Yoda: $16 Trillion Or So – Opportunity Costs & Integrity Lost

QE For the People: What Else Could We Buy With $29 Trillion?   (September 24, 2012) Central banks could be helping communities instead of enriching predatory, parasitic “too big to fail” banks and financial feudalism. In a system that depends on lies and the credulity of the citizenry, the greatest lie is that the Federal …

OSI Vision Integrity Value: Robert David Steele The Open Source Everything Manifesto

Robert David Steele: The Open Source Everything Manifesto A few months ago we were approached by Robert David Steele, pitching his book “The Open Source Everything Manifesto”. He came to us because our name, Open Spectrum. Apparently it  resonated with the message he has spent the last decade putting forward. At first, I wasn’t sure what to …

Jon Lebkowsky: Bad Pharma – Lacking Intelligence AND Integrity

According to Cory Doctorow at bOING bOING, physicians often prescribe drugs that are ineffective or harmful because pharmaceutical companies provide misleading data, according to an article by Ben Goldacre in the Guardian, “The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal.” Goldacre is the author of the forthcoming book Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors …

Richard Wright: Intelligence with Integrity – Not in Our Lifetime – Plus Steele on Soft Landing

Responding to David Isenberg: Intelligence On Demand in a Mobile Device – Hardy Har Har Choke Cough Gag Robert, Your comments are absolutely correct. Here are some supplemental thoughts on this: The use of mobile devices to provide intelligence to policy makers is a very superficial concept that ignores the more important question of content. …

Chuck Spinney: USGS Intelligence with Integrity on Climate Change

Below is a USGS press release describing some fascinating geological research into the effects of climate change — a huge drought — on the demise of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom around 4200 years ago.  This is one extreme climate event occurred well before man contributed significant CO2 to the atmosphere.  It is also a interesting example …

Winslow Wheeler: USAF Lies Big on F-22, Sacrifices Pilots, Zero Integrity

I have spoken to several people who have been closely following the problem of the F-22’s extremely serious physiological impact on its own pilots and ground crew.  Not one of these people found Major General Charles Lyon’s performance last week in a DOD briefing convincing.  If anything the general’s assertion that the problems can all be …