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2009/10/232010/09/03

Handbook: Harvard on Congress & Intelligence

Confrontation or Collaboration? Congress and the Intelligence Community Memorandum, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School July 2009 Authors: Eric Rosenbach, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Aki J. Peritz CONTENTS Click any of the links below to read and download the individual memos online. You can …

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2009/10/222009/10/22

Journal: Marijuana Will Be Legalized

Prohibition Fighter As a Harvard grad, former Princeton professor, and the son of a respected rabbi, Ethan Nadelmann might seem like an unlikely advocate for legalizing marijuana. But when you meet him, it all makes a lot of sense. David Lyons, Newsweek, 15 October 2009 The idea is not that drugs are good but that prohibition is …

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2009/10/202010/07/23

1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology

Phi Beta Iota: This started as a short list for the various college and university engineering students that have dialed in, but as we got into it, it became more of a “situational awareness” inventory pulling together both technical “solutions” none of which have been integrated yet, and analytic “requirements” none of which have been …

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2009/10/202011/10/22

Journal: Design Thinking for Government

What a great search phrase! Thank you. KEY POINT: Design is not just about physical structures, but about relationships as well as ideas. Will Durant has a great deal to say about this in Philosophy and the Social Problem. KEY POINT: Information is the means by which we harmonize understanding of the threats, sustainable consensus …

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2009/10/20

Journal: True Cost of Electricity

Report tallies hidden energy costs The average retail cost of U.S. coal-fired electricity was 9 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2007 (the most recent year for which data are available). But there are health and environmental costs of that power that consumers don’t pay, at least as part of their electric bill. According to a new …

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2009/10/20

Journal: America’s Shame, Obama’s Failure

Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty Revised formula puts number of poor people at 47.4 million — 7 million more than official rate A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government’s official figure. …

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2009/10/202009/10/20

Journal: Multinational Operations 101

Italian Troops Denied Access To Intelligence Reports, Minister Says Richard Owen TimesOnline (UK) October 20, 2009 Italy is denied full access to intelligence assessments in Afghanistan, a restriction that affects its troops’ ability to operate safely and hampers allied co-ordination, the Italian Foreign Minister said yesterday. The lack of co-ordination and pooled intelligence between Nato …

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