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Worth a Look: Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method

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Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider's assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies.

The birth of the internet, the advent of 24 hour news and the rise of social media is evidence of how governments and those dealing in intelligence commodities struggle not only to access but also to limit the information that is out there. At the same time, recent terrorist atrocities, such as 9/11 and the July 7th bombings in London, have highlighted the need for intelligence cooperation on a global scale – but how can this be achieved? Serving as a call to break from traditional models and forge more deeply and continuously inter-linked relationships, Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century advocates more fluid, networked operating methods, incorporating far more open-sourced information and data in analysis.

Featuring contributions from key figures in the industry, including Sir Colin McColl, R. James Woolsey, and Sir David Phillips, this book presents a history of intelligence developments alongside the current challenges, analysing the impact on society – both from within and due to propaganda and covert action – and the influence wrought by technological innovations. With discussion of the Deep Web, the post-9/11 era, and the resulting impact on civil liberty and police operations, Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century offers a revolutionary new approach to intelligence analysis and global collaborations.

Alfred Rolington was formerly CEO of Jane's Information Group, responsible for such publications as Jane's Defense Review and Jane's Police Review, as well as CEO for Oxford Analytica. He has over thirty years' experience of analytical publishing and media companies, producing information and intelligence for commerce, law enforcement, the, military and government. He has written about and given lectures on intelligence and strategic planning to Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard Universities, and to organisations such as Thomson Reuters, the CIA, SIS (MI6), NATO Headquarters, and GCHQ.

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Berto Jongman: Massim Taleb from Black Swan to Anti-Fragile

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Nassim Taleb: my rules for life

The controversial thinker who predicted the 2008 financial crisis hates bankers, academics and journalists. He's also a man of mystery – he eats like a caveman, and goes to bed at 8pm. We took the risk of meeting him

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.

Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.

In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.

Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear.

Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world.

Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.

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Worth a Look: NULLIFICATION – State-Right Remedy

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In Nullification: The Rightful Remedy you will learn:

What nullification is, and the basis for this 10th Amendment solution to federal overreach.
How nullification has been used in early American history-from defending free speech, to resisting federal slaves laws, and more.
Surprise, surprise-what the media, the history books, and the political pundits have told you about nullification is wrong.
How nullification is being used-successfully-around the country right now.
What you can do right now-how nullification can be used to put a stop to unconstitutional federal acts, regulations, and mandates.

Nullification: The Rightful Remedy is an explosive, information-packed documentary from The Foundation for a Free Society and the Tenth Amendment Center. It will give you the tools you need to stand up for the Constitution and liberty whether the federal government gives you “permission” to or not. This film features some of the nation’s top thinkers and activists including: Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Sheriff Richard Mack, Kevin Gutzman, Michael Boldin, Stewart Rhodes, Debra Medina, Charles Goyette, Robert Scott Bell, and many others. What do we do when the federal government refuses to follow the Constitution? Nullify NOW!

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Worth a Look: The Millenium Project

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The Millennium Project was founded in 1996 after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution, Futures Group International, and the American Council for the UNU. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 2,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its 40 Nodes around the world. The work is distilled in its annual “State of the Future”, “Futures Research Methodology” series, and special studies.

The Millennium Project Global Futures Research Capacity

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Global Futures Collective Intelligence System – under construction

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Berto Jongman: Dignity Press & Dignity Economy

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World Dignity Press

Dignity Press and World Dignity University Press are both affiliated with the World Dignity University and the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network.

About the Book:

The economic crisis has many labels ranging from “subprime crisis” to “credit crunch,” to “financial tsunami” or “economic Armageddon. Around the world, people are coming to a single diagnosis: “Something is deeply unhealthy in our world.” This book advocates a deep paradigm shift, not just from one rigid paradigm to another rigid paradigm, but away from rigidity altogether. Away from massive institutions toward a global movement that is co-created by people and their enthusiastic energy. We need a dignity revolution, and not just in Tunisia or Egypt. Now we need a global dignity revolution, a world dignity movement, a movement that creates inclusion, both locally and globally. This book by the author of award winning books “Making Enemies – Humiliation and International Conflict”, “Emotion and Conflict”, as well as “Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security” provides an overview about the plurality of concepts and movements aimed at this.

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Worth a Look: Water Abundance & Resilient Strategies from John Robb

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Worth a Look: Wind Power Across America

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Interactive Wind Map of the USA

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.

NEW: wind map prints are available from Point.B Studio.

Read more about wind and about wind power.

The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires 🙂

Tip of the Hat to Joichi Ito and Tim O'Reilly.