The Ultimate Hack: Re-inventing Intelligence to Re-engineer Earth

It is for me a huge honor to be invited to deliver the counterbalancing view within this distinguished gathering of counter-terrorism experts. 1 Let me begin by emphasizing what I consider to be the " three strikes " or in international terms, the " side-out " of government counter-terrorism thinking today. STRIKE ONE: Terrorism is a symptom, not a root cause or threat. Going after Al Qaeda has nothing to do with the more threatening fact that a corrupt Saudi monarchy embraces infidels at the same time that it is destroying its own commonwealth and sponsoring Wahhabism worldwide. STRIKE TWO: No government is trained, equipped, nor organized to understand, much less defeat, terrorism in detail. Although the United Nations (UN) has recently discovered Coherence, with the implementation meme of " Deliver as One, " and the US Government claims to be interested in Whole of Government operations, neither is actually real (yet). STRIKE THREE: Earth is at a tipping point, with multiple catastrophic possibilities, all of them interacting in complex unpredictable ways. In this context, terrorism is the canary in the coal mine, not the lethal atmosphere itself.