The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
SEE ALSO: Journal: Gorgon Stare (All Eyes, No Brain) The American Way of War: If You Can See Everything, Can You Know Anything? With Air Force’s new drone, ‘we can see everything,’ in today’s Washington Post (attached below) is a good example of how the high-cost addiction to techno war is running amok. One thing …
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Decision-support (intelligence) is the ultimate objective of information processes. One must carefully distinguish between data which is raw text, signal, or image; information which is collated data of generic interest; and intelligence which is information tailored to support a specific decision… Robert David Steele Vivas On Intelligence (AFCEA, 2000) As noted in an earlier Journal …
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5 Overlooked Stories (CSM) 1. Stuxnet 2. TARP is Cheap 3. Common School Standards 4. Rise of Natural Gas 5. Twilight of the Desktop 20 Hopeful Stories (YES! Magazine) 1. Climate Crisis Response Takes a New Direction 2. Wikileaks Lifts the Veil 3. Momentum is Building for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons …
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Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS’s Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities GAO-11-99 December 17, 2010 A catastrophic public health event could threaten our national security and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. Recognizing the need for efficient sharing of real-time information to help prevent devastating consequences of public …
PART I: The Only Way to Fix the Deficit–Multiply Jobs (William Drayton) PART II: Nice Ideas But So Is Icing Cover Feces (Robert Steele) PART III: Create Jobs? As an End In Themselves? To Do What? Why? (Alexander Carpenter) PART IV: Related Recommended Reading (Robert Steele) The core take-away (from PART III) Beyond its inherent …
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U.S. Code-Cracking Agency Works As If Compromised. The U.S. government’s main code-making and code-cracking agency now works on the assumption that foes may have pierced even the most sensitive national security computer networks under its guard. “There’s no such thing as ‘secure’ any more,” Debora Plunkett of the National Security Agency said on Thursday amid …
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Phi Beta Iota: The US Government continues to be chaotic in part because its civilian leaders simply do not know what they do not know. They have the best of intentions, but have been promoted into a new world far removed from the world imprinted on them in their formative years. There are four ways …
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