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Definitions: Spatial Referencing System (SRS)

A spatial referencing system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a coordinate-based local, regional or global system used to locate geographical entities. Some of systems in existence are: Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system British national grid reference system Irish grid reference system Irish Transverse Mercator Israeli Transverse Mercator Israeli Cassini Soldner Jordan Transverse Mercator …

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Journal: What Al Qaeda Et Al Can and Cannot Do

The Meaning Of Al Qaeda’s Double Agent:  The jihadists are showing impressive counterintelligence ability that the CIA seems to have underestimated. Wall Street Journal Reuel Marc Gerecht January 8, 2010  [safety copy of entire piece below the fold] Amid the Hysteria, A Look at What al-Qaeda Can’t Do TIME Magazine By Peter Beinart Monday, Jan. 18, …

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Review: SAVAGE CAPITALISM AND THE MYTH OF DEMOCRACY–Latin America in the Third Millennium

Fast Read, Ground Truth, Moral Truth, Priceless Insights January 5, 2010 Michael Hogan I received this book as a gift from the author after I reviewed Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, and I am very glad to have accepted his offer. At 218 pages double-spaced it is …

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Journal: Evaluating the Gaza Confrontation

The American strategist and military reformer Colonel John Boyd argued that nations and groups should shape their domestic policies, foreign policies, and military strategies so that they: pump up one’s own resolve and increase one’s own solidarity, drain away the resolve of one’s adversaries and weaken their internal cohesion, reinforce the commitments of allies to …

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Journal: Director of National Intelligence Alleges….

Strengthening Our Nation’s Front Line Of Defense By Dennis C. Blair Friday, December 18, 2009 Phi Beta Iota:  This is a seriously misleading article, our comments are provided after each paragraph. The legislation authorizing post-Sept. 11 intelligence reform — the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 — was signed into law five years …

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Journal: ClimateGate 16 December 2009 Morning

Africa wants climate change funding of $100 bln a year by 2020 PM Kevin Rudd Is a Climate Change Lier! – Say China’s, G77 and India India’s Copenhagen Envoy Unyielding on Costs Climate change summit leaves sceptical Russia cold US changes stall Copenhagen negotiations Climate Change Conference President Steps Down The move was simply because …

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