The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
When a system is so slosh with money that it does not know what its costs are, it is time to take serious action. But what do you do when no one cares? The US Air Force misreports, even to itself (and to Congress and OSD), the cost to operate and support its own aircraft. …
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Claire Danes, Mike Jackson, Christopher Monger Six Stars & Beyond–A Mind-Altering Cinematographic Phenomenon, September 8, 2011 I bought this on the recommendation of a reader-reviewer at Amazon, shortly after I reviewed A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness. Normally I defer to other reviewers for something like this, and just do …
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Mark Zuckerberg Social networking is at “an inflection point,” Zuckerberg said. “When you think about what social networking meant for the last five or seven years, since Facebook has been around, the narrative has mostly been around connecting people,” he said. “Until the last couple of years, most people really had open questions about whether …
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UPDATE 30 June to add link to Notes on, and Video of George Soros and Aryeh Neier discussing the theme. See also his full essay online with comment: George Soros Nails It: Intelligence with Integrity Chuck Sudetic 6 Star Special–Soros Out-Grows Broken System, June 24, 2011 On its own merits, without the Foreword from George …
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5 May Uber and Intersect usher in a transformational pivot in assumptions Uber is a cool new car service that Jenna Wortham recently wrote about in this article for The New York Times. Intersect is an equivalently cool new site that for all practical purposes is the opposite of Twitter that is all based on …
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How to build a national cellular wireless network for £50m It’s easy when all your customers are machines By Bill Ray • Get more from this author Posted in Mobile, 22nd April 2011 08:00 GMT Free whitepaper – The realities of SaaS and security A team of 20 developers in Cambridge wants to build a new …
