Online Intelligence Training

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Bottom Line Up Front: I’m creating online intelligence courses based on the ICAC, HUMINT, OPSEC, and Counterintelligence courses.  To roll out the Culper Institute for Intelligence & Security (CIIS), I’m offering all courses at 25% off now through August.  Use code 25GA, and as a reader you’ll get 25% off all our current courses.  On 02 September, we’ll publish IA 101: Introduction to Intelligence Analysis (which is free), and then publish at least one new course each month after that.  You can decide which courses sound interesting to you, and get quality intelligence training at a very affordable cost.  Find out more below…  You can save your seat for this intelligence training here.

One thing I’ve learned about writing is that it’s very difficult to teach anyone to do something important through writing a book or article.  A large part of the reason why we started the Culper Institute is to better facilitate the learning process because information is not knowledge and reading isn’t necessarily learning.  I can only run so many courses, and it costs a great deal of time and money for students to travel, to stay, to eat, etc.  So by doing these courses online, the plan is to fit in more knowledge and training for less money and time.  (These courses, however, cannot replace in-person training.  This is just a workable solution to a critical problem.)

I sat down and thought, “If I had to teach a team of burgeoning intelligence analysts ten skills and send them on their way, what would I teach them?”

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Durables Goods, Excluding Bumper Boeing Orders, Suffer Biggest Drop Of 2014

The headline print of a record-breaking 22.6% gain – smashing the 8.0% expectation – hides the extremely obvious factor of the largest civilian aircraft orders (an entirely one-off non-repeatable factor). Durables ex Transportation collapsed from a 3% gain to a 0.8% drop – the biggest drop in 2014, missing expectations by the most in 8 months. Perhaps even more concerning, non-defense ex-aircraft new orders dropped 0.5% (missing expectations of a 0.2% gain).

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But the media reported a record breaking increase. Initially. The articles reporting the record breaking increase have been removed or modified from the news stream. Tired of smoke and mirrors?

David DeGerolamo

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Former Marine Left With ‘Life-Threatening Injuries’ After Being Warned Restaurant Wasn’t a Safe Place for Whites

Obama’s America. Imagine where we will be as racial tensions continue to escalate. The only way to destroy America is to divide it within.

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The police chief in West Point, Mississippi, says he expects an arrest soon in what police are investigating as an aggravated assault that left Ralph Weems IV, a 32-year-old former Marine and Iraq war veteran, hospitalized with a brain injury.

Investigators are reviewing surveillance video from one of two restaurants where police were called early Saturday, Chief Tim Brinkley told The Associated Press on Monday. He said they’re also trying to find out why it took so long for anyone to call 911 about the fight outside the Huddle House

David Knighten of West Point says he and Weems, who also lives in the city of 12,300, apparently were followed to the Huddle House from a Waffle House where Weems had argued with other patrons.

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Experimental U.S. hypersonic weapon destroyed seconds after launch


A hypersonic weapon being developed by the U.S. military was destroyed four seconds after its launch from a test range in Alaska early on Monday after controllers detected a problem with the system, the Pentagon said.

The weapon is part of a program to create a missile that will destroy targets anywhere on Earth within an hour of getting data and permission to launch.

The mission was aborted to ensure public safety, and no one was injured in the incident, which occurred shortly after 4 a.m. EDT at the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, said Maureen Schumann, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Defense Department.

The incident caused an undetermined amount of damage to the launch facility, Schumann said.

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Shoot on sight’ orders given to contain Ebola outbreak

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As panic grows from the current Ebola outbreak, which began in Africa and continues to ravage scores of people on the continent, authorities are becoming more resolute in preventing its spread, even adopting extreme measures that involve armed force.

As reported by Sky News, the armed forces of Liberia have been given orders by the government to shoot people trying to cross illegally from the border of neighboring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of the disease.

The report said that soldiers stationed in Grand Cape Mount County, which borders Sierra Leone, and in neighboring Bomi County, were to “shoot on sight” anyone trying to cross the border into Liberia, according to a local newspaper, the Daily Observer, which quoted deputy army chief of staff Col. Eric Dennis.

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Judicial Watch: Lerner emails aren’t missing


A conservative group suing the IRS said Monday that the Obama administration has acknowledged that former agency official Lois Lerner’s emails are recoverable.

Judicial Watch, which says it was among the groups that the IRS improperly scrutinized, said that Justice Department attorneys told the group late last week that the government backed up all emails in case of catastrophe.

The government lawyers added that the problem was not that the emails couldn’t be found, but that the back-up system was too onerous to search, Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s president, said Monday.

“This is a jaw-dropping revelation. The Obama administration had been lying to the American people about Lois Lerner’s missing emails,” Fitton said in a statement, adding that the group would bring the government’s statements up with Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is presiding over the group’s lawsuit.

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Soon-to-Be-Released Clinton Records Show Attempts to Shackle Militia

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Files scheduled to be released from Clinton White House records will show his efforts to shackle militias and set up a “strict licensing system” for paramilitary groups, Politico reports.

In other words, gun control was to be complemented–and in places, supplemented–by people control.

According to Politico, the release is certain to raise the ire of citizens already concerned about “enhancing government surveillance powers and regulating armed groups of U.S. citizens.”

Upon release, the files are expected to show that Clinton’s plans ran into trouble when his own attorneys “feared that some of the proposals could violate the Constitution.” The files are also expected to show how then-adviser Dick Morris found a way that Clinton “could press forward against the militias.”

