OSS CEO Announces 15th International Conference on Information Operations (IO), Open Source Intelligence

OSS CEO Announces 15th International Conference on Information Operations (IO), Open Source Intelligence

October 17, 2006

(OSINT), and Peacekeeping Intelligence (PKI)

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Roberto
David de Steele y Vivas, former spy, founder of the USMC
Intelligence Command, #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction,
and CEO of OSS.Net, Inc., is pleased to announce the 15th
international conference on Information Operations (IO),
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and Peacekeeping
Intelligence (PKI).  Known as IOP `07, this event will take
place 14-20 January 2007 in Virginia, just west of
Washington, D.C.

    Complete information about the conference, including
the final schedule, speaker photographs and biographies,
and a registration form offering substantial discounts for
those who register early, can be viewed at
http://www.oss.net/IOP .  Four portions of the conference
are free but require pre-registration.  Exhibits are open
to all.

    This year the conference addresses the ten threats
identified by the High Level Threat Panel of the United
Nations.  Speakers will discuss what can be known about
these threats using only open sources of information, and
how information can be applied to reduce or eliminate these
threats.  Other speakers will address the sins of U.S.
foreign policy, the semantics of belief systems in war
& peace, global collaboration across all boundaries,
the future of information operations, performance economics
& reality-based budgeting, the Lucifer Principle and the
global brain, the Information Economy Meta Language (IEML),
the role of librarians as alternatives to spies, free open
source software for governments at all levels and also
non-governmental organizations, and finally why lies tend
to bury the truth, and what organizations and individuals
everywhere can do to achieve peace and prosperity through
the wise exploitation of information in all languages, all
the time.

    Among the featured iconoclastic speakers are Greg
Palast on democracy in danger from lies; Webster Tangley on
9/11 as synthetic terror made in the USA; Michael Hiam on
"Who the Hell Are We Fighting," and Thomas Naylor
with Rob Williams making the case for the non-violent
secession of Vermont in the face of federal failure to
provide for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in
today's world.

    The conference concludes with briefings on Serious
Games as educational and decision-support tools, on the
State of the Future, and on the future of intelligence.

    Additional useful information is at the following: 

    http://www.oss.net
    http://www.oss.net/BASIC
    http://www.oss.net/LIBRARY
    http://www.oss.net/FAILURE
    http://www.oss.net/HOPE
    http://www.oss.net/MIOC
    http://www.oss.net/IO

    For more information, please contact:

     Robert Steele 
     OSS.Net, Inc.
     Tel: [phone]

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