Chuck Spinney: How Hot is Hot? Case Study in Government Misrepresentation

Below is a very important 2 part analysis of the meaning of the recent heat wave in the US and and the nature of reported temperature increases in general, and whether or not they can be attributed to increases in CO2 concentrations. The author, John Christy, is a highly regarded climatologist, albeit a skeptical one. …

Reflections on United Nations Intelligence & Counterintelligence

Your Aide Memoire came to my attention today.  Apart from wishing you every success, I thought to contribute a few ideas. 01  The new meme that has replaced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — I taught this to 90 countries including all NATO/PfP and six UN missions in Lebanon — is M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain …

Stephen E. Arnold: From Bad Search to Predictive Analytics Snake Oil

From Search to Prediction  The economic vise is closing on some search and content processing vendors. There are some significant repositioning’s underway. We are working on three at this time, and, believe me, the vendors are doing more than changing the color of the logo. As we work on our projects, we have been aware …

20120718 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything TWITTER HASH: #openall ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012 All Opens Below Line .  Also Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost

Carnegie Council Competitive Ethics Just Business: Two Interviews on Competitive Intelligence – Richard Horowitz and Cynthia Cheng Correia

Two Interviews on Competitive Intelligence – Richard Horowitz and Cynthia Cheng Correia Carnegie Council Competitive Ethics Just Business July 3, 2012 JULIA TAYLOR KENNEDY: Welcome to Just Business. I’m Julia Taylor Kennedy. Thomas Jefferson once said, “I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.” One field that …

Review (Guest): Where Did the Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free-energy Technology on 9/11

Judy Wood How the Towers turned to dust April 1, 2011 By Alan S. Glassman I am delighted to finally see Dr. Judy Wood’s book about the disintegration of New York’s World Trade Center Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, appear in print. It has been a long time coming but well worth the wait. …