The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Friday Rant: Spend Management Snake Oil October 23, 2009 Jason Busch During his talk, Jim suggested that snake oil purveyors in the supply risk market fall into a number of categories, including “existing vendors with incomplete or partial solutions (spun as the real-deal), market information packaged and resold as real-time intelligence (which it’s not), dashboards …
What a great search phrase! Thank you. KEY POINT: Design is not just about physical structures, but about relationships as well as ideas. Will Durant has a great deal to say about this in Philosophy and the Social Problem. KEY POINT: Information is the means by which we harmonize understanding of the threats, sustainable consensus …
In Its Niche Beyond a Six–In Larger Context a Four October 11, 2009 Roger Martin First off, what got me to buy this book does not appear in the book at all–the author on record as saying that Wall Street was not designed to make money for its investors, only for its mandarins–the same is …
Beyond Six Stars–a Manifesto for Liberty September 5, 2009 John Taylor Gatto This book shocked me, and while I am not easily shocked, in shocking me made me realize how even my own radical outlook (as Howard Zinn notes, a radical is someone who no longer believes government is part of the solution) has come …
Hot Topics AA: AFRICOM: Western Self-Serving Interests or African Security? 08/21/09 AA: Islamists, US policy and Arab democracy 08/21/09 AA: Trans-Sahara gas pipeline will be risky 08/21/09 CD: DRC: There is indescribable fear in everyones eyes 08/21/09 DZ: China warns its citizens in Algeria 08/19/09 ER: UN report on Eritrea’s aid to insurgents in Somalia …
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In an era when changes to the Earth that used to take 10,000 years now take three; In an era when all information in all languages all the time is the non-negotiable first step to achieving holistic understanding of the Earth’s system of systems as well as all the chaotic sub-systems; In an era when …
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Protection Rackets By Christopher Dickey | Newsweek Web Exclusive Jul 31, 2009 In Afghanistan, Americans should deploy Pvt. Social Worker and Maj. Sociologist. PBI: The conclusion first: “You have to learn to discriminate if you’re going to win,” said Villalobos. “And in Afghanistan, that’s the problem. You don’t know how to do that. You don’t speak …
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