Tip of the hat to Berto Jongman in The Netherlands for this lead.
Reference: Global Peace Index 2010
Analysis, Augmented Reality, Geospatial, Maps, Peace Intelligence, United Nations & NGOsReference: Index of Global Reports 2009-2010
United Nations & NGOs
The below report provides a summary of major reports that are being integrated into the Millenium Project under the State of the Future project inspired by Jerome Glenn. Their Futures Matrix and the Indicators they have devised for each global domain are instructive.
Reference: Steele on the Record–Four Short Videos
About the Idea, Briefings (Core), Briefings & LecturesPhi Beta Iota: Occasionally we stumble across value-added efforts by others who have re-mixed or clipped portions of longer pieces featuring our founder, Robert Steele. Provided for information.
Reference: ClimateGate Tree Ring Debacle
05 Energy, Articles & Chapters, Communities of Practice, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Key Players, Threats
Below is an important presentation by Steve McIntyre to the Heartland Conference on the history of the tree ring shenanigans of Jones, Briffa and Mann, as well as the phony efforts to investigate the dispute. It is a very good dispassionate summary of how the hockey stick cape job was perpetrated in IPCC Report, IMO.
McIntyre does not address the issue of how or whether this behaviour is shaped by the need to acquire grant money. Chuck
See Also:
The Divergence Problem and the Failure of Tree Rings for Reconstructing Past Climate
Written by Craig Loehle, PhD, World Climate Report | 25 October 2008
Reference: UnityNet — an M4IS2 Option
08 Wild Cards, About the Idea, Analysis, Augmented Reality, C4/JOE/Software, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Computer/online security, DoD, Ethics, Geospatial, Handbook Elements, Historic Contributions, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Maps, Methods & Process, Open Government, Policies, Policy, Real Time, Research resources, Strategy, Technologies, Threats, Tools, True Cost
See Also:
Operational Requirements Document
Technical Requirements Document
And Also:
Handbook: Synergy Strike Force, Dr. Dr. Dave Warner, Round II
and references therein down multiple levels…
As well as the thinking of Steve Edwards, Arno Reuser, and Mark Tovey; and among the Americans, Carol Dumaine, Jack Davis, and Ran Hock, among others.
Reference: Invisible Empire New World Order DVD + RECAP
08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, DHS, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), IO Deeds of War, Methods & Process, Military, Movies, Officers Call, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Strategy, United Nations & NGOs, Waste (materials, food, etc)
Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined Full
2 hours, 14 minutes, 1 second — free online, click on title above
Jason Bermas [creator or Loose Change movie] presents Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined produced by Alex Jones. The film can be ordered here http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/inemnewwoord.html or viewed free online (click on title above).
Summary and See Also Below the Line.
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Reference: Intelligence Support to Small Arms Acquisition–A Brilliant Indictment
10 Security, Analysis, DoD, Methods & Process, Military, Reform, Strategy, Threats, Tools
(1) US consciously changed from standard main battle rifles firing “full military cartridges” (ie., M-14/7.62×51 NATO, M-1 Garand/cal. 30 M-1) to assault rifles (AR-15, M-16, Stoner System) in the 1960s as we attempted to optimize for short-range engagements in the constrained mountainous/jungle environments of Southeast Asia. At the time, our primary allies were slight of physical stature;
(2) Concurrently, training and engagement doctrine shifted from carefully aimed individual shots to volume of fire (bursts of various numbers of rounds, the “spray and slay” technique) and various “point and shoot” techniques such as “instinctive aiming,” “quick kill,” etc.;
(3) Ammunition followed suit and emphasis in terminal ballistics shifted from accuracy and kinetic energy to volume of fire and bullet yaw/fragmentation; (4) I attach the SAMS paper by MAJ Ehrhart cited in the article.)
Phi Beta Iota: This one paper is a superb indictment of US DoD leadership from the Secretary of Defense, who claims he does not do “maintenance” but is in fact overseeing “business as usual” for Lockheed et all, to the Undersecretaries (Intelligence does not do intelligence support to acquisitions; Acquisitions could care less about inexpensive individual systems; and Policy simply does not have a clue) to the service leaders responsible for training, equipping, and organizing the forces to be sent into battle by the Combatant Commanders. The Strategic Generalizations developed by the Marine Corps Intelligence Center in 1989 remain valid–and ignored.
Related Media Article:
April 2, 2010
Army Report: GIs Outgunned In Afghanistan
By David Wood
American troops are often outgunned by Afghan insurgents because they lack the precision weapons, deadly rounds, and training needed to kill the enemy in the long-distance firefights common in Afghanistan's rugged terrain, according to an internal Army study.
