Public Intelligence Blog – Page 3761 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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PORT OF SPAIN — The true cost of fighting climate change will top 300 billion dollars and developed countries may balk at footing the bill, Guyana's Prime Minister Bharrat Jagdeo said Saturday.

Leading economists have calculated that “the cost of action and mitigation would be about one percent of the global economy,” he told journalists. “This is one percent of the GDP of a 30-trillion-dollar global economy,” he estimated.

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2009/11/302009/12/02

Review: The Vanishing of a Species? A Look at Modern Man’s Predicament by a Geologist (Hardcover)

5 Star, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Consciousness & Social IQ, Culture, Research, Economics, Education (General), Education (Universities), Environment (Problems), Future, History, Survival & Sustainment, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution

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Posthumous Reflections of Extraordinary Value

November 30, 2009

Peter Gretener

QUOTES:

“The system has had it.”

“Environmental science–or engineering–is at best a misnomer and at worst a fraud.” This author, like the author of The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Change” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? anticipate ClimateGate and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) being a totally dishonest organization.

“We need all the brainpower we can get.”

“Any human revolution must be preceded by an intellectual revitalization.”

“Education is an integrated concept. Thus a truly educated person has integrity.”

“The enemy in achieving a global solution is the fragmentation of knowledge. The interdisciplinary dialog is a step toward addressing this fragmentation.”

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Journal: $20M water desalination project in Iraq

12 Water

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Adding to installations in Oman and Egypt, India’s Shivsu Canadian Clear says its new plant in Baghdad is expected to convert 20 million liters per day.

The company’s Vice President Satish Kumar told the Cleantech Group today that the Iraq installation uses reverse osmosis to convert seawater into potable water that has industrial and drinking water purposes. Kumar said the desalination technology builds on other installations the company has made around the world, with improved wall paneling inside the containerized system so that it can withstand different environments.

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AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 30 Nov 09

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AA: Mercenary Mann says South Africa backed coup plot 11/29/09

AA: Are SA mercenaries assisting Guinea's military junta? 11/26/09

AO: Angola: Armed forces reiterate support for public health services 11/26/09

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NA: Namibia begins vote count 11/28/09

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SO: Two journalists released in Somalia 11/25/09

ZA: Zimbabwean refugees face crime, harassment in South Africa 11/27/09

Below the Fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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2009/11/302010/09/03

Handbook: 12 Traits of Sustainable Communities

HUMINT, Stabilization

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This is UNDER CONSTRUCTION but still useful to intelligence analysts thinking about stabilization & reconstruction, and when combined with our revolution preconditions matrix, can inform Strategic Communications as well as Information Operations (IO). Notice the emphasis on identifying INDICATORS, in political science this is called “operationalization” and serves to connect outcomes with indicators with data to be observed and evaluated.

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Search: matrix for sustainable communities

03 Environmental Degradation, Searches

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Leadership Matrix Institute

This comes up in connection with communities seeking to achieve sustainable lviing, both as communities (residents) and governments (municipalities.

Twelve Traits

Two versions of the 12 Traits of Sustainable Communities are available, one abbreviated, one in-depth. Reach both via the logo. The second is a 22-page handbook (on its way to 500 pages) from June 2009 that is so cool we are making it a Handbook. These ideas scale globally.

Critical Thinking for Sustainable Community Decision-Making (5 pages)

7 slides.

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Reference: Are Hackers Pioneers with the Right Stuff or Criminal Pathological Scum? Mitch Kabay Reprises

03 Economy, 04 Education, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Hacking, ICT-IT, InfoOps (IO), Law Enforcement, Media Reports, Methods & Process, Mobile, Real Time, Technologies

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Why Criminal Hackers Must Not Be Rewarded
Part 1: The Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
By M. E. Kabay, 11/30/2009

In 1995, I participated in a debate with distinguished security expert Robert D. Steele, a vigorous proponent of open-source intelligence. We discussed the advisability of hiring criminal hackers. Perhaps readers will find the polemic I published back then of interest today. I’m sure it will provoke vitriolic comments from the criminal hacker community.

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