The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
economicprincipals.com March 27, 2011, David Warsh, Proprietor A Recent Exercise in Nation-Building by Some Harvard Boys It was worth a smile at breakfast that morning in February 2006, a scrap of social currency to take out into the world. Michael Porter, the Harvard Business School management guru, had grown famous offering competitive strategies to firms, …
The world is assembled along the lines of certain logics. Human organisations are also outcomes of such logics. Some organisations are assembled following the logic of the “cathedral”. Other organisations are assembled following the logic of the “bazaar”. Cathedrals are organised as military-inspired command hierarchies. Superior humans give orders, which must be executed by subordinate …
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From the inventors of McNamara’s electronic line (which failed spectacularly in Vietnam) comes the Electronic Coup/Revolution Predictor (EC/RP)! This is explained below in the attached Wired report. The EC/RP is merely the latest effort in DARPA’s continuing campaign to overthrow Boyd’s Law* (i.e., Machines don’t fight war wars, people do, and they use their minds) by …
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Burning Man’s open source cell phone system could help save the world Solar-powered OpenBTS systems costs pennies a day and operates in the farthest outreaches of Earth. By Julie Bort, Network World August 30, 2010 02:47 PM ET Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular network …
Franklin D. Kramer (Editor), Stuart H. Starr (Editor), Larry Wentz (Editor) Read Macgregor & Steele for the Other Half January 1, 2011 I like the book and I like the authors and I do NOT like the fact that neither decision-support nor intelligence (decision-support) nor M4IS2* are in this book. Retired Reader’s review–at five stars–is …
30 December 2010 Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears (BBC) The WikiLeaks War on America (Commentary) The Dark Side of Wikileaks (Atlanta Post) Assange: I’ll reveal info that will spark Arab world coups (YNETNews) Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA (CBSNews) WikiLeaks founder vows to release all files in case of death or …
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