[EM] Poindexterville - Project Genoa of Rumsfield (was Re: show us the ballots, mikeo

[Craig Carey]

At 02\12\25 05:13 -0800 Wednesday, Douglas Greene wrote:
 >I just wanted to remind the list of the problems of runoffs, even in three
 >candidate races.
 >
 >All a runoff does is ensure the least favored candidate won't win, not that
 >the CW will.  The CW may have been eliminated in the first round.
 >
 >And, Mike, why do you even bother responding to Don?  He's just here to trash
 >our motives and keep us from being effective advocates for superior methods.
 >
 >VT and NM are the next targets for the CVD and affiliated IRVings.  Time for
 >us to organize!
 >

What research would be used to assist that targeted opposing of the CVD's
own targeting ?.

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It looks to me like the "Total Information Awareness" proposal is intended to
be an attack against the law enforcement agencies, instead of against the
liberties of Americans. It was intended to be a way of getting a new DoD
alternative to Microsoft Powerpoint documents. A feature of government
departments is that staff in different agencies refuse to cooperate unless
positively misled. The URL at the bottom shows that the project is about
showy pictures : e.g. edited footage of a bank robber (some Nobel Laureate
economist that suggested that the economic direction of USA was not right).
(K. Arrow got onto Pres Nixon's list of enemies. (I never found out the
consequences of that)).



At 2002\12\24 01:43 -0800 Tuesday, Phil Agre wrote:

    Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 01:43:55 -0800
    From: Phil Agre <pagre at ucla.edu>
    To: "Red Rock Eater News Service" <rre at lists.gseis.ucla.edu>
    Subject: [RRE]pointers

 >Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
 >
 >RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
 >
 >
 >war
 >
 >US Propaganda in the Middle East: The Early Cold War Version
 >http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB78/
 >
 >design competition for the Pentagon memorial
 >http://memorialcompetition.pentagon.mil/
 >
 >
 >civil liberties and security
 >
 >report of advisory panel on security against weapons of mass destruction
 >http://www.rand.org/nsrd/terrpanel/terror4.pdf
 >http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcndaily2&story.id=20702
 >
 >extensive resources on terrorism risk and insurance
 >http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/CHRR/Roundtable/Notes.html
 >http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/CHRR/Roundtable/Kunreuther_Howard_Note.pdf
 >http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/CHRR/Roundtable/Skees_Jerry_Note.pdf
 >http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3168&sequence=0
 >http://www.nber.org/~confer/2002/insw02/woo.pdf
 >
 >precursor to the "total information awareness" program
 >(look at the hidden revision log to find out who might have written it)
 >http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/PPT/001213mscmc/Project_Genoa_White_Paper.doc
 >
...

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Summary Info:
    Title:  Project Genoa
    Author: John Poindexter
    Last Saved By: Bob Hannan
    File Size: 134,144 Bytes
    Total Editing Time: 2 Minutes

 >Project Genoa
 >
 >Executive Summary: Project Genoa is developing tools and a system
 >for collaborative crisis understanding and management for the
 >national security community including Commanders of the Unified
 >Commands.

 >Advanced multi-media presentation techniques allow and assist team
 >members to customize views and provide access to the information
 >packages and data sources.  An individual's work environment may
 >be tailored to specific needs. The creation of different briefings
 >and presentations for different audiences with different interests
 >and perspectives for rapid understanding of situations will be
 >enabled.
...
 >A prototype system demonstration of early components is available
 >on request at the DARPA Technology Integration Center.
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The word "briefings" presumably means "briefings", rather than say,
facts that could be checked. I guess that this is against the highest
levels of the law enforcement agencies. Maybe it would be to just used
to check to see if staff are pro-Executive or not, especially nearer to
the top of the agencies.



G. A. Craig Carey
Opposed to Poindexterville sullying the global record of achievements






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