WInslow Wheeler: Congressional Deception on Pentagon Pork [PBI: Until DoD Down to $400B a Year, 50% Waste is Order of the Day]
“Omnibus” Information and Commentary Paper: What Did the Appropriators Really Do to Defense Spending? Bottom line: At $600B plus, DoD is a pig — easily 40% waste. Summary of Findings:
Jon Rappaport: Art, imagination, and magic
Art, imagination, and magic Logic applies to the physical universe. It applies to statements made about that universe. It applies to factual language. Many wonderful things can be done with logic. Don’t leave home without it. Don’t analyze information without it. But art and imagination are of another universe(s). They can deploy logic, but they …
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Andrew Garfield: War and T/Error: The U.S. Counter-propaganda Failure in Iraq
Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2007) pp. 23-32. by Andrew Garfield Defeat of the insurgency and terrorism in Iraq requires not only a military approach but also a political component. Although the “surge” may stabilize parts of Iraq and reduce the level of violence while the additional troops remain in place, long-term stability requires a more …
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Mindjet: 10 Reasons Visualization Rocks
10 Reasons Visualization Rocks Here at Mindjet, we think visualising information rocks — but more importantly, there’s a whole load of scientific proof as to why people find it so much easier to digest and work with information that’s displayed visually, rather than in traditional formats such as documents and spreadsheets. I’ve scoured the Web …
James Stavrides: Interview on Smart Power by Oliver Barrett
Talking ‘Smart Power’ With Admiral Stavridis By Oliver Barrett US News & World Report, July 25, 2013 With one-liners like, “We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas,” it is not hard to appreciate why The New York Times labeled recently retired Admiral James Stavridis a “Renaissance admiral.” Labels like “innovator” …
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Robin Good: Supermap of Over 400 Content Curation Services
If you are looking for your ideal content curation toolkit here is my new completely updated supermap, listing in over 30 categories all of the tools and services you may need to curate any content, from video to news. This new supermap includes all of the tools and services that were already listed on NewsMaster …
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