Category: References

I will not replicate all that is at www.oss.net and to a much lesser extent, www.earth-intelligence.net, but do want to recognize a handful of extraordinary individuals by isolating their especially meritorious contributiions to the long-running debate about national intelligence reform and re-invention.

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2010 Reference: 5 Lessons From Outgoing Microsoft Software Architect Ray Ozzie

Articles & Chapters, Blog Wisdom
Ray Ozzie Dawn of a New Day Memo (28 Oct 2010)

1. Take time to paint a vision of the future

2. Put past successes “in perspective”

3. Recognize what’s inevitable in your industry

4. “Inevitable” is not the same as “imminent”

5. Real transformation has to come from within

Read complete Fast Company Article

Phi Beta Iota: This is very depressing.  Read the entire Fast Company article for solid paragraphs on each of the five lessons.  The truth-teller is #5 and as best we can tell this is Steve Ballmer's firing notice–he's run the company into the ground, most of the groups do not make money, and he has no vision–antics are not a substitute for vision.  Below is one vision for the future of Microsoft, highly unlikely to ever be realized.

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2010 Reference: HEALTH Facebook Pages

07 Health, Blog Wisdom, Fact Sheets

Accreditation Commission for Health Care

Action for Mental Health

Adventist Health

African American Health Council of Southeastern CT

Alaska Native Tribal Health Statewide Recruiting

Alliance for Natural Health

Ambassadors for Sustained Health

American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living

American Health Lawyers Association

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2010 Reference: The Pentagon, Information Operations, and Media Development

02 Diplomacy, 10 Security, Cultural Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), IO Multinational, IO Secrets, Media, Media Reports, Military, Peace Intelligence, White Papers
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CIMA is pleased to release a new report, The Pentagon, Information Operations, and Media Development, by Peter Cary, a veteran journalist with extensive experience reporting about the U.S. military. As part of its post-9/11 strategy, the Department of Defense has launched a multi-front information war, both to support its troops on the ground and to counter the propaganda of radical Muslim extremists. The DoD’s global public relations war, however, has fostered criticism that the department has over-reached and tarred the efforts of non-DoD Americans doing media development work abroad.

While the DoD cannot be criticized for trying to protect the lives of its soldiers, it has spent vast amounts of money on media operations–which can tend to be conducted in secrecy and whose effectiveness often cannot be measured. This report examines the impact of DoD information operations on international media development efforts and offers recommendations – including that the DoD leave media activities that could be considered public diplomacy to the State Department.

Tip of the Hat to Niels Groeneveld at LinkedIn.

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Reference: How Goldman Sachs Looted America

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, Analysis, Articles & Chapters, Blog Wisdom, Budgets & Funding, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Law Enforcement, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy
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Exclusive Excerpt: America on Sale, From Matt Taibbi's ‘Griftopia'

Matt Taibbi's unsparing and authoritative reporting on the financial crisis has produced a series of memorable Rolling Stone features. He showed us how Goldman Sachs, that “great vampire squid,” played a central role in creating not only the housing bubble but four other big speculative booms that filled its coffers while wrecking the American economy. He explained how Wall Street banks cooked up schemes that helped decimate municipal budgets and cost countless jobs, and how Wall Street lobbying led to a financial reform bill that won't prevent another meltdown. Taibbi builds on that eye-opening work in his new book, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America , due out from Spiegel & Grau on November 2. In this exclusive excerpt, he describes how our cash-strapped country is auctioning off its highways, ports and even parking meters at fire sale prices — and finding eager buyers in the unregulated sovereign wealth funds of oil-rich Middle Eastern countries.

Read the exclusive Griftopia excerpt.

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Blog Wisdom: Over 50, Unemployable, What Next?

Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Julia MouldenJulia Moulden

Columnist

Posted: October 23, 2010 11:55 AM

Over 50 and at the Top of Your Game? Here's What's Next

EXTRACT:

Many boomers will answer the question, “What work, exactly?” with, “Start a business.” Some of us will do it because it's something we've always wanted to do, others because we can't find work and need to create it. But hanging out a shingle is suddenly on the upswing, especially among people over 50.

Just ask the folks at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the world's largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship. Their research shows that the average age of first-time entrepreneurs is now between 55 and 64. “The United States is on the cusp of an entrepreneurship boom — not in spite of an aging population, but because of it.”

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Phi Beta Iota: This posting hit us like a thunderbolt.  Combine it with the literature on “Wealth of Networks” and the literature on “Cognitive Surplus” and you have a nation-wide “gold mine.  This is HUGE.

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2010 Julian Harston “Intelligence Assessment and Risk Analysis in Peacekeeping and Peace Support Operations – A Necessity”

Advanced Cyber/IO, Ethics, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence, United Nations & NGOs

Intelligence Assessment and Risk Analysis in Peacekeeping and Peace Support Operations – A necessity.

Julian Harston, United Nations, Assistant Secretary General (rtd)

October 2010

Document:  2010 JMAC Speech Julian Harston

‘We are fully aware of your long-standing limitations in gathering information. The limitations are inherent in the very nature of the United Nations and therefore of any operation conducted by it.’

UN Secretary-General U Thant to the Commander of the UN Operation in the Congo (UNOC), Lt-Gen. Kebbede Guebre, in a coded cable on 24 September 1962.

“Through error, misjudgment and an inability to recognize the scope of the evil confronting us, we failed to do our part to save the people of Srebrenica from mass murder.”

Kofi Annan

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Reference: The Future of Physics Lecture I

Movies
Nima Arkani-Hamed

Setting the stage: Space-time and Quantum Mechanics (Video Lecture Online)

Renowned theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed delivered the first in his series of five Messenger lectures on “The Future of Fundamental Physics” Oct. 4.

Formerly a professor at Harvard, Arkani-Hamed currently sits on the faculty at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where Einstein served from 1933 until his death in 1955.

The Messenger lectures are sponsored by the University Lectures Committee. The lectures were established in 1924 by a gift from Hiram Messenger, who graduated from Cornell in 1880.

Tip of the Hat to Brandin Watson at Facebook.
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