The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Press Release WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 – The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available …
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Clandestine Operations 101 Here’s how to create a clandestine service that is not the laughing stock of the planet: 00 Stop confusing secure field operations with any need for access to official secrets. The primary reason CIA is such a mess is the ascendance of security ignorance and myopia combined with sedentary overly fearful managers …
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Phi Beta Iota: This is one of the most elegant trenchant discussions we have seen on the imperatives for arriving at collective intelligence through open methods. The entire contribution is below the line. Debating the Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the Power Law: Knowing Networks as an alternative to scale-free networks Franco Iacomella, 2nd May …
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Huh? NIGHTWATCH Mali-US: For the record. US Africa Command announced that on 20 April three US soldiers and three civilians died in an automobile crash in Bamako. One was from the Army’s intelligence and security command and two were from special forces – Special Operations Command. The civilians were not identified, but almost certainly were …
How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. One of the great goals of computer science is to embed human-like intelligence in common applications like image processing, robotic control and so on. Until recently the focus has been to develop an artificial …
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Groofer Social Search, Bookmarking and Reader Groofer makes finding and sharing online information easier. Instead of having to visit multiple web sites, Groofer let’s you and your team share search results and links directly from your browser so that they can be discussed and archived as needed. You can also subscribe to, read and discuss …
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Briefing as Presented 31 March 2012 to the Washington Academy of Sciences 22 Slides PDF 1MB words in Notes format, as delivered. Steele at WAS on Reflexivity 1 MB SHORT URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/WAS-Steele Abstract & Full Text Brief Online Below UPDATED 23 April 2014 to add new references with analytic and technical thrust.
