The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
QUESTIONS: I’m currently working on a chapter on how the assessment of OSINT has changed over time and I think you could provide me with some missing pieces of the puzzle given your expertise in this area and your work in promoting the use of Open Sources. 01 Firstly, from what I have gathered so …
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Connected Forces Initiative (latest NATO HQ initiative, should prioritize future ACT work, currently under initial study) After 2014, NATO is expected to shift its emphasis from operational engagement to operational preparedness. This means NATO will need to remain capable of performing its core tasks – described in its Strategic Concept¹ – and of maintaining its …
Government IT Professionals Not Ready for Big Data Posted: 10 May 2013 05:29 AM PDT It is not a surprise that 97 percent of state and local IT professional expect their data to grow by more than 50 percent over the next two years. However, more than 75 percent of them are only somewhat or …
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A model for all of us. General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis Email About Being ‘Too Busy To Read’ Is A Must-Read Geoffrey Ingersoll In the run up to Marine Gen. James Mattis‘ deployment to Iraq in 2004, a colleague wrote to him asking about the “importance of reading and military history for officers,” many of whom …
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
The Pope Called One of the Foundations of the Global Capitalism System ‘Slavery’ Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned as “slave labour” the conditions for hundreds of workers killed in a factory collapse in Bangladesh and urged political leaders to fight unemployment in a sweeping critique of “selfish profit”. The pope said he had been particularly …
Huh? Treating the Marathon Casualties: Inside One Boston Emergency Room Ellen Harrell TIME, 15 August 2013 EXTRACT: Before long, they had set up a makeshift triage center in the lobby of the ER and began to treat the incoming — sewing up victims’ wounds and sending those with more-serious injuries through to be admitted. “We …
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