The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Responding to a media request for comment on Stephen Aftergood’s post, Intelligence Community Anticipates Budget Cuts: “The US secret intelligence community is long overdue for a draconian reduction of its budget from the $80-90 billion a year today that it wastes on contractors producing vaporware, to something closer to the $20 billion a year that …
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EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …
Paul Fernhout has been helping his wife (Cynthia Kurtz) develop Rakontu, a free and open source software communications and sensemaking tool for small purpose-driven communities that focuses on exchanging stories. He has hopes to expand Rakontu eventually into a broader Public Intelligence platform including a semantic desktop, simulations, narrative methods, visualization tools, and structured arguments. …
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Dear friends, This last six months most of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s best work has been in behind-the-scenes exploratory conversations, research and development. We expect the results of all that to become increasingly evident soon. Here’s a sky-view of what we’ve been up to. I invite you to consider what impact this kind of work has …
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The post Search: errors that resulted in great ideas and especially the comment on need to fully integrate women and minorities reminded me of Ellen Swallow Richards. She was one of the first publicly acknowledged female heavy-weights in intellect and values in the USA, in my opinion. See especially her later books, The Cost of …
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How To Use Technology To Counter Rumors During Crises: Anecdotes from Kyrgyzstan Patrick Meier | March 26, 2011 at 11:47 pm | Tags: rumors, Skype, SMS, validation | Categories: Crowdsourcing, Digital Activism, New Media | URL: http://wp.me/pecFU-1n8 I just completed a short field mission to Kyrgyzstan with UN colleagues and I’m already looking forward to …
Harrison Owen: Well said. And I rather suspect that the core of the matter is deeper than Culture – and that would be an extended conversation. But it is certainly not about rule change and redesign, I think. Alexander Carpenter: Right on, as your imminent study of evolutionary psychology will confirm. I reckon we don’t …
