INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI

Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas David Balaban Privacy PC, April 2-8, 2013 PART I  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas This section open with Mr. Steele’s thoughts on CIA and CIA IT. PART II:  Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas. Part 2 This section of …

Tom Atlee: State Banks, Debt Renunciation, Other Populist Cures

Dear friends, Below is an excellent summary of a very high leverage economic system change opportunity – state banks.  A single example already exists in the U.S:  the little-known but revolutionary state-owned Bank of North Dakota. State banks simultaneously address the problems of unemployment, lack of financial resources for state and local governments (including rising …

Reflections on Information Pathologies & Organizational Intelligence — Why Predictive Analytics on Industrial Era Data is Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Coherent, the Force is…. Restrictive Control and Information Pathologies in Organizations Wolfgang Scholl* Humboldt-University, Berlin Although the relation of power to knowledge is an often discussed theme, a psychological and sociological scrutiny of the issue is lacking. A new conceptual and theoretical approach to this issue is presented here that distingushes between restrictive and promotive …

Worth a Look: Books on Open Source

2013 Bazzell, Michael (2013).  Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information.  CreateSpace. 4.0 out of 5 stars A Useful Contribution–See the Table of Contents January 30, 2013 Garbutt, John (2013). Building an OpenStack Cloud: From zero to the cloud with open source technologies.  O’Reilly Media. Publication Date: August 22, 2013 There …

Reference: US IC Global Water Security Study

2012 Global Water Security, US IC 2 February Assumptions: We assume that water management technologies will mature along present rates andthat no far-reaching improvements will develop and be deployed over the next 30 years. In addition, for several states, we assume that present water policies—pricing and investments in infrastructure—are unlikely to change significantly. Cultural norms …

Berto Jongman: The State of Intelligence Studies

The 4-day International Studies Association (ISA) conference is coming up in San Francisco in less than a month….3-6 April 2013….with the current status of Intelligence Studies Section panels copied below FYI…. Intelligence Studies Section Panels at ISA 2013 3-6 April 2013 in San Francisco, California