The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Defining ‘resilience’ as an innovation strategy By Reena Jana | October 18, 2012, 5:51 PM PDT CAMDEN, ME — On a chilly October day, a stone’s throw from a postcard-perfect New England harbor and across from an adorable town square, a group that included chief executives, grad students, physicians, public-school educators, activists, scientists, and artists …
Mind the (Skills) Gap by William D. Eggers, John Hagel and Owen Sanderson Harvard Business Review | 9:00 AM September 21, 2012 A bachelor’s degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. Yet today, the skills college graduates acquire during college have an expected shelf life of only five years according to …
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Are US armed forces “the best in the world”? What makes you think so? Not All That It Can Be The myth of American military superiority. WINSLOW WHEELER Foreign Policy | OCTOBER 11, 2012 EXTRACT: We also heard a lot of bombast after the first war with Iraq, Operation Desert Storm in 1991; then, the …
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Obama terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals Total US strikes: 349 Obama strikes: 297 Total reported killed: 2,593-3,365 Read full article and see data sidebars. Whither Suicide Bombings? Exponential growth in suicide attacks since 2001 shows that they have increasingly become a practical tool in a large variety of intra-national …
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Who hasn’t gotten excited about a new Internet service, only to discover that it falls short on free software values? The Web is full of services for posting, sharing and commenting on media, but most of them require you to run nonfree software or share your data with third parties on their terms. It seems …
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There are 6 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide There are now almost as many cell phone subscriptions as people. A new report on global technology development by the International Telecommunication Union found that there were 6 billion mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011 — 7 billion people inhabit Earth. China and India each have …
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Special Comment: A Brief History of Indicators Analysis Compilation, examination and analysis of indicators of a nation’s war preparations, collectively, are the oldest structured analytical discipline in continuous use by elements of the intelligence agencies since 1947. The discipline began in World War II and British defense intelligence maintained it ever since. After World War …
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