NIGHTWATCH: Sunni-Shi’ite Side-by-Side in Bahrein

Bahrain: The King of Bahrain appeared on television to announce an investigation into the deaths of two protesters killed in clashes with security forces, during the past two days of demonstrations. King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa said, “There have sadly been two deaths. I express my deep condolences to their families.” He also promised …

Assisi-Rome 2nd Meeting

The first meeting, in Assisi on Saturday 22 January 2011, was off the record.  The letter is in the Franciscan Order’s hands.  The third meeting, with a major trans-Europe foundation, is off the record until the Secretary-General obtains approval to proceed with broad dissemination of the letter. The second meeting, arranged by Sergio Germani, was …

Robert Garigue: Security Services versus IT Processes

Robert Garigue was focusing only on the “technical” side of the matter.  The above divide is compounded (made exponentially worse) by the divide between cyber-services and human end-users.  To the best of our knowledge, no one has done a full-up functional requirements survey since 1986, and we still do not have the eighteen CATALYST functionalities …