The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hedrick Smith 5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling Narrative–Could the Book Tour Spark a Revolution?, September 11, 2012 EDIT of 12 Sep 2012: I spent the night thinking about this book. Directly below [and now also loaded as a graphic to this Amazon page] are a graphic showing the preconditions of revolution in the USA, …
Yochai Benkler Robert Steele: This review is so useful in its summary and links to other books that it is being cross-posted to Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog. Both this book and its virtual sidekick, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive completely miss the point of Statecraft as …
Bernard Manin 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star Wake Up Call – The Democracy That Never Was….,September 3, 2012 It is a telling sign of the ignorance across the USA and elsewhere that there is no other review of this book, a book that was brought to my attention recently when I made it …
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INTEL-ON-DEMAND IN A WEB 2.0 WORLD IntelNews / by Timothy W Coleman Aug 21 2012 ► Aug 11. In the United States, the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), “the highest-level intelligence analysis targeted at the key national security issues and concerns of the President”, is increasingly going digital. For that matter, so is much of the …
Theory-based impact evaluation: principles and practice June 2009 Calls for rigorous impact evaluation has been accompanied by the quest for what works and why. Howard White identifies six principles for the successful application of the approach — mapping out the causal chain (programme theory), understanding the context, anticipating heterogeneity, rigorous evaluation of impact using a …
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Howard Bloom 5.0 out of 5 stars CHALLENGING–Multi-Volume Story of Civilization’s Soul in One Volume,August 26, 2012 I have been hooked on Howard Bloom’s thinking since I read Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. I on to read his first book (The Lucifer Principle) and then …
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