The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Number of Security Clearances Soars September 20th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood The number of persons who held security clearances for access to classified information last year exceeded 4.2 million — far more than previously estimated — according to a new intelligence community report to Congress (pdf). The report, which was required by the FY2010 intelligence …
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Pankaj Ghemawat 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Nuanced, Brilliant, the Stuff of Nobel Laureates,September 15, 2011 This is a nuanced book. It is not possible to “review” it without having actually read it, read it carefully, and then read it again. It was easily a five as I got into it, and then …
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EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …
Norman Cousins Brilliant Detailed Exposure of Power Killing Intelligence, July 30, 2011 This is a new edition of the book, and so very timely. If I had the money to give one book to every American, this would be it, followed by TYRANNICIDE The Story of the Second American Revolution and my all time God …
Christopher Schaefer (PhD), gives us both a short essay below recommending two books, and at the link, a five-page essay, “Mind the Gap: Wealth Disparities, the Deficit, and our Economic Future.” CREATING COMMON WEALTH Christopher Schaefer It is now clear that the present global economic crisis is also a political and moral crisis raising fundamental …
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Thomas R. Flannagan, Kenneth C. Bausch 2011 Workbook 49 Problems, 10 Clusters, & Software,July 22, 2011 This is a very reasonably priced workbook that can also be purchased in bulk (presumably at the standard 50% discount) from the publisher, and I certainly do recommend it as a toolkit for any level–undergraduate to postgraduate to professional–discussion …
Harold Jarche » Network Learning: Working Smarter At its core, network learning is a way to deal with an ever-increasing amount of digital information. It requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. Each worker needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating information for later retrieval. Source: www.jarche.com Network Learning: …
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