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2010/02/212010/02/21

Review: Willful Neglect–The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security

Final Review: Ground-Level View of Obvious Vulnerabilities and a General Failure to Protect February 10, 2010 [final review 21 February] Sam Faddis My own new book is finally at the printer, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty and I am really enjoying getting back into serial reading. I totally respected and agreed with …

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2010/02/202010/02/20

Review: Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country

Read Fire Side Chat Review–This is Supplemental February 20, 2010 William Greider Very rarely do I find reviews as lengthy as my own. Please read and appreciate the Fireside Chat review that is deservedly popular with readers. I first encountered William Greider while managing the international conference on “National Security and National Competitiveness: Open Source …

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2010/02/132010/02/14

Journal: ClimateGate Update 13 February 2010

World may not be warming, say scientists We concluded, with overwhelming statistical significance, that the IPCC’s climate data are contaminated with surface effects from industrialisation and data quality problems. These add up to a large warming bias,” he said. The Uncertain Fate of the IPCC Opponents of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tried strangling …

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2010/02/112010/02/11

Journal: Haiti Net Assessment as of 11 February 2010

Phi Beta Iota Net Assessment: The US Government succeeded at what it set out to do: evacuate Americans and stabilize the US Embassy. The US Coast Guard, specifically, distinguished itself, but it was not properly managed by the White House. The US Government has failed terribly at the strategic level (not recognizing that massive aid …

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2010/02/102010/02/10

Journal: Haiti Update of 10 February 2010

Good intentions gone wrong Too many aid organizations and an inept government have created a chaotic relief effort in Haiti “The aid machinery currently at work in Haiti keeps too much for overhead for its operations, and still relies overmuch on NGOs or contractors who do not observe the ground rules we would need to …

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2010/02/102010/02/10

Review: The Bhagavad Gita–A Walkthrough for Westerners

Speak the Truth, Lose the Anger, Be Part of the Whole February 10, 2010 Jack Hawley It took me fifty years to recognize the deficiencies of the command and control or top down elite-dominated model of governance, and to discover the spiritual and practical integrity of collective intelligence, openness, appreciative inquirty, deliberative public dilaog, and …

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2010/02/072010/02/07

Journal: Lockheed Mark to Market Pentagon Style

“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …

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