As Mary O’Grady reported in the Wall Street Journal, the conduct of today’s presidential and Congressional elections is a tribute to the fortitude of the leadership in standing up to the United States and the anti-US front led by Hugo Chavez.
Preliminary official results showed Porfirio Lobo, of the opposition National Party, with 56% support with more than 60% of the tally sheets counted. Ruling party candidate Elvin Santos conceded defeat to Lobo. Election officials said more than 60% of registered voters cast ballots Sunday.
Neither Zelaya nor Marcheletti were candidates. The fact of the elections without Zelaya is the crowning achievement of Honduran democracy.
1. An audit of Fort Knox will probably disclose that USA has half its claimed holdings in gold.
2. China is leveraging the considerable buying power of its multi-billion population in a very clever manner.
3. China has 80% or more of all the other precious metals including those needed to create green energy, still in the ground–the rest of the world will pay dearly for them The USA has failed to do a current strategic resources survey and has no strategy for getting into the future in any semblance of peace and prosperity for all.
Below the Fold: Reference Links on Chinese Strategic Minerals
A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence.
That list, in that priority, comprises the vertical aspect of the Strategic Analytic Model.
The following quote from Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), now retired but then the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), is instructive:
I am constantly being asked for a bottom-line defense number. I don't know of any logical way to arrive at such a figure without analyzing the threat; without determining what changes in our strategy should be made in light of the changes in the threat; and then determining what force structure and weapons program we need to carry out this revised strategy.
Phi Beta Iota: ClimateGate has outraged us for two reasons–first, the lack of integrity among the scientists and the selected United Nations officials concerned; and second, the naivete, ignorance, or corruption of government officials all too eager to create a new Global Warming Complex that profits from carbon trades (another form of phantom wealth) while imposing severe social costs on the five billion poor. ENOUGH. Below the fold are the original comments of Contributing Editor Chuck Spinney, relating past Pentagon data manipulation with the data manipulation that charactizes the Climate Change movement. It is our view that the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should be disbanded, while the UN High Level Panel and the UN Environmental Program, both of which kept their integrity intact, are asked to create a World Brain with embedded EarthGame that can address all ten high level threats (environmental degradation is third, after poverty and infectious disease) by providing the world with information that allows the harmonization of spending across all twelve core policy areas in a manner attractive to the eight demographic challengers (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and Wild Cards such as the Congo, Malaysia, and Turkey).
Do NOT buy the book “new.” First published in 1947, it is available used in the 1960's edition for under $10, see the link to the lower of the two used offerings.
A hint of the original MacIver content is contained here but $35 for this is idiotic greed (or just idiocy).
01084. THE WEB OF GOVERNMENT BY R.M. MACIVER. A review of this study of the working of government in human society. The 1947 study is viewed as a treatise on fascism and communism as class-based societies. 5 pages, 8 footnotes, 1 bibliographic source.
The key point in all of this is that top-down hierarchical command & control entities are not now and never will be complex adaptative systems. To achieve complex adaptive resilience you need to have bottom-up and contant feedback loops with integrity. See Search: The Future of OSINT is M4IS2.
The key concept that you appear to be searching for points directly to the wealth of networks, the ability to achieve a prosperous world at peace by achieving infinite non-zero (win-win) options for all, by empowering the five billion poor to achieve infinite wealth, and by using co-intelligence to eradicate fraud, waste, and abuse such as is now characteristic of most organizations that thrive on data pathologies and information asymmetries.
Earth Intelligence (46), as with all of our categories for journal entries, references, or reviews, can be bookmarked or selected from the menu in the middle column to follow postings on Climate Change and ClimateGate and the related fraud network.
ClimateGate is, in the words of one scientist, a mushroom cloud rather than a smoking gun. We agree.
Queen of England has been had. She has been made a fool of in Trinidad & Tobago.
Breaking news from the splendid Bishop Hill. It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen.
