Buffett signed a promise they called the "Giving Pledge", in which
they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over
the course of time, and invited others among the wealthy to donate 50%
or more of their wealth to charity.
real nice guys, eh?
On Jan 16, 8:20 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> ** **
>
> http://geekyroom.com/2011/11/05/cia-open-source-center-analyze-twitte...
> ****
>
> *CIA's Open Source Center Analyze Twitter in Real Time*****
>
> Posted In Danger Room <http://geekyroom.com/category/danger-room/>,
> Defense<http://geekyroom.com/category/danger-room/defense/>,
> Social Media <http://geekyroom.com/category/internet-media/social-media/>,
> Video <http://geekyroom.com/category/video-2/> - By *GeekMan
> <http://geekyroom.com/author/GeekMan/>*On Saturday, November 5th, 2011 ****
>
> *The Washington Post's special reporter, Associated Press, today, reports
> that CIA's open source center actively follows and monitors about 5 million
> tweets a day, in several foreign languages, coming from across the globe.
> The information, cross-referenced with Facebook posts, phone calls, and
> reporting by regional media outlets feeds a real-time intelligence report
> that reaches the White House*.****
>
> [image: Description: cid:part1.03020304.05060...@yahoo.com]****
>
> It was called *open-source intelligence* (OSINT), a form of intelligence
> collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring
> information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce
> actionable intelligence. It is distinguished from research in that it
> applies the process of intelligence to create tailored knowledge supportive
> of a specific decision by a specific individual or group.****
>
> It's nothing to do with open-source software; in the intelligence
> community, the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as
> opposed to covert or classified sources).****
>
> Unlike other intelligent disciplines that collect classified information of
> opponent, the chief difficulty in OSINT is in identifying relevant,
> reliable sources from the vast amount of publicly available information.
> However, this is not as great a challenge for those who know how to access
> local knowledge and how to leverage human experts who can create new
> tailored knowledge on the fly.****
>
> Associated Press' report, today, says that "those with a masters' degree in
> library science and multiple languages, especially those who grew up
> speaking another language, make a powerful open source officer."****
>
> Before the existence of OSINT, there was Foreign Broadcast Information
> Service (FBIS), established in 1941, It was the government's primary
> open-source unit, transcribing and translating foreign broadcasts. It
> absorbed the Defense
> <http://geekyroom.com/category/danger-room/defense/>Department's Joint
> Publications Research Service (JPRS), which did a
> similar function with foreign printed materials, including newspapers,
> magazines, and technical journals.****
>
> He was General Alfred M. Gray, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps, in
> 1988, who called for a redirection of US intelligence away from the
> collapsing Soviet Union and toward non-state actors and Third World zones
> of instability.****
>
> Following on a recommendation by *9/11 Commission*, in November 2005 the
> Director of National Intelligence announced the creation of the *DNI Open
> Source Center*, appointed Douglas Naquin as Director of the center. An
> open source center that established to collect information available from
> "the Internet, databases, press, radio, television,
> video<http://geekyroom.com/category/video-2/>,
> geospatial data, photos and commercial imagery." In addition to collecting
> openly available information, it would train analysts to make better use of
> this information.****
>
> According to Associated Press' report, "the center had started
> focusing on social
> media <http://geekyroom.com/category/internet-media/social-media/> after
> watching the Twitter-sphere rock the Iranian regime during the Green
> Revolution of 2009, when thousands protested the results of the elections
> that put Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in power."****
>
> Back in March 2011, the Onion News Network
> reported<http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-...>that
> "
> *CIA's invention of Facebook has saved the government millions of dollars*,"
> and dubbed "*Facebook first conceived as part of Patriot Act*", pointed
> Mark Zuckerberg as the Director of CIA's Facebook Program. It also shown
> the Deputy CIA's Director, Christopher Sartinsky, was saying that "It is
> true that Facebook is CIA's dream come true", the first internet
> application that is able to control the entire population. ****
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZVIKCX6OpTs****
>
> On the same FactZone's report, Brook Alvarez asked her respondent about any
> possibilities of CIA make use of Twitter to cut its operation cost even
> more. The 3 respondents said they have no clue just yet.****
>
> But DNI Open Source Center's Director, Douglas Naquin, today, is
> reportedly<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ap-exclusive-whos-following-yo...>has
> confirmed his agents actively follows and monitors about 5 million
> tweets a day—in several foreign languages, coming from across the globe.****
>
> Tags: CIA <http://geekyroom.com/tag/cia/>, Open Source
> Center<http://geekyroom.com/tag/open-source-center/>,
> OSINT <http://geekyroom.com/tag/osint/>,
> Twitter<http://geekyroom.com/tag/twitter/>
> ****
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