The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Single Best Book on Content, Visuals, and Price August 26, 2010 Maggie Black and Jannet King This is one of twelve books on Water that I have read or am reading, expecting to get through all of them in the near term. In comparison to the other works, this is the single best book when …
Top of the Fives, A Bold Departure Elegantly Executed August 25, 2010 Erik Assadourian et al I’ve become someone jaundiced about the State of the World series, while always respecting the persistence of Lester Brown (Peter Drucker called people like us “mono-maniacs” essential as change agents), but this one knocked me off my seat just …
Dr. John N. Warfield (1925-2009) was emeritus professor and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS) at George Mason University. He has been elected President of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (formerly …
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Defense News August 23, 2010 Experts: DoD Could Have Prevented WikiLeaks Leak By William Matthews While senior Pentagon officials resort to bluster in hopes of preventing the WikiLeaks website from posting any more secret Afghan war documents on the Internet, security experts say there is a lot the U.S. military could have done to prevent …
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eKrishok Farmers wise up online by Nahid Akhter (Aug 20, 2010) (clipped from full article) Bangladeshi farmers have to go through numerous hardships. Natural calamities cannot be avoided. However, if the farmer knew when to expect one and thereby take appropriate preventive measures, maybe some of his crops could be saved. Besides natural calamities, he …
UPDATE of 22 Aug 2010 to add Viral Video (John Pourdehnad) that started the dialog. Ackoff Virtual Inqiry Center (AVIC) There is a discussion underway at Systems Community of Inquiry focused on developing the concepts for a network of Ackoff Virtual Inqiry Centers (AVIC) located around the world. Early on, the original vision for AVIC, …
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Below is updated information followed by the original response. With the permission of Robert Horn, a co-founder of Earth Intelligence Network and also the “owner” of the term “information mapping,” we have posted his seminal work in easy to download and exploit segments: Reference: Mapping Hypertext (1989) Latest example of Robert Horn’s work: Reference: Sustainable …
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