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2009/12/062009/12/06

Journal: National Intelligence? Revolution in Military Affairs? A Stock-Taking

Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years. Gates made the comment in an interview to be aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” The Counter-Revolution In Military Affairs I (2009) …

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2009/12/052009/12/05

Search: Knowledge Policy

Cass Sunstein is a very good person, but he will die on the vine at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bruce McConnell’s old job (Bruce spoke at OSS ’92, along with Arnie Donahue, nothing has changed since then). Knowledge policy is best understood at three levels:

2009/12/032009/12/05

Journal: ClimateGate, Copenhagen, Integrity

Climategate: Science Is Dying (WS) The East Anglians’ mistreatment of scientists who challenged global warming’s claims—plotting to shut them up and shut down their ability to publish—evokes the attempt to silence Galileo. The exchanges between Penn State’s Michael Mann and East Anglia CRU director Phil Jones sound like Father Firenzuola, the Commissary-General of the Inquisition. …

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2009/12/032009/12/03

Reference: Measuring Success and Failure in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism–US Government Metrics of the Global War on Terror (GWOT)

Alex P. Schmid, one of a handful of trully expert scholars in the field of terrorism and counter-terrorism, and his colleague Rashmi Singh, have created a summary that is devasting on multiple fronts. The “Global War on Terror” or GWOT has lasted longer than World Wars I and II combined; the money expended (the authors …

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2009/12/022010/12/25

Graphic: Multi-Lateral Sharing

This is a 2000-2002 slide that bears on the extraordinary possibilities inherent in creating a global multinational open source information sharing and sense-making grid. The 80-20 rule really does seem to stand up under most circumstances. White Hat (Stabilization & Reconstruction, Peaceful Preventive Measures) are especially responsible to shared open source information across all boundaries. …

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2009/12/012009/12/02

Search: QDR “four forces after next”

Quotes don’t seem to add anything to the Word Press search engine, but even without quotes this does not come up. Separating QDR from four forces does produce partial results. Below is the core orignal graphic. Today, with the deflation of the dollar by 50% in the past ten years, these numbers would be doubled, …

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2009/11/292009/11/29

Review: Ecological Intelligence–How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Hardcover)

From 4 to Five for Gifted Story and Amazon Price Cut November 29, 2009 Daniel Goleman I chose this book over Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature and seeing the author’s note about this other book “by a physician, Jungian analyst, and poet” am certain I made the right choice. The author’s “big idea” is …

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