The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Strike Two on “Just Following Orders” Defense David Isenberg Author, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq Posted: September 9, 2010 04:28 PM To paraphrase Yogi Berra it’s déjà vu all over again for KBR. In my Aug. 31 post I wrote about a significant pro-veteran ruling in the Oregon KBR Qarmat Ali litigation. This …
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We’re re-thinking the entire site, but for the time being this is as good as it gets. USE THE MIDDLE COLUMN. To see ONLY events, click on Events in the middle column. Similarly to see only Journal click there, only reviews, click there. WordPress is reverse chronological in nature, so you automatically get the most …
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This is Gartner’s latest. It comes as we are thinking about the convergence among software, hardware, and services companies, all trying to stovepipe their clients, none of them trying to help their clients actually do multinational eight-tribe information-sharing and sense-making. Then there is the complete absence of visionaries, at least that Gartner has noticed or …
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Visualizing Global Population Growth Hans Rosling Posted: Sep 4, 2010 The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display …
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September 2, 2010 Remind Me Again Why We Pay the Intelligence Bureaucracy? Posted by Karen Kwiatkowski on September 2, 2010 06:48 PM This detailed geo-statistical analysis entitled “The Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs 2004-2009″ has been published, not much more than a month after Wikileaks made available to the …
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Unorthodox thinking is essential to overcoming the most persistent challenges in global health. Vaccines were first developed over 200 years ago because revolutionary thinkers took an entirely new approach to preventing disease. Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide …
Five actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in August 2010, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch, released today. The situation in Somalia continued to deteriorate as al-Shabaab stepped up its attacks and fighting intensified in Mogadishu. Late in the month the militant …
