The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Watson with its Head in the Cloud IBM’s Watson is proceeding to the cloud. Apparently, though, the journey is proving more challenging than expected. The Register reports, “IBM’s Watson-as-a-Cloud: Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No, it’s Another Mainframe.” Writer Jack Clark peers through the marketing hype, maintaining that Watson does not translate …
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PHI BETA IOTA ALERT: This is one of the most thoughtful, poetic, and inspiring commentaries we have every posted. Kudos to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman for finding it. Please do click through and read every word. The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies Truthdig, 26 January 2014 EXTRACTS: We must develop …
This a “three-fer” on leadership and officership. It provides some theory (from a Naval Special Warfare perspective), a media summary of how too many of our senior officers are not getting it right, and one officer’s list of historical anecdotes when it was done right. * The headliner, ADM McRaven’s speech to USMA Class of 2015 500th Night, …
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Flipping the corruption myth Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South John Hickel Al Jazeera, 1 February 2014 Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow …
The US IC has spent 1.2 trillion dollars since 1992 — and failed to provide ethical evidence-based decision-support capable of influencing tens of trillions more. This waste has to be understood in the context of a leadership (both intelligence and political) focused moving money, not actually in the business of producing decision-support or making decisions …
Michel Bauwens on the democratization of the means of monetization In this new work, Michel continues to propose powerful ideas that not only demonstrate his capacity for synthesis, but more importantly, his capacity to articulate ideas that facilitate points of convergence between broad sectors that are sympathetic to the ideas of production based on the …
From blog.p2pfoundation.net – January 22, 7:57 PM Peru, where currently only some 66% of the population has access to electricity, will install solar panels in a National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program for 500,000 of the poorest households. The project, which was kicked off recently in Contumaza province with the installation of some 1600 solar panels, will eventually …
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