The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The OSS Shield was originally developed for the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (Command) but the LtGen commanding the parent command both hated the center (despite it’s being the Commandant’s initiative) and had no sense of heraldry. E Veritate Potens is the motto, “From Truth, Power,” with a tip of the hat for the correct translation …
We keep an eye on what folks’s are searching for; this posting is inspired by one such search. Use Contact Page or comments section to engage–we respond to all contacts or comments within 24 hours. First, use the menu–there will be overlap! Best Practices in Management (52) Change & Innovation (60) Complexity & Resilience (45) …
by Matthew M. Aid. Bloomsbury, 423 pp., $30.00 REVIEW BY James Bamford The New York Review of Books (5 November 2009) Pre-released in The Huffington Post (Full Review Here) Bamford on Detail, Steele on Impact–Solid Five Stars October 17, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: James Bamford is without peer in his understanding of the NSA. He …
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Excellent Primer, Narrowly Focused, Provokes Reflection October 16, 2009 Richard Heinberg I was tempted to limit this book to four stars because it fails to properly recognize, among many others, Buckminster Fuller, e.g. his Critical Path and it provides only passing reference to such foundation works as Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update and Human …
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We pay careful attention to the search terms used by those who visit us, and have noticed a very healthy focus on strategy and on secrecy. The two are incompatible. Strategy, by its inherent nature, must be holistic, transparent, and sustainable. It demands broad collaboration and the broadest possible information-sharing and sense-making. Secrecy, by its …
15,000 Affected By Intelligence Community Server Shutdown Atlantic POLITICS Oct 8 2009, 9:53 am Marc Ambinder EXTRACT: A CIA analyst who works on open source projects with state and local law enforcement officials said that uGov provided the only secure way to provide them with critical homeland security information. Several Defense Intelligence Agency employees wrote …
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NOT for the General Reader, Get Cool It Instead October 8, 2009 Bjorn Lomborg (Editor) I was among those who considered Lomborg discredited when he produced The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, and I now retract two thirds of my rejection in light of The Resilient Earth: Science, Global Warming and …
