Review: How Terrorism Ends–Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns

Needs Inside the Book for Fifth Star April 3, 2010 Audrey Kurth Cronin If and when the publisher provides the table of contents and a sample chapter (easy to upload using the standard publishing tools offered by Amazon Advantage) or works with Amazon to achieve Inside the Book access, I will consider buying this book. …

EVENT REPORT: State of the Planet 2010, Columbia Univ, New York City

Panels and keynotes program schedule I was told via email from someone involved in the event that a video will be posted online.I will be posting this over a the Earth Institute blog (especially since it has zero comments for the March 25 event) as a challenge to improve the overall framework of the “State …

Review: Unvaccinated, Homeschooled, and TV-Free–It’s Not Just for Fanatics and Zealots

Beyond Six Stars–a Game Changer, Pure Public Intelligence March 15, 2010 Julie Cook This book will join the Six Stars and Beyond group at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, where I can group my reviews in the 98 categories in which I read and you can do a whole lot of other things …

Search: education knowledge of the four quadrant

Simple searches work best on WordPress.  Spelling and plural versus singular do matter. Four quadrants search produces (with better human in the loop sort for relevance: Graphic: Four Quadrants J-2 High Cell SMS Low Graphic: The Four Quadrants of Knowledge Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Nova Spivak Graphic: OSINT and Full-Spectrum HUMINT (Updated) Search: management …

Journal: Reasons Big Banks Are Bad for Democracy

Why Exactly Are Big Banks Bad? By Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario, 4 March 2010 Just over 100 years ago, as the nineteenth century drew to a close, big business in America was synonymous with productivity, quality, and success.  “Economies of scale” meant that big railroads and big oil companies could move cargo and supply energy cheaper …

Worth a Look: Historical Items Posted Today

Defense Intelligence 1990  Reference: Defense Intelligence in the 1990’s Guidance (1990) 1990  Reference: USMC Draft Defense Intelligence Fixes (1990) 1991  Reference: USMC Proposed Alternative National Intelligence Topics (NIT) (1991) 1991 Reference: USMC Utilizing the Counter-Narcotics Center Experience as a Basis for General Intelligence Restructuring Initiatives (1991) Andrew Shepard 1995  Reference: Error Management in US Intelligence …

Review : Global Shift–How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity

Phenomenal Integration of Ideas–Superb “Once Over” February 10, 2010 [final review 21 February 2010] Edmund J. Bourne I have sent INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty to the printer and it is on that foundation that I highly recommend this book for a simple easy to understand overview of the fifteen converging forces …