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2009/12/11

Worth a Look: Field To Market–The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture

Field To Market is a diverse alliance working to create opportunities across the agricultural supply chain for continuous improvements in productivity, environmental quality, and human well-being. The group provides collaborative leadership that is engaged in industry-wide dialogue, grounded in science, and open to the full range of technology choices. The Fieldprint Calculator is an educational …

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2009/12/112011/10/22

Journal: Wall Street & the Obama Administration

Chuck Spinney sends…. Obama’s Big Sellout The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway MATT TAIBBI Rolling Stone Dec 09, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: We include the entire article below to share Chuck Spinney’s value-added highlights. See the original article without highlights by …

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2009/12/07

PACOM Week in Review Ending 6 Dec 09

Hot Topics AA: Australia in 82 billion dollar LNG deal with Japan 12/06/09 AA: India downplays China’s grouse 12/05/09 AA: Uighurs flee China, seek asylum in Cambodia – exile group 12/06/09 BD: Arrest of wanted terrorist in Bangladesh to be verified 12/01/09 CN: China police chief warns of unrest; Internet testing control 12/01/09 IN: GM …

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2009/12/072009/12/07

Journal: US Navy Right Idea Wrong Level

The U.S. Navy Builds An MMOG December 6, 2009: The U.S. Navy is looking for a game development company to bid on a project to help create a multiplayer game for training and brainstorming. What they want initially is a feasibility study on the creation of a ” Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the …

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2009/12/072009/12/07

Journal: DARPA & MIT Discover “Share the Wealth”

On Saturday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency set out to learn how quickly people could use online social networks to solve a problem of national scope. The answer: 8 hours 56 minutes, at least when said problem involves $40,000 and a bunch of red balloons. The winning team was spearheaded by Riley Crane, a …

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2009/12/032009/12/03

Search: Intelligence Community Wheel

To the left is the traditional intelligence wheel, consisting of the 16 or so (there are other elements not listed) entities that in theory comprise the predominantly secret U.S. Intelligence Community. Below is the emergent intelligence wheel that harnesses all human minds in relation to all information all the time. We still need spies and …

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2009/12/032009/12/05

Journal: Notes on David Kilcullen to US IC

David Kilcullen spoke to NCTC and ODNI on Dec 2, unclassified, and spent a good deal of time talking about good and bad ways to measure counter-insurgency. His remarks are at a level below the “global police action against the jihadist criminal conspiracy” (how Bacevich characterized on morning NPR interview, Dec 3). Kilcullen is now …

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