The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Aid organizations are announcing with great pride that they will feed two million over the new two weeks. What they don’t say is that is 143,000 a day–assuming best case circumstances, sucks for those they don’t reach in the last ten days of those fourteen days—the last day of which will be roughly thirty days …
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: Morocco looks for economic development, taxation 01/26/10 AA: Pilot error may have been factor in Ethiopian airliner disaster 01/26/10 AA: Rwanda’s genocide leader ‘lives freely in France’ 01/24/10 NG: Nigerian naval helicopter crashes; 4 …
Continue reading “AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 26 January 2010”
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics CN: China’s Scary Space Ambitions 01/20/10 CN: Dam forces relocations of 300000 more 01/20/10 CN: Jailing of dissident in China casts doubts on Hong Kong’s autonomy 01/20/10 ID: The Indonesian military and its business interests …
Continue reading “PACOM Week in Review Ending 23 January 2010”
Phi Beta Iota: What all of these headlines have in common is the failure of Epoch A “leadership” or what Peggy Noonan has called the failure of institutions and Robert Steele called the paradigms of failure. Top-down command & control is incapable of meshing with bottom-up complexity that demands clarity, diversity, integrity, and legitimacy in …
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Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: Cuba, China, Venezuela send immediate assistance 01/20/10 AA: Oscar Heck: The Colombian government is NOT avoiding an armed conflict… 01/17/10 AA: UN report paints grim picture of conditions of world’s indigenous peoples 01/21/10 AA: …
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Dear Pat Robertson, I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it …
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