Patrick Meier: Creating Resilience through Big Data

How to Create Resilience Through Big Data I’ve been invited by PopTech and the Rockefeller Foundation to give the opening remarks at an upcoming event on interdisciplinary dimensions of resilience, which is  being hosted at Georgetown University. This event is connected to their new program focus on “Creating Resilience Through Big Data.” I’m absolutely de-lighted to be involved …

Marcus Aurelius: The Four Business Gangs That Run (Loot) the US + 4 Books

The four business gangs that run the US Ross Gittins Sydney Herald, December 31, 2012 IF YOU’VE ever suspected politics is increasingly being run in the interests of big business, I have news: Jeffrey Sachs, a highly respected economist from Columbia University, agrees with you – at least in respect of the United States. In …

Mini-Me: Kerry-Hagel as Obama Attempt to Change Direction Away from War and Toward Domestic Reconstruction

Huh? A view of what’s really behind Hagel nomination fight From CNN’s “Early Start” January 8, 2013 EXTRACT: CNN: Peter wrote what I think is (one of the) most … interesting and compelling articles about the Hagel nomination, explaining it perhaps better than anyone I’ve seen, including the president. The first paragraph of the piece, …

David Isenberg: Iran – Nuclear Dog That Cannot Bark

Iran: the Nuclear Dog that can’t Bark By David Isenberg LobeLog Foreign Policy, 7 January 2012 Apart from death and taxes, one other thing has also appeared inevitable, at least for the past two decades: Iran will acquire a nuclear weapons capability. Yet, despite all the near frantic demands for sanctions, clandestine action, sabotage, and …

DefDog: Panetta at Press Club — Pathetic! & Comment by Robert Steele with Remedial Reading List

While touted as strategy, I fail to see any, more like wishful thinking and hope…..and as we all know, Hope is Not a Strategy…. Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON E. PANETTA:  Thank you very much, Theresa, for that kind introduction.  And thank you for the …

Review: Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations

Jospeh P. Farrell 5.0 out of 5 stars This is an Information Operations / Counterintelligence Hidden Gem, December 23, 2012 The cover does this book a dis-service. This is a SERIOUS book that should be used in serious courses of instruction for both Information Operations (IO) and Counterintelligence (CI). The book lacks an index, a …