The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power Geopolitical Weekly Stratfor Editor’s Note: The following Geopolitical Weekly originally ran in January 2013. By George Friedman When I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe, I received a great deal of feedback. Europeans agreed that this is the core problem while Americans argued that the United States …
It’s all about I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y. Younger military veterans are angered by budget cuts to their pension benefits By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post, December 30 After 25 years of service, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lt. Col. Stephen Preston retired from the Army and began collecting a pension of nearly $55,000 a year. The money made it possible …
Bryan Alexander takes off from Jane Hart’s personal knowledge management routine to describe his own method of handling information overload, which he calls “information wrangling.” He works through channels and sources daily, reflects, and shares. Alexander details each of these processes in his blog. Bryan Alexander My daily info-wrangling routine Jane Hart describes her daily …
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Tough love, this is. Lessons Learned from a 22 Year Fight: 01 Steele’s biggest mistake was in not ensuring OSS conference presentations were indexed in Conference Proceedings. Core value of presentation at International Studies Association (Intelligence) is that papers presented there are indexed and visible. 02 International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, American Intelligence Review, …
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Only four percent complete massive open online courses: setback or growing pains? Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have relatively few active users, and user engagement falls off dramatically, especially after the first one to two weeks weeks of a course. Ultimately, only a handful of users persist to the course end. That’s the gist of …
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Crucial Adventures in Systems Thinking Systems are everywhere. They shape us and we can, do, and should shape them. Our destiny is tied up with them but they are pretty invisible. In this essay I explore some useful systems dynamics and perspectives and share two essays by others exploring the same vast territory in search …
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Huh? Do You Trust the Washington Post‘s Sources on Morale at the NSA? Former officials insist that employees are upset because President Obama hasn’t visited to show his support. Conor Friedersdorf Reuters via The Atlantic, Dec 10 2013, 8:20 AM ET A strange Washington Post story gives readers the impression that morale is low at …
