The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Superb Overview and Update As of 2007 August 27, 2010 Maude Barlow I now realize that this book is a sequel to Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water and I will read and review that book next. First off, am really starting to pay attention to Right Livelihood, …
Open Sourcing U.S. Intelligence Needs By Curt Hopkins / August 24, 2010 5:10 PM / 6 Comments Open Source Closed Before you get excited about joining “the OpenSource.gov community to get access to the latest open source reporting and analysis,” you should know . . . you can’t. The OSC is open only to U.S. …
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HealthMap.org Public website bringing together disparate data sources to achieve a unified view of the current global state of infectious diseases. Comment: Idea = add mobile alerts based on location, making the alerts more relevant to those closer to the outbreaks. Related: + Biosurveillance (and the twitter feed) + Praecipio International | An Institute for …
http://pakistan.resource-finder.appspot.com This is a good idea/resource that needs a great deal of additional information and mobile SMS access. Thanks to those posting at the Ushahidi Twitter feed Related: + Epidemic advisory situation report + Crisis Commons Wiki on Pakistan Floods + Sahana Foundation Flood Response Resources + Pakreport.org + Crisis mappers + Praecipio International | …
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If the search is intended to find Steele’s quote on the relative cost of HUMINT in comparison to all other (technical) INTs, the best search is on Google for <pdf steele HUMINT “fraction of the cost”>. If you are looking for the Joe Markowitz’ slide on relative cost versus satisfaction of the various INTs, from …
On Aug 9, 2010, Wired carried the below chart of the evolution of Taliban attacks between 2004 and 2009. This chart was constructed from the now notorious Wikileaks data base by Drew Conway, a graduate student at NYU, using the open source statistical analysis program known as “R.” Below these I provide three historical charts, …
Older Version of Updated Book Now Being Offered on Amazon August 9, 2010 David Perkins I was on the verge of buying this book when I realized that the author has a number of new books out, including Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education, which I have bought and will …
