This is the Joshua Tree Report for May 28th, 2017, but posted on May 29th because it's a three day weekend and I got accordingly distracted.
General Data
The temperature in
Cody is 62° Fahrenheit and the weather is
fair. The temperature in
Kirkwall is 9° centigrade and the weather is
partly cloudy. The temperature in
Muscat is 41° centigrade and the weather is
sunny. A barrel of
crude oil is selling at $49.80, and $1.24 currently
exchanges for £1. This week's geospatial image is the
an escarpment near the Algeria-Libya-Niger tripoint.
In the News
Here are a few of this week's top stories.
Saudi Arabia Can't Win Its Own Battles (War is Boring)
US, Saudi agree arms deals worth almost $110 billion: White House (AFP)
US-Saudi arms mega deal looks to counter Iran (AFP)
Bahrain: 5 dead as security forces clash with 'outlaws' (al Jazeera)
Qatar says state news agency hacked after report cites emir criticising US (BBC News)
Qatar to 'prosecute perpetrators' of QNA hacking (al Jazeera)
Misrata Militants Are Winning the Air War in Southwest Libya (War is Boring)
Can OPEC prevent another oil price collapse? (al Jazeera)
Erdogan says EU must decide on Turkey membership (AFP)
After Bailing Out Assad, the Russian Military Risks a Syria Quagmire (War is Boring)
China backs security services after spy deaths report (AFP)
China flexes muscle in spy games against US (AFP)
Moody's downgrades China over surging debt fears (al Jazeera)
Beijing's new weapon in economic war: Chinese tourists (AFP)
China Wants to Sell Attack Helicopters to the World (War is Boring)
Russian Hackers Are Using "Tainted" Leaks to Sow Disinformation (Wired)
E-mails phished from Russian critic were “tainted” before being leaked (Ars Technica)
Florida Republican Who Teamed Up With Guccifer 2.0 Says Secretly Working With Russia Is NBD (Gizmodo)
Foreign fighters 'among Philippines militants' (BBC News)
Calm Down, Everyone. America is Still Committed to Europe’s Defense (War on the Rocks)
Trump budget cut would make UN work 'impossible' (al Jazeera)
Trump’s Bigger Fleet Is Dead in the Water (War is Boring)
More people infected by recent WCry worm can unlock PCs without paying ransom (Ars Technica)
Windows 7, not XP, was the reason last week’s WCry worm spread so widely (Ars Technica)
There's new evidence tying WCry ransomware worm to prolific hacking group (Ars Technica)
Jury out on North Korea link to ransomware attack (AFP)
Exclusive: North Korea's Unit 180, the cyber warfare cell that worries the West (Reuters)
How the APT32 Hacking Group Operates (Wired)
Think Before You Tweet In the Wake of an Attack (Wired)
How Facebook's tentacles reach further than you think (BBC News)
Italy's pollution-eating cement (al Jazeera)
Turning CO2 into stone in Iceland (al Jazeera)
First oil flows from redeveloped Schiehallion field (BBC News)
Birmingham University to open campus in the Gulf (BBC News)
Saudi Arabia: Ramadan moon sighting continues on Friday (al Jazeera)
Ramadan 2017: Why is it so important for Muslims? (al Jazeera)
Russian explorers find 'swamp' of Soviet money (BBC News)
Top Podcasts
These were my favorite podcasts from the last week.
What North Korea wants (War College)
Climate and Security: An Interview with Brig. Gen Gerry Galloway and Rear Adm. Dave Titley (SpyCast)
Episode 195 - Annual Policy Review - Making it Worthwhile (The Southern Fried Security Podcast)
Risky Business #455 -- What a mess (Risky Business)
D3E6 - Security Engineering (CyberSecStudy)
D4E1 - Communications & Network Security (CyberSecStudy)
D4E2 - Communications & Network Security (CyberSecStudy)
D4E3 - Communications & Network Security (CyberSecStudy)
D4E4 - Communications & Network Security (CyberSecStudy)
D4E5 - Communications & Network Security (CyberSecStudy)
Archive Notes: Prosthetics and the First World War (The National Archives)
Digitising MH 47 the Middlesex military service appeal tribunal (The National Archives)
America Prepares for War (The MacArthur Memorial)
Event: Passchendaele - A New History (King's College London War Studies Podcast)
The Americans S:5 | E:3 The Midges (The Americans Podcast by Slate Magazine)
The Americans S:5 | E:4 What's the Matter With Kansas? (The Americans Podcast by Slate Magazine)
The Americans S:5 | E:5 Lotus 1-2-3 (The Americans Podcast by Slate Magazine)
Course Report
ENG 199: I didn't do any reading.
PAC 130: Still basically suspended.
BA 480/CS 406: I listened to six CyberSecStudy CISSP preparation podcasts.
PI5502: I checked out a bunch of archival materials at the Qatar Digital Archive, and made a game-changing discovery.
HST 406 (OGHAP): I didn't do anything OGHAP-related last week.
Quote of the Week
"Argument, properly understood and subject always to charity, is merely a dialogue in which both parties intend to arrive at the truth, or at least end up closer to it."
- Joseph Pearce, C.S. Lewis & The Catholic Church
Great quote!
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