The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
DRAFT 1 OF 15 Chapter 5: Systems Thinking & True Cost Economics Funded by Mark Palermo, Inc. A. Thinking & the Truth. 76 B. Systems Thinking. 77 1. Overview.. 77 2. Time & Space in Systems Thinking. 78 3. Creating & Using a Provisional Model 79 4. Understanding Risk. 79 5. Acts of Man: Failures …
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Downloadable Document: 2011 AAAS Security Policy & Cybernetics Dr. Stuart Umpleby As I understand it, the fundamental problem with secret intelligence is too much self-reference and too little peer review. Stated differently, any advice from a subordinate to a superior has two components — describing some observed system and wanting to please the boss. Peer …
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Mel Goodman 5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Offering — Both Panoramic and Specific, February 23, 2013 First let me warn other reviewers, the new Amazon review protocol is not friendly. You have to enter a short review first, and then once that goes live, you can write a more sophisticated review with product links. …
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You really have to love these contract terms, “indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity,” especially in a time of austerity economics. Nation.Time.com, February 21, 2013 Military Spending Sequestration is for Sissies: $6.9 Billion More for the F-22 By Mark Thompson Pentagon officials took to PBS and the Pentagon press room to warn Wednesday about the impending sequester’s …
The web’s “Kevin Bacon effect” sees sites connected by 19 clicks or less Like the myth that every Hollywood actor is somehow linked to Kevin Bacon by no more than six people, websites are also limited in how far they are apart. A Hungarian physicist has found that every website on the internet is connected …
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Counterintelligence really has to broaden its mandate. A unified Arab water intelligence and counterintelligence authority would be most interesting! Alarming water loss in Middle East, NASA study says DOHA, Qatar – A NASA study found that an amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle …
