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2011/02/232011/02/23

Diversity in Wholeness: “We were made different to complete each other…”

Dear friends, Two remarkable presentations of our common humanity and shared predicament showed up in my email today. One is one of the most beautiful and intense videos I’ve ever seen and the other is a glimpse of the global spirit infusing the current uprisings in very diverse nations. Blessings on our shared Journey… Coheartedly, …

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2011/02/212011/02/21

Review: How to Run the World–Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

Parag Khanna Extraordinary Personal Effort, Constrained by Publisher February 21, 2011 I received a copy of this book at my request from the author himself (I am unemployed, and globally available). I gave the author’s first book, The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, a five star leaning …

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2011/02/172011/02/17

CURVEBALL: The Interview + Integrity RECAP

Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi let imagination run wild and became main source for Colin Powell’s case for war in 2003 Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war Admissions vindicate CIA’s former Europe chief Read full article… Phi Beta Iota: The story …

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2011/02/132011/10/22

EGYPT: Can Democracy by Randomly Revolutionized?

Will Egypt Revolutionize Democracy Itself? by Tom Atlee Thomas Friedman suggests that the special strength of Egypt’s youth-led revolutionary movement has been “the fact that it represented every political strain, every segment and class in Egyptian society.” But then he turns around and says that diversity “is also its weakness. It still has no accepted …

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2011/02/092011/02/15

USA National Military Strategy 2011 + RECAP

Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Marcus Aurelius. Comments below the line

2011/02/062011/02/06

Search: doctorate open source intelligence

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is not worth a doctorate. What is worth a doctorate is the ability to meld intelligence and policy-making into a coherent ethical whole. Reflexive practice and comprehensive design are also worth PhDs, both are integrated in principle into the PhD central to the new holistic public policy PhD. Here is one …

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2011/02/05

Search: military intelligence from open sources

This is a classic, and it bears mention that the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) revolution began in the US military. Here is the human in the loop essence that no computer can create. USDI and D/DIA have chosen to ignore their responsibility for OSINT despite General Tony Zinni’s clear cut statement that all that they …

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