Post-Katrina New Orleans Myths & Off-Shore Drilling
03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, Geospatial, Graphics
- Drill rig
The Katrina Myth;
the Truth about a thoroughly unnatural disaster
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Center for Public Integrity project on recent oil spill (May 11)
The Center for Public Integrity partnered with ABC News to reveal the serious lack of government and industry preparedness for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Exclusively-obtained government reports about a series of spill exercises — one as recently as March 25 — warned of a lack of tools to contain a spewing oil well in deep water and of bureaucratic confusion in declaring a “Spill of National Significance” that activates a full federal response. The Center's report was part of ABC's Nightline program on Tuesday, and was prominently featured on The Blotter, a blog written by ABC News' chief investigative reporter, Brian Ross.
As part of the oil spill drill story, the Center experimented with an online library on our website to share investigative materials with readers. We posted the U.S. Coast Guard's after-action reports on past oil spill training exercises using DocumentCloud — an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.
Event: 8-12 June Narobi Africa Agriculture GIS Week 2010
01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, Africa, Geospatial
Jointly organized by the Consortium for Spatial Information (CSI) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), HarvestChoice, and the Agricultural Geospatial Commons (AGCommons) Program, the event builds on the success of last year’s meeting. However, AAGW 2010 has a broader scope and will be presented as a “GIS ShareFair”, complete with a market place that will include exhibitors, training sessions, thematic workshops, presentation sessions, CGIAR Spatial Science Sessions, the third gathering of WhereCampAfrica, and the unveiling of the AGCommons service bureau.
Search: obama interagency process graphic
Policies-Harmonization, Political, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, UncategorizedGreat search–no such thing. Obama received a concept for inter-agency governance placed under the door of his hotel room in Des Moines, Iowa (shown to the Secret Service detail first), but he and Plouffe and Axelrod blew off all attempts to prepare the Obama team to actually govern. Obama has Emanuel and Axelrod, nothing more, and they are destroying his Presidency. Pelosi, Reid, Panetta, and the rest of them are no help at all—there is not a strategic thought to be had among the whole bunch.
We've done what we could to put ideas on the table for the past 21 years, and it's like throwing pearls before swine–they eat the pearls and the public gets goose-shit.
Search: Strategic Analytic Model
Graphic: Whole of Government Intelligence
Graphic: Core Force for Whole of Government Operations
Graphic: OSINT DOSC MDSC as Kernel for Global Grid to Meet Stabilization & Reconstruction as Well as Whole of Government Policy, Acquisition, and Operations Support
Graphic: 9-11 Commission Open Source Agency
Search: smart nation intelligence reform electoral reform national security reform
Election 2008 Chapter: The Substance of Governance
Graphic: Human Terrain Team Self-Concept
Citizen-Centered
Phi Beta Iota: The Human Terrain Team (HTT) is a mutant created as a program management turf and self-aggrandizement endeavor. It lacks the special skills or defined mission relevance of an Interrogator-Translator Team (ITT) or a Civil Affairs roving liaison element. See the Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy.
Journal: Commentary on Moonlighting at the CIA
Government, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Leadership-Integrity
In a 1 February 2010 article adapted from the his forthcoming book, ‘Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage,' Eamon Javers wrote:
“In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.”
“The never-before-revealed policy comes to light as the CIA and other intelligence agencies are once again under fire for failing to “connect the dots,” this time in the Christmas Day bombing plot on Northwest Flight 253.”
“But sources familiar with the CIA’s moonlighting policy defend it as a vital tool to prevent brain-drain at Langley, which has seen an exodus of highly trained, badly needed intelligence officers to the private sector, where they can easily double or even triple their government salaries. The policy gives agents a chance to earn more while still staying on the government payroll.”
Commentary Below the Fold
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Graphic (3): Myth of Digital Democracy
Advanced Cyber/IO, Citizen-Centered, ICT-IT
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Below the Fold: Top News Sites, Top Political Sites
