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2011/02/18

NIGHTWATCH Extracts & Corrective Observations

North Korea/China: Why public intelligence matters more than Chinese blocking of UN information. Bahrein: Corrects erroneous view that Egyptian Army was “insubordinate and policized” in contrast to the disciplined and brutally repressive Bahrein forces. Egypt: Excellent overview on Workers, Brotherhood, the naive young–and corrective comment on why US Government is failing to get it right …

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2011/02/172011/02/17

Obama in a Strategic & Intellectual Vacuum

No intelligence, no strategy, no nothing. For this we pay taxes? In U.S. Signals to Egypt, Obama Straddled a Rift (NYT) Summary: State still loves dictators, has no idea what is going on with the young and the restless. Intelligence is no where to be found. Bottom line is that the President, who appears to …

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2011/02/172011/02/17

Structuring Strategic Decision Support Intelligence

According to a 16 February piece in the New York Times by Mark Lander, “President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday.” Participants included …

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2011/02/172011/02/17

US Intelligence Unwitting of Most Open Sources

From my friends at Intelligence Online…. Used extensively by protesters in Egypt and Tunisia, Facebook and other social networking websites contain a wealth of useful intelligence. However, knowing how to exploit that information is another matter. During a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 4, Senator Dianne Feinstein complained to Stephanie …

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2011/02/152011/10/22

NO LABELS Fraud Reprise….Hypocrisy Round II Mike Bloomberg Fiddling While David Walker Burns Money and Loses Time?

No Labels to tackle hyper-partisanship, fiscal responsibility, election reform Ken Bingenheimer National Common Ground Examiner February 14th, 2011 1:28 pm ET After soliciting the thoughts of its members, the No Labels organization has settled upon three areas of focus for the group’s efforts: Policing partisan politics, promoting fiscal responsibility, and election reform. No Labels founding …

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2011/02/122011/02/12

Search: ladder of inference senge

Searches are how we harness the distributed intelligence of our visitors. Thank you for this. On this site, the search produces one reference to Senge: Review: The Necessary Revolution–How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world. On the wider web, your search helps bring back to this site and its collective, …

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2011/02/102011/02/10

How Military Spending Drains & Distorts Economy

When American Conservative Magazine and a senior Fellow of the Ludvig von Mises Institute collaborate to produce a dynamite article that builds on and reinforces the great work of my friend, the late Professor Seymour Melman of Columbia University, a card-carrying liberal, you know it is time to sit up and read it carefully. Below …

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