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DeM Banter: Important piece here...need to ponder for a couple of days... great question at the end..."And if the future of power lies in disruption and interference, not management and consolidation, can we expect to ever know stability again..." Time to think different... things have shifted...we are just now beginning to comprehend and maybe understand. …
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DeM Banter: so it would appear...not much has changed since leaving "The Building" in 2010 (been out of this game for a good while, so I really don't know). This was our "portfolio" in the J5...and trying to get the interagency to work, and it seems it definitely can...but it needs a system that will …
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DeM Banter: Options? Sequester Iran? Not sure the world is getting any safer... Wall Street Journal March 2, 2013 Pg. 13 The Weekend Interview Veteran weapons inspector Olli Heinonen on how the U.N.'s 'Stockholm Syndrome' has aided Tehran's drive for the bomb--and why an unsettling secret may be lurking in the Iranian desert. Cambridge, Mass.--It …
DeM Banter: always good to check international news sources (although their spelling is a tad off). Interesting times call for interesting solutions...status quo stopped working several years ago... Financial Times March 1, 2013 Pg. 8 Chuck Hagel's biggest problem will be Congress It is hardly the ideal moment to become US defence secretary. At midnight …
“The bad news is, time flies, the good news is, you’re the pilot.” Orrin Woodward Intentionality is a philosophical concept defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs." The terminology of 'intentionality' can also be confusing, …
DeM Banter: Another side of an eight sided story? Truth or more spin? Interesting points...more research required on my part. Reuters.com February 28, 2013 The sequestration drama in Washington is less severe and intractable than you have heard. A partial solution: Block the across-the-board cut of $42.5 billion in military funds this year — the …
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