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2010/10/232012/11/23

2010 Julian Harston “Intelligence Assessment and Risk Analysis in Peacekeeping and Peace Support Operations – A Necessity”

Intelligence Assessment and Risk Analysis in Peacekeeping and Peace Support Operations – A necessity. Julian Harston, United Nations, Assistant Secretary General (rtd) October 2010 Document: 2010 JMAC Speech Julian Harston ‘We are fully aware of your long-standing limitations in gathering information. The limitations are inherent in the very nature of the United Nations and therefore …

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2010/10/222010/10/22

Worth a Look: Books on Toil in the Shadows

Sarah Ford’s two-fisted journey from a London council flat to the WRENS (Royal Navy) to her undercover action with the Special Air Service in Northern Ireland is an amazing odyssey, and her narrative keeps the pages turning. This is one tough broad, brought up on the mean streets of London, and her poignant struggle to …

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2010/10/21

Journal: If China Implodes, What Are the Implications?

… and destroy the Pentagon’s dream of finding a new peer competitor to replace the Soviet Union. Can you give my son a job? Slavoj Žižek The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor Allen Lane, 302 pp, £25.00, June 2010, ISBN 978 1 84614 173 7 . . . . . . . What we have …

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2010/10/162010/10/16

Journal: Food Addiction–Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are F

Mark Hyman, MD Practicing physician Posted: October 16, 2010 09:04 AM Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat? Our government and food industry both encourage more “personal responsibility” when it comes to battling the obesity epidemic and its associated diseases. They say people should exercise more self-control, make better choices, …

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2010/10/062010/10/06

Reference: World’s Smallest Cheapest Cell Phones

Cell phones may help “save” Africa By Rhett Butler, mongabay.com July 11, 2005 [Corrected July 18, 2005] For all the talk about “making poverty history” through aid and debt relief at the G8 meeting in Scotland and among aging rock stars at Live8 concerts, perhaps the best tool for poverty alleviation on the continent is …

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2010/10/052010/10/21

Dennis Kucinich, Vice President for the Commonwealth–and Some Details

Robert David Steele Recovering spy, serial pioneer for open and public intelligence Posted: October 5, 2010 08:57 AM Dennis Kucinich, Vice President for the Commonwealth–and Some Details Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and/or Comment. Below, as a memory aid, are the previously identified elements and proposed leaders within the Vice Presidency for …

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2010/10/052010/10/07

Review: Operation Dark Heart–Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan — and the Path to Victory

USG Blows It, Makes This a Best-Seller October 5, 2010 Anthony Shaffer EDIT of 7 October 2010 to address the negatives. I can see I need to spell this out more clearly. 1) Let’s distinguish between the book and the heavy-handed (late) censorsorship. The book is an earnest personal effort by an experienced officer who …

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