The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. .
The 12 Ideas with Links to Each Sub-Story and Comment
We found four of the ideas to be truly radical.
The rest, including 12, Overhaul the Pentagon, are smoke and mirrors in the absence of a total make-over of the relationship among citizens, information, and how money is allocated in society.
Both of these graphics were created for the eight-minute presentation on Real-Time Intelligence that can be viewed by clicking on either graphic (as always, words in Notes).
Twitter is, like most intelligence environments, a very large garbage pit with some potential.
The NYPD now does monitor Twitter and cross-walks anomalous events against Twitter plotted on Trends.
Twitter can also be used to reach a specific individual at a specific time and place, or to harness the dispersed population to observe and report specific conditions or tangible things.
CBS replaying National Review Online
Victor Davis Hanson
23 September 2009
If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. The president, you see, thinks America is a university and that he is our campus president. Keep that in mind, and almost everything else makes sense.
Many of the former Professor Obama's problems so far hinge on his administration's inability to judge public opinion, its own self-righteous sense of self, its non-stop sermonizing, and its suspicion of sincere dissent. In other words, the United States is now a campus, we are the students, and Obama is our university president.
Continue reading “Journal: Barack Obama, College Administrator”
Under the direction of maestro Stephen E. Arnold, and in support of two extraordinary companies, Somat Engineering represented by its CEO, G “Ram” Ramanujam and it Washington DC Director Arpan Patel; and Adhere Solutions represented by its co-founder Jim Orris, a 15-slide 8-minute presentation was crafted to address Real Time Information and its injection into decision systems.
YouTube (8:19) CHANGE 2010 (National Press Club) Real-Time Intelligence
PPT: RTI Steele FINAL 15 Slides 8 Minutes
Prior Post of Full Event, Other Speakers: Event Report CORRECTED LINKS: Responding to Real Time Information, Open Systems and the Obama IT Vision [Google-Microsoft Meld]
Hot Topics
AA: Ahmadinejad: Military will ‘cut off' hand of enemies 09/22/09
AA: Europe must stand up for Georgia 09/21/09
AA: Hearings on Armenian-Turkish issue commence shortly 09/18/09
AA: NATO, US & Russia could join forces on missile defense 09/18/09
AM: Armenia's President awarded military ranks 09/18/09
BG: War of words in Bulgarian judiciary escalates 09/21/09
DE: We need Germany far more than it needs us 09/22/09
HR: FT: Croatia Hopes in Vain to Capitalize on Bulgaria, Romania Poor … 09/19/09
IL: Israel's ‘prisoners of conscience' 09/23/09
IL: No war imminent with Hezbollah, Israeli commander says 09/21/09
KV: Kosovo official predicts higher Serb turnout in November 09/22/09
RU: Kalashnikov faces bankruptcy 09/21/09
BELOW THE FOLD: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime
Continue reading “EUCOM Week in Review Ending 23 September 2009”
What is this?
The Conscience Un-Conference is a one-day “un-conference” co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It will be held on Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 8:30am to 5:30pm at the Museum in Washington, DC.
Who should apply for this free event (advance registration required)?
Anyone with energy and interest in how “institutions of conscience” use social media to serve missions of social good. We’re hoping for a diverse group of people with a range of experiences—that is, you don’t have to be an expert in museums, libraries, non-profits, or social media. Techie geeks, luddites and everyone in between are welcome to apply.
To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan by Nicholas Schmidle Henry Holt, 254 pp., $25.00
Follow the Frog to the full article with Chuck Spinney's highlights, nine pages in an easily downloaded document.
Highlights as we read them:
1) Massiviely fraudulent election in Afghanistan;
2) Military situation going from bad to worse for US and the (virtually non-existent) Afghan Army and Police;
3) Pakistan keeping 80% of its troops on the border with India;
4) Pakistan refusing to rein in its one really disciplined jihadist group that keeps attacking India (Mumbia plus).
