Twelfth Bough

Question: What is reverse engineering? Answer : Reverse engineering is the general process of analyzing a technology specifically to ascertain how it was designed or how it operates. ... The process of taking something apart and revealing the way in which it works is often an effective way to learn how to build a technology or make improvements to it.... In "black box" reverse engineering, systems are observed without examining internal structure, while in "white box" reverse engineering the inner workings of the system are inspected. Reverse engineers take things apart to learn how they work. This allows them to recreate the thing they deconstructed. We have argued before that reverse engineering is the primary function of think tanks. And since we run our own damn think tank, we thought we would reverse engineer the reverse engineers, which hopefully puts everything right side up again. In that post we noted that the Hudson Institute met with SAR...

At think tanks, experts figure out how to get from point A to point B. First they decide on point B, and then they reverse engineer how to arrive there from point A. When insiders do this, they call it "brainstorming" or "war games" or "simulations." When outsiders do this, they call it "terrorism." ^^^^^^^ The exposure of military plots in Turkey has finally gained momentum, after several weeks. This morning we learn of over 50 arrests of current and retired military officers in connection with the alleged Ergenekon coup plots: Sledgehammer and Cage. Former Naval Forces Adm. Özden Örnek kept detailed journals between 2000-2004 on some of the plans. Naturally, some of the plotting came under cover of think tanks , including the General Staff's Strategic Research and Study Center (SAREM), a foundation affiliated with the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).  The Sledgehammer plan, revealed in January by a Turkish newspaper, was more than sim...

Do the dogs and cows, fish and voles, have a choice? "I just was appalled that everything they were doing was just poisons. Everything had to do with death. Here was a food processing plant and everything had to do with the word death. I had to run back to my office at 2, 3 in the morning and I'd flip through the pages and everything would be -- under my hazmat books -- and everything would be death, death, death." Peter Kawaja, approximately 1:04 in the video, describing his discoveries between 1988-90 . "They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn." source As noted the other day, we wondered if certain powerful people had some sort of ANTIDOTE to all the radiation they don't quite acknowledge is spewing forth dangerously into our environment. And sure enough, there are a couple of drugs that we read about, and one is informally called Prussian Blue, making it a Good Thing. How convenient is that? We think it might be very convenie...

"The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not be realities but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything."  ~ Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain We learn about the attacks in Norway. Aangirfan summarizes the key points: 1. July 2011 -- Norway will end its involvement in Libya on 8/1/11. 2. March 2011 -- The Socialist Left party in Norway supports military action against Israel if Israel acts against Hamas in Gaza. 3. January 2011 -- Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs will recognize the Palestinian state once it is set up. "During the coming September and October, there will be a new sit...

Updated again, 2/29/12: Your typical expert with all her expert credentials, writing articles to helpfully shape public opinion, and getting paid handsomely no doubt for her expertise. So you can go over and read the article and ask yourself what is more likely: that the expert is NOT AWARE that the investigation, as detailed below in this post, found no evidence against Hezbollah and Iran, in which case she is not much of an expert; or that the expert is well aware but simply ignoring that information, and instead PIMPING THE NARRATIVE, in which case she is a mercenary. http://tinyurl.com/76syv2n "In March 1992, a pickup truck loaded with explosives was driven by a suicide bomber—presumed to be a Hezbollah member—into the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. The blast destroyed the embassy, a Catholic church and a nearby school. Four Israelis died, but the attack claimed 29 lives and wounded 242 people, most of whom were Argentine civilians and many of whom were childre...