Event: 9-11 Dec San Francisco CA Open Space Learning Workshop by Lisa Heft

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This stuff WORKS.  It requires patience, listening, and the courage to be candid.

We absolutely gurantee this produces better decisions than are coming out of Congress, the White House, or the senior offices of any major organization.

The decisions are better for three reasons:

1.  All available points of view are factored in.

2. All available true costs and possible consequences are openly considered.

3.  Group consensus is achieved which makes the decision a sustainable one–not, as George Shultz once described US Government decisions–something that has to be re-negotiated every day and is under constant attack from those not consulted or not heard.

Event: 11-12 Dec 09 Berkeley Springs WV Change Workshop with Don Beck and John Petersen

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Explore the landscape of large-scale change and map the pathways to a future new world in an intense, hands-on, unprecedented workshop with Don Beck and John Petersen.

Humanity is seeing the growing stress fractures of a global system undergoing extraordinary, historic change. Social systems are surfacing extreme responses to unprecedented threats to the status quo. Titanic shifts in the global financial, climate and energy systems all seem to be conspiring to undermine the effectiveness of almost every historical – and familiar – approach to living on this planet.

This workshop is an unequalled opportunity to learn about the options, potentials, processes, and possibilities related to large scale change.

A Few Links and Reviews (including DNI's Global Trends 2025):

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SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 25 Nov 09

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AA: Pentagon Manhunters: America's New Murder, Inc.? 11/23/09

AA: Iran's military forces stage war games 11/22/09

AR: Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA 11/20/09

AR: In Argentina, One Person Dies Every 28 Hours from Police Repression 11/21/09

BR: Brazil should use caution 11/25/09

BR: Italian ex-militant ends hunger strike in Brazil 11/24/09

PE: PERU: Parties Thwart Public Demand for Women in Politics 11/24/09

VE: Venezuela: A new phase and greater dangers — which way forward? 11/20/09

VE: Venezuela's Chavez Calls for International Organisation of Left Parties 11/23/09

VE: Venezuela's Debt for Russian Weapons and Tanks 11/23/09

Below the Fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 24 Nov 09

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AA: Al-Qaeda Moving to Africa: Sources 11/22/09

AA: Ship is pirate target again 11/19/09

AO: Angola: Armed Forces Staff Attend Workshop on Future Constitution 11/19/09

BW: Khama faces ICC prosecution 11/19/09

CD: FACTBOX-Who are Congolese warlords Katanga and Ngudjolo? 11/23/09

CD: UN blue helmets help passengers in DR Congo when plane overshoots runway 11/19/09

GH: Soldiers ordered to speak French 11/21/09

NG: Nigeria: Trends in Military Justice System 11/19/09

RW: Rwandan militia leaders' arrests praised 11/19/09

SD: South Sudan agree to release children soldiers – UN 11/24/09

SO: Somali pirates waste ransom money on weddings and orgies 11/19/09

TD: Troubled Chad moving to calmer phase: UN official 11/20/09

UG: Uganda: Former LRA child soldiers undergo rehabilitation 11/24/09

Below the Fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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Event: 15-17 Dec 09 Tucson, AZ US Army Intelligence Summit, Intelligence on the Edge–Setting the Conditions for Success

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Too technical, no processing, no analysis, no human (or cultural) intelligence to speak of, too many industry speakers, too many senior speakers, and no aggregation and integration across AF IQ, SO, YE, etcetera.  Other than that, a great conference to be anticipated.  We've asked for notes.  The highlight: Jim Clapper in a goatee.

Jim Clapper
Jim Clapper

James R. Clapper Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence on April 11, 2007. He is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense regarding intelligence, counterintelligence and security matters. He is also dual-hatted as the Director of Defense Intelligence and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence as his principal advisor regarding defense intelligence matters.   He has been hthe National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director as a civilian; his  last military assignment was as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. His earlier assignments included a variety of intelligence-related positions such as assistant chief of staff, intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and as director of intelligence for three war-fighting commands: U.S. Forces, Korea; Pacific Command; and Strategic Air Command.   He served two combat tours during the Southeast Asia conflict and flew 73 combat support missions in EC-47s over Laos and Cambodia.

PACOM Week in Review Ending 22 Nov 09

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CN: China's Cyberwars 11/19/09

CN: AP NewsBreak: China holds, mistreats US geologist 11/19/09

CN: China legislator seeks to criminalise banquets: report 11/21/09

ID: Indonesian president issues order to publicly expose high-profile bank scam 11/23/09

IN: Security still lacking one year after Mumbai attacks 11/21/09

KP: Defector tells of life in North Korean army 11/19/09

LK: Tamil activists' shock on return to Jaffna 11/20/09

MY: Malaysia battles on for the soul of Islam 11/19/09

NZ: Link between fire starting and crime 11/19/09

PH: Arroyo urged to extend armed forces chief's term 11/19/09

Below the Fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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