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2015/09/232015/09/21

Berto Jongman: Is Climate Change Australia’s Greatest National Security Issue?

Why climate change is Australia’s greatest national security issue They were given 13 threats or potential threats to consider: adverse global trends and challenges to the international system; terrorism and piracy; instability and failed or failing states; poverty, inequality, and poor governance; serious and organised crime; WMD proliferation; climate change; civil emergencies, including natural disasters …

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2015/09/172015/09/16

Yoda: Syria’s Assad on US Blindness — US Realizing Syria Must Stand? Republican Candidates Blow It…

Syria’s Assad blasts U.S.’ “willful blindness” in fight against ISIS Assad said the U.S., which has been leading a coalition that is carrying out airstrikes on ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq, refuses to work and coordinate with his government. For the U.S. officials, “if they cooperate with the Syrian army, this is like recognition …

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2015/09/072015/09/13

Robert Steele: Open Power Electoral Reform — Open Letter to Tom Steyer with Proposed Action Plan for Re-Asserting Public Sovereignty

MEMORANDUM Subject: Electoral Reform Possibilities in 2015 for 2016 UPDATE 2: Refined after second meeting of electoral reform activists. Full Text & Downloadable Document Below the Fold

2015/09/072015/09/07

Nafeez Ahmed: UN Sustainability Plan Doomed

The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which seek to end poverty and hunger while creating sustainable societies, look like great news at first glance. But a report circulated to UN officials argues that the entire SDG process has been “fundamentally compromised” by powerful corporations with …

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2015/08/252015/08/25

Mongoose: VICE – Spy Agencies are Like Old Porn

Aging porn stars….too funny. Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That’s Changing By Jennifer Peters at VICE.com EXTRACT The traditional intelligence agencies are a lot like the old-school porn industry: they’re still trying to make and sell porn like it’s 1979, even though a lot of what they’re selling is just hanging out …

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2015/08/222015/08/21

Yoda: One Intelligence Database — A Snapshot of Possibilities and of Failure

Try harder, must we. The FBI Built a Database That Can Catch Serial Rapists—and Almost Nobody Uses It For roughly 30 years the FBI has virtually ignored a system meant to help cops track the behavioral patterns of violent criminals.

2015/07/292016/03/26

Reflections on Peter Drucker from the Grave

#bigideas I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the …

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