The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Description: A hot linked and annotated list of social search systems. Feature text below: One of the first steps in Strategic Social Networking is to know where to look for information from social systems. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo include content from high-profile social content sources like Facebook. Here at SSN, we need to look for …
Adequacy of Aid. Foreign Food Aid Trickles Into Haiti’s Black Market (New York Times, 4 Feb 10). PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Blocks from where U.S. and U.N. soldiers distribute sacks of rice to Haitian women in earthquake-shattered Port-au-Prince, street vendors are openly selling rice by the cup from bags stamped with U.S. flags. . . . …
Afghanistan: Lurching Toward Defeat In Afghanistan Wall Street Journal Cyber-Security: Report Details Hacks Targeting Google, Others Cyber-Security: Google To Enlist NSA To Ward Off Attacks Washington Post Cyber-Security: Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits Strategy Future Conflict Future Character of Conflict Strategy Green Paper: Defence Green paper 2010. Strategy Trends UK Global Strategic Trends Edition …
Aid organizations are announcing with great pride that they will feed two million over the new two weeks. What they don’t say is that is 143,000 a day–assuming best case circumstances, sucks for those they don’t reach in the last ten days of those fourteen days—the last day of which will be roughly thirty days …
Phi Beta Iota: The problem with IBM, apart from its ignoring the threat from Google, is that it still tries to create proprietary and single-point solutions. IBM is a great company with smart people–they are going to have to be compelling to move into the Open Source Triad (Software, Intelligence, Spectrum) by smarter citizens who …
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Pentagon Shifts Its Strategy To Small-Scale Warfare By August Cole and Yochi J. Dreazen Wall Street Journal January 30, 2010 Pg. 4 The shift in strategy sets up potential conflicts with defense contractors and powerful lawmakers uneasy with the Pentagon’s growing focus on smaller-scale, guerilla warfare. In particular, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has come to …
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NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: How Hugo Chavez’s revolution crumbled 01/24/10 AA: Time to Stop Ignoring Chávez 01/25/10 AR: Argentina’s Redrado Denies Threat To Reveal Dollar Lists-Lawyer 01/26/10 BO: Violence and democracy in Bolivia 01/26/10 BR: Brazil starts beefing …
