The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Arab spring, act two Are the Arab monarchies next? As the chaotic transition towards democracy continues in North Africa and Yemen, the fighting in Syria is intensifying. And, less noticed, opposition to the Arab monarchies is growing. by Hicham Ben Abdallah El Alaoui Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2012 The Arab Spring is not an outcome, …
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Open education has at least three components: free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time). More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous. Open education has …
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Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-IG Executive Reading (Printable 10-Pages): 2013 Steele Reflections on Inspectors-General 1.7 Updated 6 October 2012 Version 1.7 When I was selected for an interview to be the Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (DISL) for Human Intelligence (HUMINT) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), it was General Ron Burgess, USA and Ms. Tish Long that …
Daniel T. Rodgers 4.0 out of 5 stars An entire book without the words “corruption” or “paradigm failure”,August 19, 2012 I bought this book expecting it to be a six star special, and then was tempted to drop it to three stars for completely missing the point. I’ve settled on four. It is a brilliant …
Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy 4.0 out of 5 stars Kum Ba Ya Reaches Its Peak,August 14, 2012 This book was recommended to me by Dr. Patrick Meier, perhaps the greatest English-language convergence point for crowd-sourcing in all languages, crisis mapping, and sustainable resilience, but I have found it to be a real disappointment–this …
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Become a (Social Media) Data Donor and Save a Life I was recently in New York where I met up with my colleague Fernando Diaz from Microsoft Research. We were discussing the uses of social media in humanitarian crises and the various constraints of social media platforms like Twitter vis-a-vis their Terms of Service. And then this …
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2012 Robert Steele Answers PhD Student Questions Five page document above. Below is full text online for ease of automated translation.
