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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
 Silicon.com Plans to attack globalization in India...
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Wired. Ideas on how to upgrade the intelligence world by a former intel officer. This is something I support. The government needs to recognize that the best national security analysts don't work for them or the beltway bandits.
The first step toward reform: Encourage blogging on Intelink. When I Google "Afghanistan blog" on the public Internet, I find 1.1 million entries and tons of useful information. But on Intelink there are no blogs. Imagine if the experts in every intelligence field were turned loose - all that's needed is some cheap software. It's not far-fetched to picture a top-secret CIA blog about al Qaeda, with postings from Navy Intelligence and the FBI, among others. Leave the bureaucratic infighting to the agency heads. Give good analysts good tools, and they'll deliver outstanding results. And why not tap the brainpower of the blogosphere as well? The intelligence community does a terrible job of looking outside itself for information. From journalists to academics and even educated amateurs - there are thousands of people who would be interested and willing to help.
9:12:39 AM
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CSM. The ham handed Russian approach to Chechnya ensures the control of the state in the region will continue to decline. "Maskhadov's death doesn't mean a final victory for the regime. The war will continue, but power will shift to the more extreme wing of the Chechen rebel movement."
9:06:11 AM
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At the very time that the entrepreneurial renewal of American society is at its most critical, the rentiers have taken control. An extension to the protections on intellectual property, the harshening of the bankruptcy process, the removal of social safety net protections, and rampant healthcare inflation all work to slow entrepreneurial activity. Everyone who has started a company on a credit card and a dream will understand how the environment has changed. Today's society is increasingly focused on the protection of those that already have money (and accelerate their gains via a reduction in taxes) and not those that want to create a venture to earn it.
7:33:58 AM
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© Copyright 2005 John Robb.
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