Search Results for “Global Game” – Page 144

2010/02/202011/02/21

Review: SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa

Beyond Six Stars–Hugely Important Useful Collection February 20, 2010 Edited by Sokari Ekine Contributing authors include Redante Asuncion-Reed, Amanda Atwood, Ken Banks, Chrstinia Charles-Iyoha, Nathan Eagle, Sokari Ekine, Becky Faith, Joshua Goldstein, Christian Kreutz, Anil Naidoo, Berna Ngolobe, Tanya Notley, Juliana Rotich, and Bukeni Wazuri This book will be rated 6 Stars and Beyond at …

Continue reading “Review: SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa”

2010/02/092014/01/29

2010: OPINION–America’s Cyber Scam

by Robert David Steele Tuesday, 09 February 2010 It’s time to get real about cybersecurity I am quite certain that a careful examination of all extant SOWs would reveal a degree of obscurity and incoherence confirming that the US Government is engaged in a massive collective self-deception and entertaining bids for vaporware amidst a climate …

Continue reading “2010: OPINION–America’s Cyber Scam”

2010/02/012010/02/01

Journal: Pentagon’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a Metaphor for a Predictable Defense Meltdown

The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …

Continue reading “Journal: Pentagon’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a Metaphor for a Predictable Defense Meltdown”

2010/01/262010/01/26

Journal: Chavez versus CIA–No Contest

Chavez Calls Sentence in CIA’s Online Almanac “A Declaration of War” Against Venezuela If you’ve ever been curious to know any country’s GDP, literacy rate, languages, etc., at a glance, the CIA’s online World Factbook is the place to start. And evidently Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been Googling his own country lately, because he’s …

Continue reading “Journal: Chavez versus CIA–No Contest”

2010/01/202010/01/21

Journal: Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive

A central critique in my book, Defense Facts of Life: the Plans/Reality Mismatch (Westview,1985), what the trend toward increasing technical complexity in the Pentagon’s weapons and organizational arrangements caused all sorts of self destructive pathologiess — which I described in considerable detail and in subsequent studies. I defined “complexity” as a quality of the “whole” …

Continue reading “Journal: Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive”

2009/12/262009/12/26

Search: how could cybernetics help obama to govern

Way cool! First off, the White House is theater. We have no strategy, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not know how to manage, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not know how to produce intelligence (decision-support) for all who have a “need to know.” Until President Barack Obama, whom we pray …

Continue reading “Search: how could cybernetics help obama to govern”

2009/12/202009/12/20

Journal: ClimateGate 20 December 2009 Afternoon

Global Warming as Groupthink The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s process institutionalizes groupthink on a global scale. Follow the money in global warming hoax On the money game, he has stated, “They give an endless amount of money to the side which agrees with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). … If you …

Continue reading “Journal: ClimateGate 20 December 2009 Afternoon”