said Israel will do “all we can so as to not find ourselves in such a situation,” suggesting that the Israeli military is looking at direct support for ISIS as a matter of policy, and not just rhetoric.
A few words about Palantir — I live in L.A. and a few months ago I met a programmer who worked there. We did tech talk for a while and she told me about her job and the company. She said they pull in data from as many sources as possible including Facebook. And they have staff who do nothing but find new sources of data. They do massive correlation analysis. I’d never heard of this company and went home and checked them out on Wikipedia. Below is part of the Wikipedia post on them. “One Ring to rule them all…”
“Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community and United States Department of Defense, fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor (responsible for the GhostNet and the Shadow Network investigation).
Other clients as of 2013 included DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, Special Operations Command, West Point, the Joint IED-defeat organization and Allies. However, at the time the US Army continued to use its own data analysis tool.[25] Also, according to TechCrunch, “The U.S. spy agencies also employed Palantir to connect databases across departments. Before this, most of the databases used by the CIA and FBI were siloed, forcing users to search each database individually. Now everything is linked together using Palantir.”[25]
U.S. military intelligence used the Palantir product to improve their ability to predict locations of improvised explosive devices in its war in Afghanistan. A small number of practitioners reported it to be more useful than the U.S. Army’s program of record, the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS-A). California Congressman Duncan D. Hunter complained of US DoD obstacles to its wider use in 2012.[39]
Palantir has also been reported to be working with various US police departments, for example accepting a contract in 2013 to help the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center build a controversial license plates database for California”