If the Middle East is a confusing mish-mash of relationships then Yemen is the bush league child of the entire situation and the US relationship to it. I will enter the clear link rather than linking to it:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/08/why-is-the-us-aiding-and-enabling-saudi-arabias-genocidal-war-in-yemen/
Spokeo is an information tool presenting entity relationships. Wikipedia describes it as a tool presenting information about people. Relationships of a person to another person. Specific data element information about an individual person and extension to relationship to others based on connecting data elements.
"Strength" of connection between two and more people is not defined by a metric but is apparent by observation. When the connection is a business relationship money/asset/economics is therefore involved and strength or meaning might be considered relatively high. Money and its related asset/economic things has relationship to many other high level objects that are more conceptual. Power, politics, religion, philosophy, family, country, social standing, etc.
Maybe the old approach of "follow the money" might reveal the connection between an individual's relationship to another based money to further relationships based on other high level conceptual or real entities.
Maybe the Spokeo business plan is to expand into those other high level relationships but that is dangerous ground. More in the territory of the NSA where all information is sought and is fair game not only for the seeking but the deep meaning of its relationships.
"Who is on First?" requires a powerful information analysis tool to answer the question!
I would like to see how Spokeo would present that answer in a weighted relationship entity analysis not only of individual people but the entity analysis of higher level "aggregated groups" of people based on all significant relationships and their relative and/or competing/cooperating nature and strength.
Apply an analysis like that to the Middle East----if that was possible ----like not! -----and what would the Spokeo chart look like????
Perhaps I should submit a Freedom of Information request to the NSA to see it?
Maybe just Google for it.
In the old days before relational data bases any attempt to present a picture of information relationships resulted in a spaghetti chart. That of course is why relational data bases emerged as a better way to look at things. Mostly I think because it looked at "things" first rather than the actions that related them. Then by simply seeing the relationship between/among things with simple information rules and structures actions implementing them could be identified.
Of course I am an object oriented guy and that is the way I see "things". Organize and analyze the nature of things and the related actions fall into place. Then if the actions are not logically related to the nature of the thing (disconnected) then the entity definition of nature of the thing must be either be changed or the action implementing the relationship between/among the things involved must be changed.
Things and their related action (implementing interaction) is a fixed vs variable relationship. The dominant one -- Thing or Action -- drives the choice of which to change to bring them into logical true desired relationship. The catch is that often the logical true relationship is the private relationship that is intended by design to be different than its public relationship.
Media manipulation can do that at the macro level but once "things" and relationship to things at the granular level, like one person or one uniquely serialized and digitized dollar on a central cloud can be solidly linked at the most granular level there is a result: Macro level appearance of things and their actions is contrary to the micro level relationship of the entities.
The Information Mill continues to grind exceedingly small. The Information Age is on that trend line.
It is a good thing. We will increasingly see the dis-connection between the macro picture and the micro entity level relationship picture that creates it.
Better formalized information organization eyesight to see the detail lowest level entity relationships and associated implementing actions and build them structurally from the bottom up to either confirm or deny what we hear or are inclined to see from the top down view is what will change the ball game.
In my opinion the single most important micro to macro level entity having the determining role in the structure of our various social systems from the bottom to the top and their implementing relationships is money.
Structure a universal monetary system based on this to understand and manage our world:
A granular level uniquely identified digital debt free unit of value and uniquely identified entities (people and institutions, public or private) that transact with each other in exchanging ownership of each unit.
Record all transactions in a block chain establishing history of all monetary changes of ownership of money among transacting entities.
Go from there as we decide what are our values and how we govern accordingly individually and collectively.
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