The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
It is harder to organise a political movement to help young people than old people. Young people are less susceptible to being organised and they lack the patience for the hard graft of a long political campaign. They are more likely to be seduced by the weak ties of social networking and the false promise …
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WordPress search results are presented in reverse chronological order, and osint is a very old concept, since replaced by M4IS2. OSINT is also only relevant in the context of a larger contruct, ethical evidence-based decisions in support of policy, acquisition, and operations. Our understanding is that the US Government has eliminated the ADDNI/OS position and …
Eric Beerbohm is assistant professor of government and social studies and director of graduate fellowships for the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. “Are citizens in a democracy complicit in the injustices perpetrated by a state that acts in their name? Yes they are, argues Eric Beerbohm. In Our Name is a major statement …
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Max Manwaring 5.0 out of 5 stars A Capstone Book — Still a Disconnect Between What We Know and What We Do, October 20, 2012 John Fishel opens the book with a valuable contextual overview that reminds us of the preceding volumes that Max has put together: Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime: Shadows from the Past …
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Huh? The future of the USA – 2012-2016: An insolvent and ungovernable United States (first part) Thus, according to LEAP/E2020, the 2012 election year, which opens against the backdrop of economic and social depression, complete paralysis of the federal system (3), strong rejection of the traditional two-party system and a growing questioning of the relevance …
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Reed Business Information: A convincing economic, political and cultural analysis of waning Western dominance and the rise of China and a new paradigm of modernity. Jacques (The Politics of Thatcherism) takes the pulse of the nation poised to become, by virtue of its scale and staggering rate of growth, the biggest market in the world. …
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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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