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Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon. In October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-way plane ticket from Cairo to Miami, where he rented a condo.

Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon

Over the previous few weeks, he’d made a number of large withdrawals from a Russian bank account and placed repeated calls to a few people in Syria. More recently, he rented a truck, drove to Orlando, and visited Walt Disney World by himself. As numerous security videos indicate, he did not frolic at the happiest place on earth. He spent his day taking pictures of crowded plazas and gate areas. None of Fikri’s individual actions would raise suspicions. The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a speeding ticket, which triggers an alert in the CIA’s Palantir system. As the CIA analyst starts poking around on Fikri’s file inside of Palantir, a story emerges. Fikri isn’t real—he’s the John Doe example Palantir uses in product demonstrations that lay out such hypothetical examples. The antifraud tools of the time could not keep up with the crooks. Michael E. Charles Morgan; The word "Serenity"

Novels The Gunroom (1919) My Name is Legion (1925) Portrait in a Mirror (1929) The Fountain (1932) Sparkenbroke (1936) The Voyage (1940) The Empty Room (1941) The Judge's Story (1947) The River Line (1949) A Breeze of Morning (1951) Challenge to Venus (1957) Plays The Flashing Stream (1938) The River Line (1952) The Burning Glass (1953) Essays Epitaph on George Moore (1935) The House of Macmillan (1943) Reflections in a Mirror (1944) Reflections in a Mirror (1946) (Second Series)Liberties of the Mind (1951) A Writer and his World (1960) (posthumous selection) Poetry 'To America' (1917) 'Ode to France' (1944) A little-known essay: At the heart of the unease of the world as it moves on into the second half of the twentieth century is our sense that the tragedy in which we live is, as tragedy, bad.

Charles Morgan; The word "Serenity"

The words serene and serenity have almost vanished, and yet the idea they express has not ceased to exist. Lucid. Therefore . . . Ah! Now let us consider other great words that are sick. The 48 Laws of Power. Background[edit] Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history.[5] In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers.[4][8] Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment.[4] Although Greene was unhappy in his current job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky.[10] However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War.[10] Greene would follow Caesar's example and write the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power.[10] He would note this as the turning point of his life.[10]

The 48 Laws of Power