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US Military Budget False and Real — Click on Image to Enlarge

Tomgram: Chris Hellman, $1.2 Trillion for National Security

Here’s the thing: the House Republicans are going after their version of unsightly pimples on the body politic — the programs they and their billionaire sponsors find ideologically unpalatable — without seriously considering where our money really flows. We at TomDispatch thought we might lend a hand to Congress’s deliberations this week by offering something new: the first real figure on what American taxpayers actually pay for the Pentagon, the U.S. military, homeland security, our distant wars, the care of veterans, intelligence, and every other aspect of our national security and war state.

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$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget No One Wants You to Know About

by Chris Hellman • March 1, 2011 www.tomdispatch.com

What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked up the check only to discover that it was almost twice the menu price.

Continue reading “The Real “National Security Budget: $1.2 Trillion”

2011/03/10

Worth a Look: Open Enterprise

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, IO Multinational, Key Players, Methods & Process, Open Government, Policies, Threats

The Open Enterprise is a new organizational design. Unlike organizations using traditional management structures, Open Enterprises replace the command and control hierarchy with a meritocracy based on collaboration and open participation.

Open Enterprise Manifesto

Open Enterprise Governance Model

BetterMeans Open Project Management Software

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Director of National Intelligence Self-Destructs…Again

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Intelligence (government), Reform

Senator: Remarks about Libya ‘should be the final straw' for Clapper (CNN)

Clapper lambastes Russia; wait, isn’t Joe Biden in Russia? (The Hill)

U.S. Intelligence Chief Says Qaddafi Has Edge in Conflict (NYT)

US should keep up Lebanon military aid: intel chief (AFP)

Losing Libya III (PajamasMedia)

Phi Beta Iota: We used to admire Jim Clapper, so much so that a member of our collective issued a press release in his defense when Donald Rumsfeld fired him for telling the truth. General Clapper appears to have forgotten how to tell the truth, and he is not leading the US Intelligence Community, he is administering it with cronies assigned to administer the various agencies. There is no longer intelligence at the top of the intelligence community. It is time for a full-spectrum house cleaning, to include the conversion of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, which is not needed, into the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Peace Operations, which IS needed. Mike Vickers is not qualified for either position.

Media Spin: Clapper told the truth. Reality: Clapper is out of touch with reality–he cannot even outline the ten high-level threats to humanity or explain why continued fragmentation of the US Government is the greatest threat to our near term as well as a long term stability and prosperity. Russia and China are not military threats to the US but rather economic threats, and in the case of China, a demographic and scientific & technology threat. The Old Guard is dead, may they rest in peace. Sadly, there is no bench within the US Intelligence Community OR the contractor world. We anticipate nothing beneficial for our $90 billion a year.

See Also:

Obama to Clapper: “Disappointed.” Duh.

Journal: Reflections on Integrity

Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both

Review: Ideas and Integrities–A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

What’s Right with America? Let Me List the Books…

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Reference: Open Source Insurgency

Articles & Chapters, Blog Wisdom, Cultural Intelligence

2010-12-04 How WikiLeaks builds a global open source insurgency

2010-11-21 Global Guerrillas (John Robb) on Open Source Jihad

2010-03-12 JOURNAL: OSW Standing Orders (11 of them)

2010-02-16 dkgreenroots: oil addiction, open source insurgency & black swans: Part II

2009-11-17 Open Source Insurgency through Software Tools

2009-09-14 An Early Plan for Open Source Peaceful Evolution

2008-03-23 Starting an Open Source Insurgency

2008-02-01 Open-Source Warfare Review of Brave New War by John Robb

2005-10-15 Original NYC Op Ed: The Open-Source War

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Reference: Building National Knowledge Infrastructure–How Dutch Pragmatism Nurtures a 21st Century Economy (The Cook Report on Internet Protocol)

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics

Cook Report Fancy — Click on Image to Enlarge

P2P Foundation Post on the Book

Download Book from CookReport

FREE Color Copy to New Subscribers to the Private List of Dr. Gordon Cook, email him to his last name only @cookreport.com.

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Gordon Cook

Autonomous Internet [Open, Free, Distributed]

Range Networks: The ONLY OpenBTS Real Deal

Core Graphic from this Reference

Cook Report Core Slide — Click on Image to Enlarge

The Dutch, unaffected by the corruption that plagues the US government and its corporate patrons (aptly documented in Matt Tabbi's GRIFTOPIA), have done it right. They have built Roger Karraker's “Highways of the Mind, done so from the bottom-up, and recognized the massive efficiencies that come from a combination of optical paths and clever holistic architectures that allow data to move at lower levels when the fit is right. The Dutch are deep and holistic; the US is superficial and corrupt. That's the story.

Related Commentary:

We need to ignite a Layer-1 revolution

Security: Risk and Reward By Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Network World March 02, 2011 10:57 AM ET

2011/03/09

Crowd-Sourcing Comes of Age on Libya

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, Government, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Mobile, Real Time

yoda — May the Crowd be with you, always.

Volunteers Behind Libya Crisis Map: A True Story

Patrick Meier, iRevolutiion, 8 March 2011

My colleague Clay Shirky called it “Cognitive Surplus” in his recent book. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams refer to it as “MacroWikinomics” in theirs.

What is cognitive surplus? The trillion hours of free time enjoyed by the world's educated population every year. Don and Tony describe MacroWikinomics as mass distributed collaboration on scales we've never seen before thanks to technology.

We're familiar with deficits and shortages, writes, Clay, but when it comes to surplus social capital, things quickly become unpredictable—especially when this capital scales thanks to the use of social networking platforms and Web 2.0 technologies. But then again, says Clay, “Many of the unexpected uses of communication tools are surprising because our old beliefs about human nature were so lousy.”

Rest of story, maps, photos….

Phi Beta Iota: Over bagels and lox yesterday, Doug Rushkoff summarized his intention for ContactCon: “to take us back to 1992, but this time with 2012 technology and human understanding.” Here is what the US Government was told in 1992 about crowd-sourcing. 20 years and 1 trillion dollars later (20 years, average of 50 billion a year), we still have the world's most expensive ineffective wasteland pretending to “do” intelligence. The lunacy continues.

1992 AIJ OSS Steele’s Original Vision

1992 AIJ Fall ‘New Paradigm” and Avoiding Future Failures

Reference: 1992 USMC C4I Campaign Plan

1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)

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Reference: Reinventing Management

Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & Chapters, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice

Feb. 26 2011 – 12:42 pm By STEVE DENNING

My article, The Reinvention of Management” has just been published in a special issue of Strategy & Leadership on “outracing change: learning to foresee, adapt, re-invent and innovate faster.” (Strategy & Leadership, 2011, Vol. 39 Issue: #2, pp.9 – 17)

The article explains why business leaders and writers are increasingly exploring a fundamental rethinking of the basic tenets of management. It synthesizes a number of books including Umair Haque’s The New Capitalist Manifesto, The Power of Pull by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison and my own book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management. The article shows how management is being reinvented with five fundamental shifts:

the firm’s goal (a shift from inside-out to outside-in);
the role of managers (a shift from controller to enabler);
the mode of coordination (from command and control to dynamic linking);
the values practiced (a shift from value to values); and
the communications (a shift from command to conversation).

The raison d’être of the firm changes from a focus on reducing transaction costs to scalable collaboration, learning and innovation. The shifts are interdependent: if only some shifts are made, the firm will slide back into hierarchical bureaucracy.

By adopting a people-centered goal, a people-centered role for managers, a people-centered coordination mechanism, people-centered values and people-centered communication the leaders of a firm can focus on the people who are its customers.

The article is available here.