RAND_RRA612-1.pdf
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RAND (Part 3): Bioterrorism, terrorism and the intelligence community (Drop 1 of 3)
Continuing our look at the RAND Corporation’s reports, in this 3 part drop we'll take a look at their Bioterrorism, terrorism and intelligence services reports.
What can we learn from them and what did they "know" in the past, that is pertinent to today?
1) Implications of the Pandemic for Terrorist Interest in Biological Weapons: Islamic State and al-Qaeda Pandemic Case Studies
2) Measuring Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP): Performance Capacities, Capabilities, and Sustainability Enablers for Biorisk Management and Biosurveillance
3) Developing Navy Capability to Recover Forces in Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazard Environments
4) Diversion of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Expertise from the Former Soviet Union: Understanding an Evolving Problem
5) Bioterrorism: Homeland Defense: The Next Steps
6) What Are Asymmetric Strategies?
Continuing our look at the RAND Corporation’s reports, in this 3 part drop we'll take a look at their Bioterrorism, terrorism and intelligence services reports.
What can we learn from them and what did they "know" in the past, that is pertinent to today?
1) Implications of the Pandemic for Terrorist Interest in Biological Weapons: Islamic State and al-Qaeda Pandemic Case Studies
2) Measuring Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP): Performance Capacities, Capabilities, and Sustainability Enablers for Biorisk Management and Biosurveillance
3) Developing Navy Capability to Recover Forces in Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazard Environments
4) Diversion of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Expertise from the Former Soviet Union: Understanding an Evolving Problem
5) Bioterrorism: Homeland Defense: The Next Steps
6) What Are Asymmetric Strategies?
RAND_MG475.pdf
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RAND (Part 3): Bioterrorism, terrorism and the intelligence community (Drop 2 of 3)
1) The Global tech revolution 2020: A look at the future of Nano, bio, information and it's social implications (summary)
2) The Global Technology Revolution 2020, In-Depth Analyses (more detailed version of above doc)
3) Mapping White Identity Terrorism and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism: A Social Network Analysis of Online Activity
4) Counter-Radicalization Bot Research Using Social Bots to Fight Violent Extremism
5) Paths to Destruction Corporation A Group Portrait of America’s Jihadists: Comparing Jihadist Travelers with Domestic Plotters
6) Return and Expand? The Finances and Prospects of the Islamic State After the Caliphate
7) Homeland Security National Risk Characterization Risk Assessment Methodology
8) The Terrorist Diaspora After the Fall of the Caliphate
1) The Global tech revolution 2020: A look at the future of Nano, bio, information and it's social implications (summary)
2) The Global Technology Revolution 2020, In-Depth Analyses (more detailed version of above doc)
3) Mapping White Identity Terrorism and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism: A Social Network Analysis of Online Activity
4) Counter-Radicalization Bot Research Using Social Bots to Fight Violent Extremism
5) Paths to Destruction Corporation A Group Portrait of America’s Jihadists: Comparing Jihadist Travelers with Domestic Plotters
6) Return and Expand? The Finances and Prospects of the Islamic State After the Caliphate
7) Homeland Security National Risk Characterization Risk Assessment Methodology
8) The Terrorist Diaspora After the Fall of the Caliphate
RAND_PE228.pdf
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RAND (Part 3): Bioterrorism, terrorism and the intelligence community (Drop 3 of 3)
1) A Strategy to Counter ISIL as a Transregional Threat
2) Secrecy in U.S. National Security Why a Paradigm Shift Is Needed
3) An American Way of Political Warfare: A Proposal
4) Moving to the Unclassified How the Intelligence Community Can Work from Unclassified Facilities
5) Exploring America’s Role In A New And Turbulent World
6) Blinders, Blunders, and Wars: What America and China Can Learn?
7) Reducing risk in an uncertain world: Annual Report 2013–2014
8) Fixing Leaks Assessing The Department Of Defense's Approach To Preventing and Deterring Unauthorised Disclosures
1) A Strategy to Counter ISIL as a Transregional Threat
2) Secrecy in U.S. National Security Why a Paradigm Shift Is Needed
3) An American Way of Political Warfare: A Proposal
4) Moving to the Unclassified How the Intelligence Community Can Work from Unclassified Facilities
5) Exploring America’s Role In A New And Turbulent World
6) Blinders, Blunders, and Wars: What America and China Can Learn?
7) Reducing risk in an uncertain world: Annual Report 2013–2014
8) Fixing Leaks Assessing The Department Of Defense's Approach To Preventing and Deterring Unauthorised Disclosures
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Some Personal Ghost Stories (1 of 3)
Seeing as it's Halloween, I thought I'd tell you all a few of the personal experiences I've had during my time as a paranormal investigator and that has happened to me in a house we used to live in, involving my son too?
So sit back, relax with a cuppa, turn out the lights, because it's time to get your spook on:
This first story involves my son, Will and was something I wrote for a paranormal page, that I used to have, back in 2013:
A few months ago my 3 year old son, wills, was having problems sleeping. He just wouldn't sleep right through till the morning, always waking up around the same time, between 3 and 4 am, straight into a full blown tantrum, no matter what time we'd got him to sleep that night and he would always take a good 2-3 hours to 1st calm him down and then get him back off to sleep. Then waking up again around 8, or 9 and being unwilling to sleep again until very late. After about 2-3 weeks of this, with sleep deprivation taking its toll on us, myself, kat and wills were, understandably, starting to get a lil catty with each other (looking back on it now, it would've probably been hilarious to see 2 parents, arguing with their toddler? A toddler, i might add, who infuriatingly refuses to communicate with them normally, in any way shape or form. But rather he insists upon very cheekily repeating and verbatim, everything they're saying to him!
e.g:
Us: "Wills! Stop that!",
Wills: "Stop it!",
Us: "No Will! We're saying stop that to you! Meaning, you stop being naughty! So stop that right now!",
Wills runs off into the kitchen giggling, with us in hot pursuit shouting,
"Wills! Where do you think you're goin? Come back here Mr!",
Wills: "Where goin? Come ere! Come ere! Stoppy now!", followed by him being in absolute hysterics, as he hides under the kitchen table, shouting
"come ere and stoppy now" , between bouts of laughter!
