The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is not a new organization. It is a new goal for every organization. Signup to stay informed or help out… The first phase of Four Years Go will roll out in Feb 2010. Below the Fold: complete explicatory email from Tom Atlee, America’s seer for co-intelligence and revolutionary activism. Skip letter (bad idea–multiple links …
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Good intentions gone wrong Too many aid organizations and an inept government have created a chaotic relief effort in Haiti “The aid machinery currently at work in Haiti keeps too much for overhead for its operations, and still relies overmuch on NGOs or contractors who do not observe the ground rules we would need to …
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Speak the Truth, Lose the Anger, Be Part of the Whole February 10, 2010 Jack Hawley It took me fifty years to recognize the deficiencies of the command and control or top down elite-dominated model of governance, and to discover the spiritual and practical integrity of collective intelligence, openness, appreciative inquirty, deliberative public dilaog, and …
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Establishment Unsheathes the Long knives in Versailles??????? America: A fearsome foursome (Financial Times) By Edward Luce Financial Times Published: February 3 2010 20:09 Phi Beta Iota: The Financial Times is retarded (yes, the R-word, used with love) and has not yet caught up to the fact that required registrations are so TIRED. We provide the …
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“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …
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Very interesting. Below are a couple of links to top pieces on the scope triangle, search appreciated. A Project Management Primer: Basic Principles – Scope Triangle The “Broken Iron Triangle” Software Development Anti-pattern Phi Beta Iota: The Scope Triangle is desperately out of date. The two new major factors are first: the role that intelligence …
The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources that its decision makers create for themselves, even when budgets are at the highest levels since the end of WWII. The F-35 …
