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2011/09/062011/09/06

Paul Fernhout: How Security Clearance Process Harms National Security by Eradicating Cognitive Diversity

This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …

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2011/09/042011/09/04

Koko: Academic Ranking of World Universities 2011

Koko Signs: Not a sign of any university that is actually holistic and committed to integrating knowledge. All are being evaluated on the basis of their many stovepipes of knowledge. In the Maryland, District of Columbia-Virginia region, the following appear with their rank as shown. 18 Johns Hopkins University 38 University of Maryland, College Park …

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2011/09/03

Berto Jongman: Iraq Suicide Bombing Results + RECAP

Open source assessment of a devastating terrorist tactic. Free But Must Register or full PDF 2011-09-03 Iraq Suicide Attack Study 200 coalition soldiers were killed in 79 suicide bomb events during 2003–10. More Iraqi civilians per lethal event were killed than were coalition soldiers (12 vs 3; p=0·004). Suicide bombers in Iraq kill significantly more …

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2011/09/03

David Isenberg (Military): Government Contractors at War

War and Private Contractors: Can’t Live with Them, Can’t Live Without Them David Isenberg Huffington Post, 9/2/2011 EXTRACT: The number of Department of Defense (Defense), Department of State (State), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractor employees in Iraq and Afghanistan has varied, but exceeded 260,000 in 2010. The contractor employee count has …

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2011/09/03

Reference: Rise of the Stupid Network–Overturning Industrial Era Assumptions on Computation and Bandwidth Now Cheap and Plentiful

Source (PDF 8 Pages) See Also: Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: David Isenberg (Network)

2011/09/03

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: David Isenberg (Network)

In 1997, David S. Isenberg wrote an essay entitled, “The Rise of the Stupid Network: Why the Intelligent Network Was a Good Idea Once But Isn’t Anymore.” In it, Dr. Isenberg, then a distinguished member of technical staff at AT&T Laboratories, examined the technological bases of the existing telecom business model, laid out how the …

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2011/08/292011/08/29

Worth a Look: YouTube on Awakening & Truth

A few trending items that run counter to the establishment predeliction to continue doing the wrong things. All very short. What is Truth? … The Four Global Truths: An Introduction Spiritual Awakening – Which is the world you are living? … AWAKENING Consciousness: Mind Over Matter … Experiments in Consciousness Toward Integral Consciousness