Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …

Yoda: Zionist Motivations for Assassinating JFK – the Archives

From 2014 now circulating in conservative patriotic circles. DOJ Files Prove President Kennedy & Robert Kennedy fighting Zionists When Murdered These fascinating historical documents were released on June 10, 2008 under a Freedom of Information Act. I have in bold critical information during President Kennedy’s fight to the death to get the Jewish Lobby registered …

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part II in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele DOC (37 Pages): EIN 7FV42 ERAP Steele Vol 2 Global Reality …

Yoda: Death to Elsevier & Thomson Reuters — Academic Information Breaks Free…

Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website. John Bohannon, Science, 28 April 2016 To read a 2011 paper in Applied Mathematics and Computation, Rahimi would have to pay the publisher, Elsevier, $28. A 2015 paper in Operations Research, published by the U.S.-based company INFORMS, would cost …

Stephen E. Arnold: Finding Books — the Failure of Amazon, Google, and Commercial Catalogs — Findability Zero…

Finding Books: Not Much Has Changed Three or four years ago I described what I called “the book findability” problem. The audience was a group of confident executives trying to squeeze money from an old school commercial database model. Here’s how the commercial databases worked in 1979. . . . . . . What the …

Review: The People’s Advocate – The Life and Legal History of America’s Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer [Danny Sheehan]

Danny Sheehan 6 Stars on Substance, Revolutionary Illumination, February 20, 2014 This is a book for smart people who care about the Constitution, the Republic, and America the Beautiful — the America of good people with big hearts and strong souls who do the best they can while trapped amidst a complex of corrupt systems …