Today, WikiLeaks has started releasing some 5 million internal e-mails (obtained through Anonymous) of Stratfor, a “subscription-based provider of geopolitical analysis” known for massively selling its services to corporate actors, various branches of (mainly US) government and beyond. According to their website, “Stratfor uses a unique, intelligence-based approach to gathering information via rigorous open-source monitoring [...]
Lately, there has been quite some public outcry about German domestic intelligence agencies failing in tracking down a neo-Nazi terrorist cell for more than a decade. As if that wasn’t enough, it has come to light that German domestic intelligence has also put one third of the Left Party fraction in the German Parliament under [...]
VI. Historical examples which have been attributed “triggering events” 14 July 1789: The people of Paris storm the Bastille prison in order to oppose absolute monarchy and to arm themselves. – 26 August 1789: The National Constituent Assembly publishes the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, monarchy is abolished and popular [...]
V. What Do Triggering Events Trigger? “The general idea is that we have a stock of primitive events, and a set of operators by which events can be combined to produce new events.” ([GALTON] p. 328) While single events remain fixed or static items in spacetime (at a particular observation point), the undergoing changes or [...]