In the end, Clinton did not press forward with his desire to shackle militias or impose a “strict licensing system” on paramilitary groups. But he “did propose greater legal authority to obtain phone records … as well as hotel, airline, and bus details” relating to militias and paramilitary groups.

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Only A Fool Would Be in the Stock Market

So the stock market hit a new record today. But no one is buying stocks. Except the central banks with fiat currencies.

David DeGerolamo

S&P Makes History On Lowest Volume Of The Year

As we noted early on, by the time the cash markets opened this morning, the narrative of compliant Kuroda and drug-peddling Draghi had been painted as worth more than a yellowing Yellen’s hawkish comments. And so it was that stocks, despite weak macro data this morning in the US – bad news is great news – surged as cash markets opened and tagged S&P 2,000 for the first time ever. However, once Europe closed, that exuberance faded in stocks.Treasuries rallied (30Y closed -2bps) with the front-end weakening very modestly. USD strength (on notable EUR weakness) sent oil and precious metals modestly lower on the day but Copper had a good day (+0.6%). Today was the lowest S&P futures (non-holiday) trading of the year as the Nasdaq rose for the 9th day in a row.

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Liberian medic treated with experimental Ebola drug dies

A Liberian doctor treated with experimental American anti-Ebola serum ZMapp has died, a minister in the west African nation said on Monday.

Abraham Borbor had been improving but died on Sunday night, Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown told AFP.

“He was showing signs of progress but he finally died. The government regrets this loss and extends its condolences to the bereaved family,” Brown said.

Two other health workers receiving the serum are still in treatment, said the minister, adding that there were “signs of hope”.

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Unprecedented number of medical staff infected with Ebola

The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa is unprecedented in many ways, including the high proportion of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers who have been infected.

To date, more than 240 health care workers have developed the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, and more than 120 have died.

Ebola has taken the lives of prominent doctors in Sierra Leone and Liberia, depriving these countries not only of experienced and dedicated medical care but also of inspiring national heroes.

Several factors help explain the high proportion of infected medical staff. These factors include shortages of personal protective equipment or its improper use, far too few medical staff for such a large outbreak, and the compassion that causes medical staff to work in isolation wards far beyond the number of hours recommended as safe.

In the past, some Ebola outbreaks became visible only after transmission was amplified in a health care setting and doctors and nurses fell ill. However, once the Ebola virus was identified and proper protective measures were put in place, cases among medical staff dropped dramatically.

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Civil Infrastructure Intelligence

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by Sam Culper

One of the greatest things you can give a unit is intelligence on a target.  Intelligence always drives the fight.

Today, we’ll briefly look at civil infrastructure and some opportunities for intelligence analysis of buildings.  Urban operations are always more complex.  There are more people, potentially more threats – one of the things learned in Vietnam and nearly every war since is that a civilian bystander can turn into an armed attacker in a moment’s notice – and the environment is 3D.

We’re not just looking for threats along the horizon or over the next hill, but now there are rooftops and windows that have traditionally hidden snipers and RPGs.  On my second deployment I took over the Countersniper/Sniper Defeat team and was tasked with providing intelligence to countersniper teams.  One day, I requested imagery on a compound where two sniper events had taken place.  By this time, Sunni snipers had taken up hitting softer targets like Iraqi Army (IA) units because of the slow reaction time for cordon and search.  Still, IA units were taking casualties from this invisible threat.  We wanted to put a countersniper team in an adjacent area to watch for one of these snipers setting up.  Typically, they’d get on a rooftop early in the morning and hide under a blanket all day until the IA came through on a patrol or set up a vehicle checkpoint (VCP).  At any rate, long story short, I apparently spent $25,000 (your money, not mine) for that imagery and actually captured a blob that was likely that sniper.  (You’d think that for $25k, I could get a picture in color.)

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There is an 800% Higher Probably Americans Will be Killed by Police Than by a Terrorist

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The Ferguson incident has exposed the underbelly of the United States and now everyone is starting to pay attention that there is a higher risk of being killed by police even when they chase or shoot at people who need not be you. The risk is 800% greater that you will be killed by POLICE rather than a terrorist. The Economist has reported the death by police so far are ZERO in Japan and Britain, 8 in Germany and 409 in America.

But that is not the half of it. Since 911, the police have killed more people than the terrorists are claimed to have done in those attacks. It is getting to the point that if you see a policeman in the USA, you better try to move away. This is no longer the ’50s. If there is a cat in the tree, my bet they will try to shoot it first but probably take down the tree with the hail of bullets. Police seem to think they have the right to play soldier and war games on the streets of America.

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France In “Political Turmoil” After Hollande Unexpectedly Dissolves Government

Earlier this morning, those expecting an out of control European deflationary tumble got one step closer to their goal when French President Francois Hollande asked his prime minister, who only assumed the post a few short months ago in March, to form a new government, following what Reuters reported was him “looking to impose his will on the cabinet after rebel leftist ministers had called for an economic policy U-turn” spearheaded by economy minister Arnaud Montebourg demanding an end to French “austerity.” The Guardian is somewhat more direct and to the point: “France has entered uncharted political waters after the prime minister, Manuel Valls, presented his government’s resignation amid a political crisis triggered by his maverick economy minister who called for an end to austerity policies imposed by Germany.”

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Judge Jeanine – Obama Response to James Foley Beheading is the Last Straw

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0H3MyyNoF4

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Stunning Footage Of Israeli Strike Leveling 12-Story Gaza Building

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