The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The U.S. Army continues to be one of the most thoughtful of the services. Below is a superb list of responsibilities associated with the protection of civilians. Where the list goes wrong is in assuming that the military will have a major responsibility across all these elements. In fact US thinking continues to be severely …
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence. The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC: Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL: Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …
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Secrecy and National Security Whistleblowing Daniel Ellsberg on January 8, 2013 [Originally published in Social Research] I) Reflections on Secret-keeping and Identity In the “national security” area of the government–the White House, the departments of state and defense, the armed services and the “intelligence community,” along with their contractors–there is less whistleblowing than in other …
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Jim Wallis 5.0 out of 5 stars TImely — Relevant to 2014 and 2016, March 29, 2013 God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It is in my view the better book, here is the first sentence from my review of that book in 2005: “Jim Wallis has my …
Doug Rushkoff 5.0 out of 5 stars Rich Manifesto for Humanity — Hit Pause, Do NOT Let IT Fry Your Brain, March 21, 2013 In some ways this book picks up from Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway but it has its own structure …
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How We’re Applying the Sharing Economy to Education By Andrew Grauer A sustainable economy requires that both the supply and demand sides benefit from a transaction. In education, we see so many inefficiencies between those supplying the knowledge and those consuming it. Teachers feel like they’re being underpaid and students feel like they are overpaying …
