The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Paul Craig Roberts: The real unemployment rates – a study in information credibility Official Unemployment: U.3 8.1% Mid-Term Real Unemployment: U-6 14.7% Actual Unemployment (All): 22.4% and rising Includes analysis of the new jobs (not enough to provide for those new to the employment market such as immigrants and graduates). Bottom line: bar tenders and …
The two below references have finally been updated and the original PDFs are now online (they were lost when site moved from Sweden and previous oss.net shortcuts were lost). NEW: 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) OLD: http://www.oss.net/OSINT-S Introduction OSINT and Intelligence Reform – History – Requirements – Collection – Processing – Analysis – Covert Action …
INTEL-ON-DEMAND IN A WEB 2.0 WORLD IntelNews / by Timothy W Coleman Aug 21 2012 ► Aug 11. In the United States, the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), “the highest-level intelligence analysis targeted at the key national security issues and concerns of the President”, is increasingly going digital. For that matter, so is much of the …
Theory-based impact evaluation: principles and practice June 2009 Calls for rigorous impact evaluation has been accompanied by the quest for what works and why. Howard White identifies six principles for the successful application of the approach — mapping out the causal chain (programme theory), understanding the context, anticipating heterogeneity, rigorous evaluation of impact using a …
Continue reading “Bojan Radej: Causal Link Sortfalls in Evidence-Based Development”
Only a few weeks ago, most western observers had written off Mohamed Morsi, the new President of Egypt and a moderate member of the Muslim Brotherhood, as a stooge who would dance to the tune of the military rulers of the Egyptian deep state. That view is rapidly changing. Morsi quickly consolidated power by forcing …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Egypt Emergent, Syria Sidelined, Palestian Justice Ready or Not….”
Huh? Phi Beta Iota: As President Barack Obama faces what David Gergen calls one of three “choice” or turning point elections in modern US history, one has to wonder where he stands on the subject of the truth. Below the line is a methodical review with many links from retired Marine Corps officer Jim Fetzer, …
Continue reading “Mini-Me: Marine Officer on 9/11 – The Anomalies Continue to Surface”
Online Pricing: Well, Who Knows? I read “Doubling SaaS Revenue by Changing the Pricing Model.” If you are involved in charging for online pricing, you will want to work through this write up by the founder of Kalzumeus Software. What makes the article valuable is its real world data. The article describes a “highly configurable …