Like i said, under the circumstances, at the time, not all that funny! But looking, back hilarious! Lmfao!
Anyway, you get the idea? That's just a small example of how each night transpired, as he got more and more enjoyment out of torturing us!
Needless to say, it was winding us up to no end, causing us to tell him off more and thus creating a vicious circle! Much to his great amusement, of course! Lol...)
But this one particular night, i dunno whether he was just exhausted, from weeks of this? (i know we were) or, it was the calm before the storm? (though strongly suspect both reasons could've been working in tandem!) But, this one particular night, without any playing up, or any fuss whatsoever, he easily drifted off to sleep! Foolishly, believing our luck to be in, kat and I prepared to settle down for a well deserved, decent nights sleep as I carefully carried wills up to his room. As usual, i tucked him in and then turned on his winnie the pooh night light/ lullaby player,
"Goodnight baby!",
it began, softly, in the voice from the disney cartoon, "I think i shall sing a sleepy song!", it continued before softly singing twinkle, twinkle, little star.
It didn't take too long after that for kat and i to pass out, mostly due to pure exhaustion, downstairs.
That short lived serenity, was violently shattered when, bang on cue, we were awoken by wills in full blown tantrum mode and was screaming the place down.
We'd truly had enough by this point. So, instead of us going up to get him, all he got from us were, ever angrier shouts from downstairs telling him to get to bed and just go to sleep, but it just fell on deaf ears, because with each time we shouted up at him, he just got louder. So when that didn't work, we turned to going up and just putting him in bed (the previous nights episode of Supernanny, was to thank for that!) a method we were sure would have the desired effect! Alas, that just made things worse (That'll teach us to believe the advice of a woman who's never had kids!)
Seeing as it's Halloween, I thought I'd tell you all a few of the personal experiences I've had during my time as a paranormal investigator and that has happened to me in a house we used to live in, involving my son too?
So sit back, relax with a cuppa, turn out the lights, because it's time to get your spook on:
This first story involves my son, Will and was something I wrote for a paranormal page, that I used to have, back in 2013:
A few months ago my 3 year old son, wills, was having problems sleeping. He just wouldn't sleep right through till the morning, always waking up around the same time, between 3 and 4 am, straight into a full blown tantrum, no matter what time we'd got him to sleep that night and he would always take a good 2-3 hours to 1st calm him down and then get him back off to sleep. Then waking up again around 8, or 9 and being unwilling to sleep again until very late. After about 2-3 weeks of this, with sleep deprivation taking its toll on us, myself, kat and wills were, understandably, starting to get a lil catty with each other (looking back on it now, it would've probably been hilarious to see 2 parents, arguing with their toddler? A toddler, i might add, who infuriatingly refuses to communicate with them normally, in any way shape or form. But rather he insists upon very cheekily repeating and verbatim, everything they're saying to him!
e.g:
Us: "Wills! Stop that!",
Wills: "Stop it!",
Us: "No Will! We're saying stop that to you! Meaning, you stop being naughty! So stop that right now!",
Wills runs off into the kitchen giggling, with us in hot pursuit shouting,
"Wills! Where do you think you're goin? Come back here Mr!",
Wills: "Where goin? Come ere! Come ere! Stoppy now!", followed by him being in absolute hysterics, as he hides under the kitchen table, shouting
"come ere and stoppy now" , between bouts of laughter!
Like i said, under the circumstances, at the time, not all that funny! But looking, back hilarious! Lmfao!
Anyway, you get the idea? That's just a small example of how each night transpired, as he got more and more enjoyment out of torturing us!
Needless to say, it was winding us up to no end, causing us to tell him off more and thus creating a vicious circle! Much to his great amusement, of course! Lol...)
But this one particular night, i dunno whether he was just exhausted, from weeks of this? (i know we were) or, it was the calm before the storm? (though strongly suspect both reasons could've been working in tandem!) But, this one particular night, without any playing up, or any fuss whatsoever, he easily drifted off to sleep! Foolishly, believing our luck to be in, kat and I prepared to settle down for a well deserved, decent nights sleep as I carefully carried wills up to his room. As usual, i tucked him in and then turned on his winnie the pooh night light/ lullaby player,
"Goodnight baby!",
it began, softly, in the voice from the disney cartoon, "I think i shall sing a sleepy song!", it continued before softly singing twinkle, twinkle, little star.
It didn't take too long after that for kat and i to pass out, mostly due to pure exhaustion, downstairs.
That short lived serenity, was violently shattered when, bang on cue, we were awoken by wills in full blown tantrum mode and was screaming the place down.
We'd truly had enough by this point. So, instead of us going up to get him, all he got from us were, ever angrier shouts from downstairs telling him to get to bed and just go to sleep, but it just fell on deaf ears, because with each time we shouted up at him, he just got louder. So when that didn't work, we turned to going up and just putting him in bed (the previous nights episode of Supernanny, was to thank for that!) a method we were sure would have the desired effect! Alas, that just made things worse (That'll teach us to believe the advice of a woman who's never had kids!)
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