The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE 11 December 2012: The report is now out. The below commentary was posted 12 December 2011, one year prior to the final report. Global Trends 2030: Full Copy (166 Pages) Here, Review by Robert Steele — Report Lauds Fracking as Energy Solution, Disappoints on Multiple Fronts Although Global Trends 2030 will not be released …
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Baruch Fischhoff and Cherie Chauvin (eds.) Insider/Academic/Psychology Overview, Avoids the Negatives,July 25, 2011 First off, this book is not being offered by Amazon but rather by third party sellers seeking to leverage public ignorance. The book is available for $70 instead of $130 at National Academies Press, where it is also available for free by …
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PDF at Source (NDU) Phi Beta Iota: David Moore is one of a tiny handful of pioneers that remain employed within the US Intelligence Community, but like Carmen Medina, Carol Dumaine, Andy Shepard and others, the “establishment” cannot comprehend anything anti-thetical to business as usual. This is a good book, it merits careful study, along …
ODNI DESCRIBES EMERGING TOOLS FOR DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS Several intelligence community initiatives to develop improved tools for data search, analysis and fusion were described in the latest report to Congress (pdf) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on data mining. A new program called DataSphere is intended “to aid in the discovery …
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Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations National Research Council, 2011 Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences National Research Council, 2011 Phi Beta Iota: There is nothing in either of these that Jack Davis, Stephen Andriole, Andy Shepard, and a whole lot of others do not already know. Going through …
According to a 16 February piece in the New York Times by Mark Lander, “President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday.” Participants included …
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Not on the site, but always appreciated as a lead, the event has taken place so it will not be placed in Events. Rule one with Word Press is to do short simple searches. Global Challenges Forum does NOT produce the sought after conference but see the interesting results in related hits by clicking on …
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