The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: China, India lock horns over Kashmir 10/02/09 AU: O’Connor faces crime cash showdown 10/01/09 CN: China maps an end to the Afghan war10/01/09 CN: SCENARIOS: Key forces shaping China’s long-term future 10/01/09 KP: NKorea looks to unconventional warfare: US general 09/29/09 LK: Defending the defenders of Sri Lanka 09/29/09 LK: UN Urges …
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SNAP ANALYSIS: New world economic order takes shape at G20 By Lesley Wroughton Fri Sep 25, 2009 PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Group of 20 is set to become the premier coordinating body on global economic issues, reflecting a new world economic order in which emerging market countries like China are much more relevant, according to …
There are at least two organized gangs in cloud computing, with several more emerging in the wings. This is a first cut at what we have in play. Below the fold are a list of members of the Infrastructure 2.0 Gang and the Cloud Connect Gang, followed by a number of headlines from 2007 to …
Six Star Special September 20, 2009 Paul Polack This book is a “beyond five stars” book and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog where I can do things Amazon does not provide for, including reader access to my 1400+ non-fiction reviews via any of 100 different categories. This single …
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A Theological Masterpiece–A Practical Manifesto September 20, 2009 Barbara Marx Hubbard Although the author has written a more recent book, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, the later book is focused on helping the individual, while the book being reviewed focuses on the larger matter of social engineering. I was growing up in Asia …
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A Las Vegas Illusion Roger Martin is Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto Pre-order his forthcoming book In response to the question: What does Wall Street have to change to produce better leaders, a different culture and a more long-term focus? Forget about it. Don’t even waste time thinking …
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Phi Beta Iota: Admiral Dennis Blair, USN (Ret) has signed off on the 2009 update and revision of the National Intelligence Strategy of 2005, and on balance we give it a solid C with the observation that there is no “break-out” in this documents. (Continued below the fold–A for school solution, F for real-world need, …
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