The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Unusually interesting article. Some aspects of problem I was aware. Disagree with several of proposed fixes. Understand Air Force has had some success with running an open bid system on upcoming assignments. An Army Of None Why the Pentagon is failing to keep its best and brightest. Tim Kane ForeignPolicy.com, January 10, 2013 As the …
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Andrew Robertson and Steve Olson (eds.) 4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent First Step, Four Disappointments, January 2, 2013 This is one of the more useful reports to come out of the US Institute of Peace and its collaborative effort with the National Academy of Engineering and I highly recommend it for either free reading …
Rodrique Tremblay 5.0 out of 5 stars Humanist Manifesto Slams Religions, Foundation for Reflection, December 22, 2012 I bought this book on the recommendation of Pierre Cloutier in Quebec, and very deliberately as the first book to read on 22 December 2012 as Epoch B begins (see graphic above with book cover). Across the entire …
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As we proved in Vietnam, and are about to prove again in Afghanistan, you can win most battles in a tactical sense but still lose a war at the far more decisive strategic and grand-strategic levels of conflict. (Grand strategy is explained here.) Israel’s grand strategy is to establish a Greater Israeli Apartheid State (by annexing …
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NOW AVAILABLE AT AMAZON Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels 5.0 out of 5 stars Influential, Integrative, with Integrity, Avoids Three Core Topics December 6, 2012 Here’s what is really great about this book: 01) The authors are connected, admired, and conversant with the great minds of Silicon Valley (Eric Schmidt offers a very strong blurb) …
Open education has at least three components: free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time). More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous. Open education has …
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