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2012/06/10

Chuck Spinney: Drones — Of Idiots, By Idiots, For Idiots + Meta-RECAP

Attached is a really first rate assessment of the real benefits and costs of the American infatuation with drone warfare. The writer, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best reporters now covering the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chuck Spinney Cap Ferat, France America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda World View: …

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2012/06/092012/06/15

Review: The Art of Intelligence – Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service

Henry Crumpton 4.0 out of 5 stars As Good as It Gets From an Approved Insider,June 9, 2012 I write this as a former clandestine case officer who spent 30 years across all of the functions of intelligence less MASINT, and went on to write, edit, and publish nine non-fiction books on the craft of …

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2012/06/042012/06/04

John Steiner: Joseph Stiglitz on 1% Problem and 1% Solution

The 1 Percent’s Problem Why won’t America’s 1 percent—such as the six Walmart heirs, whose wealth equals that of the entire bottom 30 percent—be a bit more . . . selfish? As the widening financial divide cripples the U.S. economy, even those at the top will pay a steep price. By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Vanity …

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2012/06/03

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract II

Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract II OpenBTS is t he open-source software/hardware combination that replicates cellular phone services using open spectrum, enabling free and very low-cost communications. Combined with mesh networks and other means of disconnecting from the government/telecommunications monopoly of the grid, OpenBTS is the foundation “liberation technology” and is central to the release …

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2012/06/012012/06/01

Review: Postmodern Imperialism – Geopolitics and the Great Games

Eric Walberg 5.0 out of 5 stars Capstone Work–Light in Places, Super-Deep in Others, June 1, 2012 I read a lot — across 98 categories (access my Amazon reviews via category at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog). WITHOUT HESITATION, this book is easily a solid five. Early in the book I have it …

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2012/05/302012/05/30

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 1 Open Sesame Extract II

Chapter 1 Open Sesame Extract II Panarchy is an ideal condition in which every individual would be connected to all relevant information and able to participate in every decision of interest to them, from local to global. Panarchy thus represents direct democracy within a nonhierarchical, open-source context. In the ideal state of panarchy, every citizen …

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2012/05/212012/05/22

Review: The Zen Leader – 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly

Ginny Whitelaw 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Stars, Spectacularly SImple, Foundation Book for Epoch B Collective Self-Governance,May 21, 2012 I’ve been a driven over-achiever most of my life, and only started emerging from the “because I said so” culture so characteristic of the Marine Corps and the Central Intelligence Agency, when I realized in …

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