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2012/03/202012/03/20

Berto Jongman: Reference (Literature Review) on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

PDF 105 pages Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Literature Review Minerva Nasser-Eddine, Bridget Garnham, Katerina Agostino, Gilbert Caluya Counter Terrorism and Security Technology Centre, Defense Science and Technology Organisation, Department of Defence, Australian Government Phi Beta Iota: Few seem to be able to focus on the foundation of terrorism: illegitimate governance and socio-economic repression. Few seem …

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2012/03/032012/03/03

Robert Steele: Future-Proofing the City

As Wyoming plans for federal collapse (where, exactly, they will put the aircraft carrier remains unresolved), it behooves all of us to spend a little time thinking about “what if” the national supply chains for food and fuel implode. I am not that enthused about the terms “smart city” or even “intelligent city,” but recognize …

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2011/06/292011/06/29

Bandwidth Needs, Bandwidth Options

Part I Internet prime mover Vint Cerf echoes what I’ve been hearing from other architects of the TCP/IP network: we should focus on building much fatter pipes, and get away from the enforced/legacy scarcity and build gigabit broadband networks. Nothing here about the cost of providing gigabit access, nothing here about the fact that much …

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2011/05/232011/05/23

Event: 25 May 1:15 DC C/JCS Mike Mullen to Speak

Admiral Mullen to Speak at Inaugural Event of the Wilson Center’s Lee Hamilton Lecture Series What: Special Event: Inaugural Lee Hamilton Lecture Who: Admiral Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff When: Wednesday, May 25, 1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Where: Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Flom Auditorium See Also: YouTube: Steele to …

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2011/03/022011/03/10

John Seely Brown’s New Culture of Learning and US Unified Community Action Network (US UCAN)

in a world of constant flux a person who is not curious is screwed. John Seeley Brown In the past eight weeks as I have become more familiar with Internet2’s award to build a backbone to connect upwards of 200,000 unified community anchor institutions into a national network and have put this knowledge alongside that …

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2011/01/092011/10/22

Strong Signals: Truth or Tyrannicide + RECAP

Phi Beta Iota: The shooting of an elected official, a judge, and multiple others in Arizona is a strong signal. It was anticipated by the book TYRANNICIDE The Story of the Second American Revolution, a work of fiction that anticipated a nation-wide spree of attacks on elected politicians now known not to represent the public …

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2011/01/092011/01/09

Reference: Harvard Discovers “Shared Value”

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then it appears in the Harvard Business Review, and then you win while Harvard claims it was their idea… Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (apocryphal) The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer How to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a …

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