The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Chuck Spinney sends…. The Afghan debacle is becoming a case study of how political debate in Versailles drips in a naturally self-organizing way to protect the dysfunctional status quo. As I indicated yesterday and in September, the fundamental flaw that set the stage for the current policy making fiasco was the unexamined analytical hole in …
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Berto Jongman Recommends: Impacts of Climate Change: A System Vulnerability Approach (2007) By Nils Gilman, Peter Schwartz, Doug Randall Over the past two decades, and especially in the last few years, climate change has become one of the most heavily researched subjects in science. Yet climate change impact studies remain at the low end of …
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This is an extraordinarily exciting Search, and we deeply regret not having the time to devote to creating a new article on this topic. Here therefore are a few humble thoughts. If the leadership of Gujarat Province were to offer us a job testing and developing this in India, we would be on the next …
Chuck Spinney Sends… America’s diplomatic recipe for winning the hearts and minds of “furriners” in the 21st Century: Mix – Blind unreasoning fear with the Domestic politics of privatizing embassy protection and the Domestic politics of huge construction contracts into neat grand-strategic soufflé, then bake it in the domestic political-economic oven of heated by the coals of the …
Cash for Clunkers Actual Cost: $24,000 per Car By Chip Hanlon | 11/02/09 Auto industry research firm, Edmunds, says the program actually cost $24,000 per car! In summary: the administration loves to tout the 690,000 vehicles sold in July and August, but the Edmunds report says that only 125,000 (18%) of those sales were incremental, meaning the …
New Study Reveals Connection Between Enforcing Immigration Laws and National Security Friday, October 30, 2009 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer A new study by the conservative think tank Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals the connection between enforcing immigration laws and national security – sometimes in chilling detail. Phi Beta Iota: It’s all connected. …
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Asean CIOs list biz intelligence top priority By Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia Friday, October 23, 2009 03:07 PM CIOs view leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision making as a top priority, according to an IBM study, which polled IT heads in Asia and across the globe. Released Thursday, the …
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