The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Aging porn stars….too funny. Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That’s Changing By Jennifer Peters at VICE.com EXTRACT The traditional intelligence agencies are a lot like the old-school porn industry: they’re still trying to make and sell porn like it’s 1979, even though a lot of what they’re selling is just hanging out …
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Only fifteen years after Abe Lederman said the same thing at OSS! The solutions to all our problems may be buried in PDFs that nobody reads What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world’s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, somewhere nobody will ever …
Jessica Auchter 5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Extraordinary — a Pioneering Book — Builds on Others But Original and Compelling It Its Own Right, April 27, 2014 I took an interest in books on trauma and dealing with refugees a month or so ago, and this is one of the books that I included …
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PDF (132 Pages): Australian Army Reading Phi Beta Iota: The primary problem we have with such lists is that they short-change intelligence with integrity. Still today intelligence is a tiny fraction of the course of instruction at any Command & Staff or War College. War — and the cost of war — are not understood …
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An Interesting Afternoon – The world in 50 years and how do we get there? April 11 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm [Amsterdam] We are happy to announce this event which is all about future studies. We bring together state-of-the-art future studies and projects, futurist thinkers and book authors. If you are into future …
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Open Source and the Global Brain 1. Information reflecting facts, perceptions, and knowledge (which I will call data) exists in many forms and places throughout the world. Much of it is NOT protected by government classification or even by other deliberate efforts to prevent its availability to others who actively seek it out. I will …
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SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Reform Security sector reform and advancement begins in the mind. In the 21st Century, raw information and tailored intelligence (decision support) are fundamental to progress at the strategic, operational, tactical, and technical levels. If we are to properly address intelligence governance from a comparative and international perspective rooted in an appreciation for the …
