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About the IdeaNIGHTWATCH Headlines: All About China
UncategorizedChina-Taiwan: For the record. Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration (CGA) will conduct a maritime rescue drill the week of 13 September with China's Maritime Search and Rescue Center, Taiwanese Central News Agency reported 10 September. The drill will be held in waters off southeastern China, between Taiwan's Kinmen Island and Xiamen, China.
Taiwan's CGA will send nine patrol boats, including a 500-ton patrol vessel, and helicopters to Kinmen. All participating ships and rescue teams will carry flags that symbolize the joint drill, CGA officials said, in an attempt to avoid territorial disputes.
NIGHTWATCH Comment: The drill will be the first time the two coastal patrol agencies will have held joint exercises.
Japan-China: The captain of a Chinese fishing boat was taken to a Japanese court on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on 10 September. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi demanded the “immediate and unconditional” release of the captain and other crewmembers, according to news relays.
South Korea-US: A US Defense Department spokesman announced today, 10 September, that the aircraft carrier USS George Washington will participate with South Korea in war games in international waters of the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula. The US spokesman said the deployment is not aimed at challenging China, but is a warning to North Korea.
Burma (Myanmar)-China: The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has begun construction of China-Myanmar oil and natural gas pipelines, according to Chinese media. The announcement coincided with a ground-breaking ceremony for a 200,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Anning city, Yunnan Province, China.
Reference: US Military Aid Increases Instability
White PapersBike, Corey. and Donoso, Juan. “Domestic Instability and US Military Aid: Doing More Harm Than Good?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 Online <PDF>. 2010-09-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p99929_index.html>
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this study we seek to capture a deeper relationship between US military aid and the levels of violence in the world, what we term as āinstability.ā
Key sentence: This confirms the notion that as conflicts arise the US acts in a manner of sending military more military assistance purportedly to lend a helping hand. But as table 1a describes, with more military assistance the US actually exacerbates the conflict.
Journal: WIRED–Earth Hits Strike Two
Earth IntelligenceMass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution
EXTRACT:Ā Enough pieces have come together for Alroy to speculate on his findingsā implication for the future, given that Earth is now experiencing another mass extinction. Starting with extinctions of large land animals more than 50,000 years ago that continued as modern humans proliferated around the globe, and picking up pace in the Agricultural and Industrial ages, current extinction rates are far beyond levels capable of unraveling entire food webs in coming centuries. Ecologists estimate that between 50 and 90 percent of all species are doomed without profound changes in human resource use.
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9 Environmental Boundaries We Donāt Want to Cross
EXTRACT:Ā Ā Also exceeded are limits for species loss, which the scientists set at 10 per year per million species, and nitrogen use, pegged at 35 million tons per year. The current extinction rate is ten times higher than advised, ostensibly compromising the ability of ecosystems to process nutrients. The use of nitrogen ā which is needed for fertilizer, but causes oxygen-choking algae blooms ā is nearly four times higher than recommended.
CounterPunch on Defense & Economy
03 EconomyWhat Did the Pentagon Do With That Extra Trillion Dollars?
The Surge in Defense Spending
By WINSLOW T. WHEELER
EXTRACT:Ā Finally, that $102 billion efficiency drive being pursued by Secretary Gates is over five years. The current Pentagon budget plan is to spend $3.245 Trillion over that period. In other words, the much touted Gates plan would shift from overhead to hardware just 3 percent of the planned spending.
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The Angelides Commission Squints Back at the Bank Bailout and the Fall of Lehman
Does Our Economy Really Have to Run on Fraud?
By MICHAEL HUDSON
EXTRACT: Given todayās florid emotionalism when it comes to discussing Wall Street finances, it hardly is surprising that the Angelides hearings do not dare venture into such territory as to ask whether the bottom 90 per cent of the U.S. economy might need to be bailed out with debt relief just as Wall Streetās elites were.
Worth a Look: Pierre Levy Interviewed by Howard Rheingold on Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence, IO Sense-Making, Worth A Look
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For my book in progress on social media literacies, I talked to Pierre LĆ©vy about his specialty, collective intelligence.
Journal: 21st Century Management–New Rules
5 Star, Best Practices in Management, Leadership
The Leader's Guide to Radical Management
Steve Denning: re-inventing the workplace for the 21st Century: innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight
The biggest difference between 20th and 21st Century Management
Management in the 20th Century was about achieving a finite goal: delivering goods and services, to make money.
Management in the 21st Century is about the infinite goal of delighting customers; the firm makes money, yes, but as a consequence of the delight that it creates for customers, not as the goal.
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A radical new management model for twenty-first century leaders
Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating in client-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicating interactively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management.
- Author outlines the basic seven principles of continuous innovation
- The book describes more than seventy supporting practices
- Denning offers a rethinking of management from first principles
