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2012/04/28

Owl: Pope Outraged Over Leaks on Vatican Corruption — Should He Adopt US Tactics?

No institution on planet Earth – no matter how allegedly “respectable” – seems exempt from lies, fraud, graft, corruption, and so on, and all of them are highly intent on exterminating the “whistleblowers” within them, even the Catholic Church: Pope calls in Opus Dei troubleshooter to uncover source of Vatican leaks Cardinal given ‘pontifical mandate’ …

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2012/04/282012/04/29

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Al Qaeda Struggles with Training, Diminishing World Influence, says TRAC Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation Has the internet run out of ideas already? Internet censorship listed: how does each country compare? Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers, Innovators, …

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2012/04/27

Review: The Lessons of History (First Edition)

Will and Ariel Durant Beyond 6 Stars, So Fundamental as to be Priceless April 27, 2012 By Robert D. Steele HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER When I donated by 2500 volume library to George Mason University (down from 5000 in earlier years), this is one of a tiny handful of books I held back, along …

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2012/04/27

Howard Rheingold: Ann Blair on The History of Information

Ann Blair on The History of Information The history professor and author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information… Amazing read and historical perspective about transmission. Knowledge and information are actually very different …

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2012/04/242012/04/24

DefDog: Counter-IED Network Analysis – Works for Law Enforcement, Ignored by US Military

When we worked on the Manhunting Project for SOCOM, the US Marshall’s Service said that fugitive hunting was all about network analysis. The IC doesn’t understand network analysis as the bean counters push for numbers….they focus on low hanging fruit and as a result there is always some guy out there ready to step up …

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2012/04/222012/04/22

James Wall: Israel to Palestine is as Britain to Slavery – “Throw Their Dirty Little Ships Out of the Water” — Tide Turning Against Israeli Atrocities

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 | Posted by Veterans Today “Throw Their Dirty, Filthy Ships Out of the Water!” Historical parallels are never exact. But it is not unusual for us to see moments from the past resonating with moments of the present. by James M Wall About the author: James M. Wall is currently a Contributing …

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2012/04/162012/04/16

Review: Polarity Management – Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

Barry Johnson 5.0 out of 5 stars Much Less Complicated Than Expected, a Great Workbook,April 16, 2012 Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) I bought this back in December 2011 when I was scrounging around for books on panarchy (see for instance, Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. It stayed in my pile as other …

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