Reflections: Intelligence for the President Revisited

SHORT URL TO SHARE WITH OTHERS:  http://tinyurl.com/Obama-Intel I am delighted to find some of my earlier work being looked at with new eyes. Intelligence for the President–and Everyone Else: How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace (CounterpPunch, Week-End Edition,Feb 29 – Mar 02 2009) Fixing the White House and …

Yoda: Dynamic Causation vs. Systemic Causation II

Complex, force is. Yoda: Dynamic Causation vs. Systemic Causation Further commentary: IDEN C:  John Pourdehnad just gave a talk, and I thought David Ing’s notes from it were good reading. John more or less channels Ackoff, but also relates it to contemporary efforts.  About half way down he says this: Mechanical systems may explain through cause …

Winslow Wheeler: Romney’s Unrealistic Defense Budget with Comment by Robert Steele

Romney’s defense budget is unrealistic By Winslow T. Wheeler, director, Straus Military Reform Project at the Project On Government Oversight – 11/01/12 10:45 AM ET Mitt Romney’s proposal to boost defense spending until it reaches “a floor of four percent of GDP [gross domestic product],” as he proclaims at his official website, is an insult …

DefDog: Wired on NYPost Being Retarded – Homework in Class on Terrorism a Threat to National Security – Comment by Robert Steele

NY Post Pisses Its Pants Over Terrorism Homework; And You Should Too Ryan Singel WIRED, 29 October 2012 The New York Post is quivering in fear and outrage over a graduate level course for intelligence analysts that requires students to write a fake terrorism plot, complete with methods of execution, sources of funding, number of …

Review: Designing a World that Works For All: Solutions & Strategies for Meeting the World’s Needs

Medard Gabel 5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Sequel, Second Book in Series,October 30, 2012 This is the second book in the series, the first was Designing a World That Works for All: How the Youth of the World are Creating Real-World Solutions for the UN Millenium Development Goals and Beyond. They are different books, …