John Steiner: Bottom-Up Distributed Resilient / Sustainable Communities

Email Extract: The movement is stronger than ever – and hundreds of these sites are now over 20 years old, and are the primary shapers of local/regional policy. Hope you are well. Left you a VM re convergence last eve. • A distributed non-centralized movement of thousands of “healthy / livable / sustainable community” initiatives …

Marcus Aurelius: C/JCS Asks SecDef to Forgive General Who Spent Lavishly as Commander of African Command – Starting Point for Reflection

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff apparently figures former AFRICOM commander should get a walk after DoD IG publishes damning report on him.  Read report, too large to e-mail, at link below and form your own conclusions. Strange because MG Ward is not a West Pointer.  Of course, case against toxic leader LTG Patrick …

Berto Jongman: Kosovo – Crime without Punishment, Power without Responsibility

Crime without punishment, power without responsibility – Kosovo, international policy and the rule of law Unless the international community demonstrates it is serious abouthuman rights, restitution and disrupting organised crime and criminality, its current policy of stability in place of justice can only continue to fuel both injustice and instability. Learn more about the principles …

Search: solutions for prosperous world UPDATED to include readings & contact info

Updated 29 October 2012 to include frequent search request “readings about solutions for a prosperous world” also added skype and email contact info New integrated search term:  readings about solutions for a prosperous world The proven process of intelligence is not secret, not federal, and not expensive.  Thinking is free.  What matters is the strategic …

Reflections on Inspectors General

Short URL:  http://tinyurl.com/Steele-IG Executive Reading (Printable 10-Pages): 2013 Steele Reflections on Inspectors-General 1.7 Updated 6 October 2012 Version 1.7 When I was selected for an interview to be the Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (DISL) for Human Intelligence (HUMINT) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), it was General Ron Burgess, USA  and Ms. Tish Long that …

Gold Transformer: Federal Reserve Transparency Ploy, End of the Middle Period in Predatory Central Banking — Fed Cannot Account for $9 Trillion + Meta-RECAP

  Ben Bernanke’s Fed Transparency … Transparent Ploy? Monday, September 24, 2012 – by Staff Report Under Ben Bernanke, a more open and forceful Federal Reserve … In what might be his final years as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke is transforming the U.S. central bank, seeking to shed its reclusive habits …