The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dear Friends I am quite excited about the progress that has been made in various citizen political participation proposals. All of these clearly have tremendous potential and the articulations of their rationales are becoming quite compelling. With such innovative deliberative democracy proposals, I want them to be thought through well beforehand, engaging a variety of …
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Complexity, Sharks & Risk Consultants – How “Internal Auditor” Magazine Got It Wrong They got it wrong…. Internal Auditor recently published an article by Neil Baker “Managing the Complexity of Risk” claiming that “The ISO 31000 framework aims to provide a foundation for effective risk management within the organization.” Well….not so fast. “Complexity” has become something …
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British press report, unusually thorough, but miss the core point: why so many sent into combat in a single very old, very slow transport helicopter. Special forces helicopter shot down in Afghanistan was on a mission to rescue U.S. Army Rangers Daily Mail, 7 August 2011 Chopper brought down in rocket attack was on its …
Cofer Black Says Threat Posed by Hackers Same as Pre-9/11 Terrorism Public Intelligence Net, 4 August 2011 not to be confused with Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog Ex-CIA official sounds alarm about hackers’ next targets (CNN): The former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending “code war” in …
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29 July Koko: US Government Suspends Scientist For Integrity Inquiry – Who Suspends the USG? 2 August Scientist suspension is about project’s management The government’s new new story: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government suspended an Arctic biologist over how he awarded a polar bear research project to the University of Alberta and its …
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Attached 17-page (12 plus footnotes) paper is worth reading. Much to agree with, little to dispute. Major thesis is that Army has, since about 1989, transformed from a citizen force that may go nowhere for decades to a professional legion that deploys operationally on a routine basis. The single part that most seized me is that …
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References to an Open Source Agency (OSA) General Comment: as presented to non-governmental groups including Amazon, Gnomedex Bloggers, Hackers on Planet Earth, etcetera, the Open Source Agency (OSA) would be the proponent for everything open beginning with the four central opens necessary for Open Government: Open Source Software, Open Spectrum, Open Data Access, and Open …
