The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
China-US-Vietnam: Defense Minister Liang Guanglie held talks with US Defense Secretary Gates in Hanoi on Monday on the sidelines of the 1st ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) on bilateral military ties. Defense Minister Liang invited Gates to visit China early next year, a Chinese official said. Gates accepted the invitation, according to the deputy …
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Knowledge Management Specialties By Stan Garfield (Twitter: @stangarfield) – Revised September 1, 2010 The field of knowledge management includes a wide variety of components and disciplines. Here is a list of 25 specialties practiced by those in the field, followed by Tara Pangakis list of 50 KM components across people, processes, and technologies. Sharing, culture, …
The buzz continues—agile, cloud computing, text analytics, virtualization, open source, cool BI, Web 2.0, social media, mobile BI. But what do these terms really mean for business intelligence and data warehousing? It’s been difficult enough to implement effective and valuable BI/DW solutions with existing technologies. Will these emerging technologies make your job easier or harder? …
Renewed instability in global food markets requires urgent response, UN expert said An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on governments and the international community to promptly tackle the renewed instability of global food markets, noting the related social unrest that has hit some countries in recent weeks. Tip of the Hat to …
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A few thoughts: 1) Information-sharing and sense-making is “root” for multinational operations. 2) Education, intelligence, and research must all be open and multinational in nature. 3) Peaceful preventive measures rooted in open education and intelligence are the foundation. 4) Precision covert and clandestine multinational operations are the intermediate capability. 5) Hybrid operations by all eight …
U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks WikiLeaks release: March 15, 2010 Phi Beta Iota: Click on the title to read their description of the SECRET/NOFORN document entitled Wikileaks.org – An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, Or Terrorist Groups? dated 18 March 2008, evidently out of the U.S. Army. The document is no longer …
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Core selection, not a substitute for the master works August 28, 2010 Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl (editors) Published by the National Geographic in 2003, this is an edited work with several but not all of the greats brought together. The short pieces are a fine collage for undergraduate reading and discussion but the book …
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