The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Important note to readers: This differs from the published version. I made one really dumb error (bold below) and corrected a few typos and added some hotlinks to aid referencing. I apologize for my inexcusable mistake. Chuck Spinney July 5, 2011 Perpetual Motion Why the War Machine Keeps on Running By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, …
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Analysis: Serial shocks forcing world to “think long” By Mike Dolan LONDON, Jun | Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:44am EDT (Reuters) – Thrown by a mounting series of extreme events over the past four years, global policymakers and investors are being urged to think long and prepare more systematically for the worst. . . . …
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Viva The Revolution in Analytics! Viva Performance Analytics! A Shameless Parody Warning: This parody is a shameless exploitation of Bogart’s “Treasure of Sierra Madre” and Hemingway’s “Old Man & The Sea.” It pokes fun at the rising elite of consulting, i.e. those involved with performance analytics or “the revolution in analytics.” Yet it raises serious …
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While the U.S. government may be described as a massive wealth transferring scheme, looting the middle class for the elite, I’d suggest that ‘wealth’ and ‘elite’ are not precisely correct. The transformation in Western power structures over past three centuries is such that the ‘elite’ was formerly indistinguishable from the government, which is the hallmark …
Russell Ackoff 5.0 out of 5 stars “There are no simple solutions to complex problems”., August 21, 2000 ByTurgay BUGDACIGIL (Istanbul, Turkey) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) “This book is a product of applying systems thinking to the management and organization of enterprises”. Russel L. Ackoff writes, “therefore, an understanding of the …
Afghanistan: Special Comment. Longtime Readers know that NightWatch has had a continuing project to monitor the security situation in Afghanistan since mid-2006, using a consistent sample of unclassified reporting. In 2006, when the Taliban resurgence was just beginning, NightWatch began publishing monthly summaries of the security situation. In the past three years, the number of …
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