The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
National Defense University’s Convergence I have been writing on attention conservation for the last four years, having first heard of the concept within Bruce Sterling’s Viridian Design Notes. Sterling used this term as a label for an initial few lines of summary on each note, basically negative information regarding the content, permitting those who would not …
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PeerPoint An Open P2P Requirements Definition and Design Specification Proposal Google Doc created June 6, 2012 Last updated October 19, 2012 PeerPoint shares a vision of “Sovereign Computing”: “To be the true owner of your information and of your computer’s hardware resources, as well as to share these things in any way you want and …
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QUESTIONS: I’m currently working on a chapter on how the assessment of OSINT has changed over time and I think you could provide me with some missing pieces of the puzzle given your expertise in this area and your work in promoting the use of Open Sources. 01 Firstly, from what I have gathered so …
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This email builds on the information in my 8 May email entitled, The Real Scare in Syria Is Not Chemical Weapons.” Attached below is a post from Joshua Landis’s Syria Comment blog. Landis is a professor at the University of Oklahoma and a specialist on Syria — his blog often provides useful, insightful information. Particularly …
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I visited Levantine Syria [1] for three memorable days in 2008 and was struck by the welcoming, friendly nature of the Syrian people, their effusive pride in Syria’s multicultural heritage, and a pervasive atmosphere of optimism. I had the impression Syria was emerging from the darkness of the Hafez Assad dictatorship. To be sure, his …
Missing from all this is the OSC/M4IS2 solution. Global networks must be redesigned May 2, 2013 Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disasters. For example, today’s quick spreading of emerging epidemics is largely a result of …
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Joseph G. Bock 5.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering Work, Deserves a Great Deal of Attention, April 29, 2013 I am shocked that there are no reviews of this book. Brought to my attention by Berto Jongman, one of the top researchers in Europe with a special talent at the intersection of terrorism and related …
