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Berto Jongman: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL RELEASES GLOBAL TRENDS REPORT

  NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL RELEASES GLOBAL TRENDS REPORT WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Intelligence Council (NIC) today released the seventh edition of its quadrennial Global Trends report. Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World is an unclassified assessment of the forces and dynamics that the NIC anticipates are likely to shape the national security environment …

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Anthony Judge: 30 Disabling Global Trends (Checklist)

Checklist of 30 disabling trends Systemic erosion of confidence and trust, most notably with regard to: Politicians, with a vested interest in ensuring their re-election at any cost Science, with a vested interest in justifying costly research Professions, with their vested interest in overselling on the basis of their authoritative advice Business (especially the financial …

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Round-Up: Global Trends 2030 at PBI/PBI

2011 Robert Steele: Global Trends 2030 – Gaps + RECAP 2012 Global Trends 2030: Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts Graphic: Global Trends 2030 Elements of Country Power Graphic: Global Trends 2030 US GDP Comparative Collapse Graphic: Global Trends 2030 Water Stress NIGHTWATCH: Restrospective Review of …

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Review: Global Trends 2030 – Alternative Worlds [Paperback, Well Priced]

National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI/NIC) 3.0 out of 5 stars $75 Billion a Year and This is the Poster Child for the Public, March 26, 2013 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to …

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Tom Engelhardt: Tough Love Indictment of the US Intelligence Community — Global Trends 2030 as Poster Child for Expensive Idiocy

BOTTOM LINE ON GLOBAL TRENDS 2030: “As a portrait of American power gone remarkably blind, deaf, and dumb in a world roaring toward 2030, it provides the rest of us with the functional definition of the group of people least likely to offer long-term security to Americans.” Part I:  The Visible Government [Supersizing Secrecy] How …

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Review: Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds – American Intelligence Agency Report on the Megatrends, Gamechangers, and Black Swans of the Future, the Rise of China, Alternative World Scenarios

CIA National Intelligence Council 3.0 out of 5 stars Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts, December 27, 2012 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to a national or corporate leader, and generally nothing new. To …

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NIGHTWATCH: Restrospective Review of Global Trends 2010

NightWatch Special Comment: A Summary Evaluation of the National Intelligence Council’s report Global Trends 2010. Last week NightWatch promised to review the earliest Global Trends report it could find. The first report was published in 1997 and was entitled, Global Trends 2010. NightWatch has been spending a lot of time just trying to understand the …

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