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I. Understanding Analytical Tools for Thinking About the Futures The further one seeks to gaze into the future, the less useful forecast techniques become. The forecast aims at “calculating or predicting (some future event or condition) usually as a result of study and analysis of available pertinent data.” 2 But the distant future is hardly a singular event. Rather, it is a landscape created through a combination of change and continuity, and so there is a high probability of departing fro...

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The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up Why The Intelligence Community Needs a Climate Change Task Force February 24, 2021 The Newsletter Kristin Wood, Sr. Climate Editor, The Cipher Brief Kristin Wood is the Senior Climate Editor for The Cipher Brief, a Cipher Brief expert, a non-resident fellow ...

Weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to dramatically upgrade his nuclear arsenal, the Biden administration is reviewing U.S. policy on North Korea. A reality check is overdue. The Trump administration’s headline-grabbing threats and summits were just new packaging for the decades-old approach of expecting Beijing’s help to pressure Pyongyang to surrender its nuclear program. This failed again, and North Korea’s threatening capabilities grew. The Biden administration should—...

My title may appear to be over the top, but hear me out. There was a time when the CIA, despite deep flaws and sloppy tradecraft, could be counted on to tell the President, regardless of political party, the truth. No longer. It is corrupt to the very top and now should be viewed as an enemy of the Republic. (Article by Larry Johnsonrepublished from TheGatewayPundit.com) The latest revelations from the Intelligence Community’s Analytic Ombudsman described in a memo from DNI John Ratcliffe i...

Motivation For TV White Space For Achieving the Broadband Gap December 21, 2020 The backbone of a knowledge society is a well-developed, well-maintained and affordable information infrastructure that allows access to, and manipulation of the dematerialized economy.Information is power, and before mobiles came along, access to data was limited for millions of Africans. Internet access is taken for granted by people in the developed world. However, the story in Africa is different since access is...

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in 2013. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool/File Photo Chinese negotiators surprised their European Union counterparts this week with key market-access concessions—following long months of intransigence—that could allow the two parties to reach an agreement on a historic investment deal by year’s end. Though EU officials haven’t yet revealed the details, one senior EU diplomat said the agreement goes beyond anythin...

The top ten risks and opportunities for 2021 It’s not being called the “year from hell” for nothing. The pandemic, the kind of “grey swan” event that is predicted but never pinpointed in time, finally came calling in 2020, aggravated by deepening political division and tribalism. International institutions continued to fragment, with the United States withdrawing from the World Health Organization right in the middle of the plague and engaging in obstructionist behavior in other mul...

The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World ProPublica 12/16/2020 by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Sergey Ponomarev ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article, the third in a series on global migration caused by climate change, is a result of a partnership between ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center. IT WA...

Trump but to putins propaganda? >> this is highly puzzling especially when the entire congress received warnings from somebody like dr. hill. remember, fiona hill is not a democrat. she is a trump appointee in his own white house. she is a career professional scholar, intelligence officer. she served as the national intelligence officer overseeing russia and eurasia for the national intelligence council. shes written literally the book on vladimir putin. so, i think you are getting, you know, th...