The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The internet is slipping away into commercial control. Here is an event to explore what are the alternatives for a people-owned internet … Platform Cooperativism A coming-out party for the cooperative Internet On November 13 and 14, the New School in New York City will host a coming-out party for the cooperative Internet, built of …
The perfect storm is brewing. Former Salt Lake City mayor sues Bush administration, NSA for spying The former mayor of Salt Lake City is suing former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Agency for spying on the city during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
#bigideas I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the …
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Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note. Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
Modernizing Analytical Training for the 21st Century Senior US intelligence leaders are starting to doubt whether ‘experts’ are the best forecasters of emerging risks. Regina Joseph, however, has other culprits in mind. Familiar cultural and bureaucratic obstacles may be more to blame for the foresight training and analysis problems intelligence agencies face today.
Open Education, efficiency, collaboration and management Ben Janssen [has] made an interesting remark, as Ben often does. In his view, Open Education is not only a public good, but can also be used as a communication channel. As he stated: “in my work as an external consultant I often find that departments within an organization are …
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The below two headlines should give the 1% great pause. ISIS: Western Journalist Embedded With Group Says He Came Into Contact With Americans Reporter who spent ten days with ISIS says the West ‘has no concept’ of how dangerous the group is and says they want to ‘kill all non-believers and enslave their children’
