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2013/05/22

Mini-Me: End Hunger, 3D Printed Food — GMO on Steroids, Toxins Free

Huh? NASA-funded research The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food Christopher Mims Quartz, 21 May 2013 Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six …

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2013/05/192013/05/19

Poor Richard: PeerPoint – Open P2P Proposal

PeerPoint An Open P2P Requirements Definition and Design Specification Proposal Google Doc created June 6, 2012 Last updated October 19, 2012 PeerPoint shares a vision of “Sovereign Computing”: “To be the true owner of your information and of your computer’s hardware resources, as well as to share these things in any way you want and …

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2013/05/192013/05/19

Penguin: Marines Poison Their Own for Decades

Force protection? Not at Camp Lejuene. Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply May 18, 8:24 PM (ET) By ALLEN G. BREED, MICHAEL BIESECKER and MARTHA WAGGONER CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) – A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many …

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2013/05/192013/05/19

SchwartzReport: Religious Treason within US Military

This is what I mean by the Theocratic Right’s aggressive program to convert armed services personnel. Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army colonel, and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on …

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2013/05/182013/05/18

References: NATO Transformation Process Documents — and Gaps + Peace from Above RECAP

Connected Forces Initiative (latest NATO HQ initiative, should prioritize future ACT work, currently under initial study) After 2014, NATO is expected to shift its emphasis from operational engagement to operational preparedness. This means NATO will need to remain capable of performing its core tasks – described in its Strategic Concept¹ – and of maintaining its …

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2013/05/152016/03/26

Reflections on Alternative Command & Control and Four Transformation Forcing Concepts

I have been reflecting on the past twenty years, and the remarkable resistence of the US Intelligence Community, seemingly impervious to all manner of reform recommendations, be they presidential, congressional, or public. Reform is not transformation. This from Dr. Russell Ackoff, a pioneer in systems thinking and reflexive practice: Reformations and transformations are not the …

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2013/05/152013/05/15

Review (Guest): Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia

Robert Peckham Book Description April 2, 2013 Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treatment of disease among indigenous populations as well as European residents. It shows that colonial medicine was not at all homogeneous “on the ground” but …

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