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Penguin: Open Source Venture Capital, Conference, Seeking to Develop Sustainable Business Models

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A Conference to Find Viable Business Models to Commercialize Open Source Software

Organizers of the Open Core Summit – which took part this month at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco – announced the COSS (Commercial Open-Source Software) Platform.

The goal of this initiative is to help commercial open-source organizations develop viable business models. “We want to educate, grow, fund and connect leaders of COSS companies,” as explained to IBL News by Joseph Jacks, founder of OSS Capital, a venture-capital firm who put together the Open Core Summit.

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Caitlin Johnstone: CIA, Climate, & Conspiracy – More Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix

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CIA, Climate And Conspiracy: More Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Never call anyone from the CIA a “whistleblower” unless they are actually whistleblowing on the CIA, without the CIA’s permission, in a way that inconveniences the CIA.

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J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans – Week 38 – A Quick Review

Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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American Gray Swans – Week 38 – A Quick Review

As many now know the Gray Swans are an adaptation of Nassim Taleb’s famous theory on a Black Swan Event. A Black Swan is an unpredictable event that is catastrophic – a game changer. Most famous was 911. The world changed that day and virtually none of us had a plan for it.

A Gray Swan is a predictable event that is catastrophic. Unfortunately there is some quirk in human psychology that seems to ignore the inevitable. Catastrophes that are predictable yet we do not do anything about planning for them? Let us sit like ignorant “sitting ducks” and wait for a Gray Swan to land.

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American Greatness: Post-Truth Politicized Education — the End of the American Experiment?

Cultural Intelligence
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Living in a Post-Truth World

Post-truth people in the media were taught that the concept of truth is obsolete. Postmodernism rules on American campuses today, and a core idea of the postmodernists is that claims to truth are meaningless.

Politics is Crowding Out Culture and Childhood

The realm of practical politics is eminently a realm of conflict, if not hatred. It crowds out culture. It relegates the human things to the last remaining cubicles of privacy, but even these are invaded by social media.

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Yoda: Global Warming Fraud – Top Japanese Calls It…

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Top-Level Climate Modeler Spills the Beans on the ‘Nonsense’ of ‘Global Warming Crisis’

Dr. Mototaka Nakamura, author of the book, Confessions of a Climate Scientist: the Global Warming Hypothesis Is an Unproven Hypothesis, is a top-level oceanographer and meteorologist who is calling “Nonsense!” on the models that underpin the global-warming hoax.

Other gross model simplifications include

1)    Ignorance about large and small-scale ocean dynamics

2)     A complete lack of meaningful representations of aerosol changes that generate clouds [PBI: this refers to geoengineering, a crime against humanity]

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Review: Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Donald E. Vandergriff

5 Star, Leadership
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Donald E. Vandergriff, Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture (Naval Institute Press, 2019)

5 Star Potentially Epic – Could Turn US Military Into an Effective Force

Reviewed by Robert David Steele

I met the author through Col Dr. Doug Macgregor, USA (Ret), whose various books, but most recently and especially Margin of Victory, set the gold standard for strategic thinking. Just as Margin of Victory makes the point that wars are won or lost ten to twenty years before they are fought, by the good or bad decisions made in longer-term strategy, acquisition, and training (e.g. tracks versus wheels, integrated versus stove-piped), so also can this book by Maj Don Vandergriff, USA (Ret) be said to be a 20-years and out war winner (or war loser if you ignore it).

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