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2011/09/272011/09/27

Ric Merrifield: When Metrics & Assumptions Are Wrong

Moneyball meets cater2.me and Marvin Windows f you somehow missed it, they turned Michael Lewis’ book Moneyballinto a movie that premiered last weekend. Given how much coverage it got, I was stunned to see it come in third place at the box office, behind the re-released Lion King of all things. I have been aware …

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2011/09/242011/09/24

Review: Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy – Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform

Paul Pillar 5.0 out of 5 stars Four for Omissions, Six for Precision Relevance,September 22, 2011 EVENT ALERT: Paul Pillar is speaking at Brookings Institute on Wednesday 5 October 2011 from 10:00 to 11:30, RSVP is required to 21DefenseInitiative[…] I will attend that session. This alert will be deleted on 5 October. – – – …

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2011/09/222011/09/22

Richard Wright: DoD – A Strategic Hole – A Strategic Farce

A Strategic Hole – A Strategic Farce The Public Intelligence Blog (Phi Beta Iota) has carried a number of recent articles all of which had the common theme that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is wasting billions of dollars and can easily sustain major cuts in the DOD budget without threatening U.S. National Security. …

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2011/09/202011/09/20

DefDog: Laser to Detect Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)

JIEDDO spent north of $1 Billion and climbing and was not able to do what these guys have….. Researchers Say Laser Could Detect Roadside Bombs By Chloe Albanesius PCMag.com, September 19, 2011 Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a laser that could be used to detect roadside bombs, also known as improvised explosive devices …

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2011/09/172011/10/22

Robert Steele: US Day of Rage = Electoral Reform & Integrity Plus General RECAP on Purple Public & Third Party Rising

I’ve been driving the 1964 MGB (my last remaining possession, it needs $5,000 of underbody work to survive the winter) around New England and am in New York now. I’ve been following the US Day of Rage plans (they were also announced here) but have been surprised to find a number of normally intelligent middle-class …

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2011/09/142011/09/14

Robert Steele: Why the Elite Don’t Want Troops Home

Two posts by others: Owl: Financial Terrorism in USA Against USA by Wall Street and 400 Specifically Named Most Wealthy and then a day later: Mini-Me: 57 Finance Ministers Creating New Financial System–Over 50,000 Bankers to Be Held Accountable have taken on a life of their own and inspired more emails to me personally than …

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2011/09/13

Tom Atlee: Gross National Happiness & Sacred Economics

September 13, 2011 Remarkable videos and a remarkable book about remarkable economics This is, for me, the most inspiring TED Talk I’ve ever seen. Silver Donald Cameron – Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness And here are a film and a book that expand and deepen the view that economics can and should be …

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