The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What do the MICC, the Collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the Financial Meltdown Have in Common? I strongly recommend that readers study carefully the attached article by Janine Wedel. She analyzes the emergence of self-organizing government – industry networks in the post communist states and then compares these structures to the very similar emergence of …
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Fort Hood: A First Test for Twitter Lists In the aftermath of violence, lists suggest the benefits of collaboration By Megan Garber In the immediate aftermath of the shootings, news outlets from The New York Times to The Huffington Post to The Today Show created lists that aggregated the Twitter feeds of, among others, national …
Phi Beta Iota: Speaking to the World Affairs Council on 6 November 2009, Admiral Dennis Blair, USN (Ret), now the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), offered up a faint-praise indictment of a national intelligence community that is pedestrian and mis-directed. Drawing on Global Trends 2025 and the National Intelligence Strategy, both of which are lacking …
I am a Professor of Technological Innovation in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and am also a Professor in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division. I specialize in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. I also develop and teach about practical methods that individuals, open user communities, and firms can …
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Editors Did Great, Could Have Gone Extra Mile October 31, 2009 Zhao Ziyang Most people miss the two bottom lines that I found engaging: 1. China’s government is a screwed up bureaucracy with petty egos just like ours. 2. China produced moderate pragmatist Premier Zhao Ziyang, promoted him, and empowered him. With all due respect …
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Net set for ‘language shake-up’ By Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News The internet is on the brink of the “biggest change” to its working “since it was invented 40 years ago”, the net regulator Icann has said. The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters.
Conops for genocide prevention. The master work on this topic is by John Heidenrich, the first and last true employee of OSS.Net, Inc. at the time finishing his book,How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen while also doing the daily Genocide Report for the Department of State (until the …
