The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Real book, real facts, desperately needs visualization August 29, 2010 Robert Glennon I was torn between a four and a five and came down on the side of five because this is a real book with real facts and real interviews and it covers a vital topic very ably. I was tempted to drop to …
Continue reading “Review: Unquenchable–America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It”
6 Star Plus Foundation Work, August 28, 2010 Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke I read the authors’ more recent Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water yesterday and watched the also more recent Blue Gold: World Water Wars last night, all in the context of raeding 12 …
Continue reading “Review: Blue Gold–The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water”
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has a requirement to provide a secured, hosted environment that provides web-based access to geospatial visualization services and Open Geospatial Consortium complaint web service interfaces. The Schedule of Supplies/Services provides for the period of performance from 20 September 2010 through 19 September 2011 and two 12-month option years. This acquisition …
New York Daily News August 17, 2010 Pg. 18 Fired McChrystal Gets Yale Grad School Gig WASHINGTON — Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the too-outspoken Afghan commander sacked by President Obama, picked up a consolation prize yesterday from the Ivy League. Yale announced McChrystal would teach a “ leadership seminar” for grad students. McChrystal said …
Continue reading “Journal: General McCrystal Wins, US Troops Lose”
How News Organizations Should Prepare for Data Dumps PBS MediaShift Idea Lab 2 August 2010 by Martin Moore 5 Questions Here are just five (of many) questions news orgs should ask themselves when they get their next data dump: 1. How do we harness public intelligence to generate a long tail of stories? Though the …
Combines Holistic Thinking with Drill-Down Detail August 1, 2010 Heather Rogers This is a solid five in my view because the author goes beyond weaving a story about green gone wrong in three main areas (food, shelter, transportation), providing what almost all other books miss: the systems of systems “its all connected” and “what’s good …
Phi Beta Iota: With the utmost respect for both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (C/JCS) and the Secretary of Defense (SecDef), their “outrage” is nonsense–nothing more than political theater. On BBC, the moderately intelligent evening news, this is right up there with the French mom who murdered eight babies. 1. The Taliban …
Continue reading “Journal: Shoot the Messenger–Not the Originators”
